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Mnemonics, Chinese and Peruvian method of, 76

Moabites, 117

Moawija, Caliph, 431

Mogul dynasty, 292, 433

Moluccas, 329

Monarchy, 323, 341, 347

Monasticism, 213, 236

Money, 114, 176, 201, 319

Mongol conquests, influence of, 298

Mongol Court, the, 299

Mongol Empire, 332

Mongolia, 197

Mongolian language, 108

Mongolian peoples, 72, 73, 88, 167, 197, 227, 232, 233 et seq., 245, 258, 287 et seq., 298, 320, 333, 400, 433

Mongoloid tribes, 69

Monkeys, 43, 45

Monotheism, 251. (See also Muhammad)

Monroe doctrine, 349, 389, 396, 423

Monroe, President, 349

Montesquieu, 371

Montgomery, 385

Month, the lunar, 68

Moon, the, 2, 3, 6, 8, 10, 68

Moorish paper-mills, 297

More, Sir Thomas, 365, 371

Morelly, 371

Morocco, 185, 398

Mortillet, 57

Moscow, 293, 434

Moscow, Grand Duke of, 290

Moses, 116

Moslem Empire, 253

Moslems, 297, 431, 432

Moslim, the, 253, 269, 271, 290

Mososaurs, 29

Moses, 23

Mounds, Neolithic, 70

Mountains, 197

Mozambique, 329

Muehlon, Herr, 424

Muhammad, prophet, 243, 247, 248 et seq., 270, 431

Muhammad II, Sultan, 292, 433

Mules, 102

Mummies, 70

Munitions, 412

Musk ox, 43

Mycalæ, battle of, 136, 430

Mycenæ, 92, 108

Mycerinus, 83

Mylæ, battle of, 181, 430


N

Nabonidus, 111, 112

Nankin, 173

Naples, 178, 350, 431

Napoleon Bonaparte, 345, 347, 348, 356, 434

Napoleon III, 390, 434, 435

Nasmyth, 359

Natal, 398

“National schools,” 369

Natural history, father of, 144

Natural Selection, theory of, 17

Nautilus, the pearly, 39

Navarino, battle of, 353, 434

Neanderthaler Man, 47, 48 et seq.

Nebraska, 383

Nebuchadnezzar II (the Great), 102, 110, 115, 429

Nebulæ, 4, 5

Necho II, 109, 110, 115, 122, 147, 429

Needles, bone, 57

Negroid tribes, 72, 88

Nelson, Horatio, 348

Neolithic age, 59, 65

Neolithic civilizations, primitive, 71 et seq.

Neptune (planet), 2, 3

Nero, 195, 430

Nestorian missionaries, 431. (Cf. Missionaries)

Netherlands, 259, 309, 351

Neustria, 431

Neva, 327

New Assyrian Empire, 97

New Atlantis, The, 322, 355

New England, 335, 337

New Mexico, 433

New Plymouth, 433

Newts, 24

New York, 358, 434

New Zealand, 322, 396, 405

Newfoundland, 405

Nicæa, 268, 270

Nicæa, Council of, 431

Nicephorus, Emperor, 432

Nicholas I, Tsar, 351, 390, 434

Nicholas II, Tsar, 416

Nickel, 360

Nicomedia, 227

Nieuw Amsterdam, 434. (Cf. New York)

Nile, 83, 100, 129, 398; valley 90, 429

Nile, battle of the, 434

Nineveh, 94, 97, 101, 109, 114, 243, 429, 431

Nippur, 78

Nirvana, 161

Nish, 227

Noah’s Ark, 91

Nogaret, Guillaume de, 284

Nomadic peoples, primitive, 84 et seq., (Cf. Nomads)

Nomads, 122, 155, 167, 168, 174, 198-200, 233-34, 245, 287, 334

Nonconformity, 307, 308

Nordic race, 72, 88, 104, 108, 134, 154, 155, 174, 178, 185, 197, 200, 233, 258, 261

Normandy, 263, 342, 432

Normandy, Duke of, 266

Normans, 263, 266, 279, 302

Northmen, 263, 264, 266, 268, 432

Norway, 306, 313, 432

Norwegians, 351

Novgorod, 294, 432

Nubians, 238

Numerals, Arabic, 282

Numidia, 191

Numidians, 182

Nuremberg, 294

Nuremberg, Peace of, 313


O

Ocean dredgings, deepest, 4

Ocean liners, 322, 336

Octavian. (See Augustus)

Odenathus of Palmyra, 431

Odoacer, 236, 431

Odyssey, 127

Ogdai Khan, 287, 289, 432

Oglethorpe, 336

Okapi, 397

“Old Man,” 372, 373

Old Testament, 115, 116

Olympiad, first, 176, 429

Olympian games, 131

Olympias, Queen, 146

Omar, Caliph, 431

Open-hearth process, 359

Orange River, 398

“Ordinance of secession,” 385

Oregon, 385

Organic Evolution, 16

Ormuz, 299

Orsini family, 284

Orthodoxy, 240

Osiris, 200, 210, 211

Ostrogoths, 227, 431

Othman, 432

Otho, 430

Otto I, King of Germany, 265, 432

Otto of Bavaria, Prince, 354

Ottoman Empire, 202. (See also Turkey, Turks)

Oudh, 394

Ownership, 373, 374, 375

Oxen, 49, 104, 112

Oxford, 295


P

Padua, 235

Pæstum, 176

Palæologus, Michael (Michael VIII), 283

Palæolithic age, 13, 59, 66 (note)

Palermo, 181

Palestine, 290, 299

Pamirs, 196, 300

Panama, 385

Panama, Isthmus of, 314

Pan Chau, 197, 430

Panipat, battle of, 433

Pannonia, 203, 229, 232, 234, 431

Papacy (including Popes), 237, 261, 265, 277 et seq., 329 et seq., 343

Papal schism (the Great Schism), 285, 394, 433

Paper, 153, 236, 255, 297, 320, 322

Papyrus, 78, 153

Parables, 216

Paradise Lost, 129

Parchment, 153

Paris, 294, 295, 342, 350, 356, 390, 391, 412, 413, 415, 435

Paris, Peace of, 338, 434

Parthian dynasty, 202

Parthians, 155, 192, 194, 198, 199, 245

Passau, Treaty of, 314

Patricians, Roman, 176, 188

Paul, St., 202, 223

Pavia, siege of, 312

Peace Conference, Dr. Dillon’s, 434

Peasant revolts, 305, 310

Peculium, 206

Pedro I, 340

Pegu, 300

Pekin, 173, 287, 300, 383, 400, 432

Peloponnesian War, 139, 145, 430

Pentateuch, the, 116

“People’s crusade,” the, 270, 432. (Cf. Crusades)

Pepi II, 83

Pepin I, 259

Pepin of Hersthal, 431

Pergamum, 154, 180, 183, 430

Pericles, 139, 140

Perry, Commodore, 402

Persepolis, 114, 148, 155

Persia, 77, 134 et seq., 165, 185,

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