The New Childrens Encyclopedia

Life in Africa LANDSCAPE Africa contains a huge variety of landscapes, from snow-capped mountains to baking deserts. Northern Af ...

FARMING About 60 percent of African workers are subsistence farmers, farming their own land and growing crops such as barley, ca ...

Europe Unlike many of the other continents, Europe is not a separate landmass—it is joined to Asia. Europe’s eastern boundary is ...

143 Aalborg Arkhangel’sk Bergen Bilbao Bordeaux Groznyy le Havre Lille Manchester Murmansk Nantes Palma Simferopol’ Stavanger Ta ...

Life in Europe Europe is only slightly bigger than the United States, but has more than twice the US population. It is also crow ...

LIFE IN EUROPE MUSIC Europe is the birthplace of classical music, opera, and the modern orchestra. These styles of music were pe ...

Arabian Peninsula Gulfo fAd en Black Sea Caspian Sea The Gulf R e d S e a Socotra (to Yemen) A F R I C A IRAQ IRAN BAHRAIN ISRAE ...

147 Lake Balkhash Lake Baikal S i b e r i a Takla Makan Desert Plateau of Tibet Tha rD eser t Inner Mo ng oli a Ka m ch at ka Go ...

Life in Asia Asia contains just about everything—great wealth and extreme poverty, modern ways and ancient traditions, empty des ...

149 TECHNOLOGY Japan is a world leader in manufacturing televisions, music players, game consoles, cameras, and other electronic ...

Australasia and Oceania The region known as Australasia includes the countries of Australia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea. ...

NEW ZEALAND is one of the most isolated countries in the world. It is about 1,250 miles (2,000 km) away from its nearest neighbo ...

Life in Australasia and Oceania This region was one of the last parts of the world to be settled by people. The Maori, for examp ...

153 4 One of the world’s most deadly spiders, the Sydney funnel-web, lives in Australia. Its bite could kill, but, luckily an an ...

World flags Every country in the world has its own flag. Countries use flags to highlight their identity. AUSTRALIA AND THE PACI ...

ASIA ■ Religion: the flags of many European countries feature the Christian cross; the flags of many Islamic countries are based ...

156 CULTURE The world’s most popular religion, Christianity, has more than 2.1 billion followers. The Lascaux cave paintings in ...

157 The first Hollywood film studio was set up in an old tavern in 1911. The world’s oldest dance form is belly dancing. The ide ...

158 World religions A religion is a set of beliefs that explain where the world came from, what happens after death, and how we ...

WORLD RELIGIONS 159  THE SUPPER AT EMMAUS This stained glass window shows Jesus, having risen from the dead, sharing a meal wit ...