New geographies . SUROPE 187 dreds of years ago wars were very fre-quent, — much more so than now, Peo-s. ortheirqnar- P^^ especially those whoreis separate were not Separated eitherby water or by mountains,often quarreled with one another, wentto war, and finally set up different gov-ernments. What countries do yoii findon the map that do not seem to be cutoff from their neighbors, on all sides,either by water or by mountains ? Australia, it is the smallest of all thecontinents. The whole of Europe isonly a little larger than the UnitedStates, including Alaska. Yet it con-tains five times as
New geographies . SUROPE 187 dreds of years ago wars were very fre-quent, — much more so than now, Peo-s. ortheirqnar- P^^ especially those whoreis separate were not Separated eitherby water or by mountains,often quarreled with one another, wentto war, and finally set up different gov-ernments. What countries do yoii findon the map that do not seem to be cutoff from their neighbors, on all sides,either by water or by mountains ? Australia, it is the smallest of all thecontinents. The whole of Europe isonly a little larger than the UnitedStates, including Alaska. Yet it con-tains five times as many inhabitantsas our country. This makes it plainthat Europe is much more thickly set-tled than the United States. „ „ ?J . !? 1 /? ^0^ Europe is In spite 01 the fact that the leading Europe is so small, it is really continentthe most important of all the Fig. 234. —The lofty Alps, from whose summits the snow never melts. Many people visit this placeevery summer because of the grand scenery. There was a time when there weremany more countries in Europe thannow, but in recent years many of thesmaller divisions have been shows that people are learning tolive together more peaceably than they once of lu^* Although Europe is calledrope a continent, it is really very small to be given that name. Next to In the first place, it is the mothercontinent for the New World, becauseAmerica has been settled by i. The motherimmigrants from Europe continent(Fig. 235). What different countries ofEurope first settled North America(p. 101)? SouthAmerica() ? Pointout these countries on the map of Eu-rope. What country of Europe stillholds about half of North America as its 188 WORLD GEOGRAPHY colony. Europe is the mother continentfor other parts of the world, also, as youwill learn later. While Europe is the mother continentfo
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