. Europe and other continents . Fig. American Indians. 74 GENERAL GEOGRAPHY civilized people, although their standard of civilizationdiffers from that of the white race. Caucasians. — By far the largest and most civilized ofthe four divisions of mankind is the white or Caucasian. Fig. ladies. race, which numbers about seven hundred and seventymillion. Their original home is not known. Some be-lieve it to have been in the plateau of central Asia, othersin the northern part of Africa. With the dawn of his-tory the white peoples of Europe were mostly barbarians; THE HUMAN RAC
. Europe and other continents . Fig. American Indians. 74 GENERAL GEOGRAPHY civilized people, although their standard of civilizationdiffers from that of the white race. Caucasians. — By far the largest and most civilized ofthe four divisions of mankind is the white or Caucasian. Fig. ladies. race, which numbers about seven hundred and seventymillion. Their original home is not known. Some be-lieve it to have been in the plateau of central Asia, othersin the northern part of Africa. With the dawn of his-tory the white peoples of Europe were mostly barbarians; THE HUMAN RACE 75 but civilization had begun to develop in southern and west-ern Asia and along the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. At present the white race occupies most of Europe,North-and South America, Australia, and large portionsof Asia and Africa. Itis the most widely dis-tributed of the four di-visions (Fig. 60). Be-sides Europeans () it includes theEgyptians, Arabs, andAbyssinians of Africa ;also the Arabs, Persians,Armenians, Afghans, andHindus of Asia (). While for variousreasons the Caucasiansdiffer greatly in charac-teristics, two mainbranches are recognized :(1) the fair type (), with florid complex-ion, light brown, flaxen, or red hair, blue or gray eyes, and
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