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1. Europe is the second smallest continent with roughly 4 million square miles.
===2. Europe is designated as a continent for political reasons. There is no geographic basis for the claim. ===

3. Europe is home to more than 700 million people, but birth rates are stagnant.
===4. Most scholars believe Europe was named after Europa, a Phoenician Princess in Greek mythology. === ===5. The smallest country in Europe is the Vatican, which is considered a separate country from Italy even though it is in the middle of Rome. === ===6. The largest city in Europe is Paris with a population of just under 10 million people. === ===7. La Sapienza University in Rome is the largest university in Europe with a whopping 184,000 students. ===

9. The European Union has 25 country members.
===10. 80 to 90 percent of Europe was once covered in forest, but this has been reduced to 3 percent in Western Europe. ===

11. Europe has one of the lowest fertility rates in the world.
===12. Europe has been racked with war throughout its history to the point where more than 70 former countries have been conquered and no longer appear on maps. === ===13. The great Roman inventions so often cited by scholars actually were created by Etruscans, a small empire in the south of present day Italy. === ===14. The Dark Ages in Europe lasted from 476 to 1,000 A.D. or twice as long as the United States has been a country. ===

<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">15. The Renaissance followed this period and lasted roughly 200 years.
===<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">16. The first country to join the industrial revolution in Europe was Great Britain. === ===<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">17. The First World War lasted from 1914 to 1918 and resulted in four empires radically changing or dissolving completely: the German, Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman and the Russian. === ===<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">18. Adolf Hitler was not German. He was Austrian, born in the small town of Braunau am Inn. === ===<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">19. It is estimated that 62 million people died in World War II, 2.5 percent of the world’s population at that time. === ===<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">20. The 10 most generous countries in the world when it comes to charitable giving are all located in Europe. ===