Advanced Geography . Map of the Races. Total Population of the World CaucasianMongolianNegroMalay .AmericanMixed Eaces Christians .Buddhists .MohammedansBrahmanists .Jews ....Pagans and others 1,500,000,000 690,000,000 600,000,000 150,000,000 35,000,000 12,000,000 13,000,000 400,000,000500,000,000200,000,000150,000,0008,000,000242,000,000 THE MONGOLIAN OR YELLOW RACE. 103 88. The Mongolian or Yellow Race. Where is the home of the yellow race? Where is China? Japan? Siam? Anam? Siberia? See coloredmap of Asia on page 175. What great river basins of Asia slope to the Arctic ocean ? The Japanese
Advanced Geography . Map of the Races. Total Population of the World CaucasianMongolianNegroMalay .AmericanMixed Eaces Christians .Buddhists .MohammedansBrahmanists .Jews ....Pagans and others 1,500,000,000 690,000,000 600,000,000 150,000,000 35,000,000 12,000,000 13,000,000 400,000,000500,000,000200,000,000150,000,0008,000,000242,000,000 THE MONGOLIAN OR YELLOW RACE. 103 88. The Mongolian or Yellow Race. Where is the home of the yellow race? Where is China? Japan? Siam? Anam? Siberia? See coloredmap of Asia on page 175. What great river basins of Asia slope to the Arctic ocean ? The Japanese and the Chinese are famous for the weaving ofsilk and the making of porcelain. They have not yet learned thegreat value of coal, although there are coal beds in their people know very little about machinery for weaving clothor for making iron and steel goods. In the great empire of Chinathere are only a few miles of What large rivers ofAsia flow into borderseas along the Pacificcoast ? What race isfound in most parts ofthese basins ? The people of theyellow and the brownraces resemble oneanother. Most ofcoarse black hair, flat faces andshort skulls. The races differ slightly in color,in the slant of their eyes and insome other respects. The brownrace is perhaps a branch of the yel-low race. The American Indiansalso resemble somewhat the people of these twogroups. The yellow race is found in nearly all parts ofAsia, on the north and east of the great centralhighland. The home of this race reaches from theHimalaya mountains to the Arctic coast, and alsoincludes every river basin sloping to the Pacificcoast of Asia. Several centuries ago, the Chinese inventedprating and gunpowder, but for many years that nationha <\made little progress. The Japanese have made more pr ^ress than any other people of the yellow race. They The yellow race includes more than one third of theha fe good schools, and hav
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