4-0 2 The National Geographic Magazine 



I REMAINDER OF THE WORLD. 



♦27 



♦19,000,000,000 



850.000.000 



750, 000, 000 



18,000,000 



♦2,750,000,000 



LAND AREA COMMERCE COMMERCE HA1IJWAUS 



(square mile*) C^ 11 * 



AREA, POPULATION, RAILROADS, TELEGRAPHS, AND COMMERCE OF THE ORIENT, COMPARED WITH REMAINDER OF THE 'WORLD. 



The Growth of the World During the Nineteenth Century 



ing a crop on some favorable shore, 

 after which they passed on and com- 

 pleted their round of commercial trans- 

 actions. But even these adverse condi- 

 tions did not deter the Occident from 

 continuing its trade with the Orient, 

 and as the Occident expanded still far- 

 ther to the west trade grew and the area 

 of commerce expanded until the tin of 

 the British Isles, the amber of the Bal- 

 tic, the silver of Spain, and the purple 



cloths, the glass, and other manufact- 

 ures of Tyre and Sidon became a part 

 of the commerce which the Phoenicians 

 and Carthagenians carried to the Ori- 

 ent. 



The establishment of governments 

 over the great area east of the Mediter- 

 ranean encouraged the development of 

 commerce. The Persian Empire, with 

 its satrap system of government, its 

 post-roads, and the metallic currency 



