The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind

by H. G. Wells

"s” is used only for the sibilant "s” (as in "toast,” tōst, "place,” plās); the sonant "s” (as in "toes,” "plays”) is printed "z” (tōz, plāz).

"c” (except in the combinations "ch” and "ch”), "q” and "x” are not used.

b, d, f, h (but see the combinations below), k, l, m, n (see n below), p, r, t, v, z, and w and y when used as consonants have their usual values.

ch as in church (chũrch), batch (băch), capriccio (kä prē’ chō).
ch " " loch (loch), coronach (kor’ o näch), clachan (klăch’ än).
g " " get (get), finger (fing’ gũr).
j " " join (join), judge (jŭj), germ (jũrm), ginger (jin’ jĕr).
gh (in List of Proper Names only) as in Ludwig (lut’ vigh).
hl (in List of Proper Names only) " " Llandeilo (hlăn dī’ lō).
hw as in white (hwīt), nowhere (nō’ hwâr).
n " " cabochon (kä bō shon’), congé (kon’ shā).
sh " " shawl (shawl), mention (men’ shŭn).
zh " " measure (mezh’ ŭr), vision (vizh’ ŏn).
th " " thin (thin), breath (breth).
th " " thine (thīn), breathe (brēth).

The accent (’) follows the syllable to be stressed.

[A], [B], [C], [D], [E], [F], [G], [H], [I], [J], [K], [L], [M], [N], [O], [P], [Q], [R], [S], [T], [U], [V], [W], [X], [Y], [Z]

A
Aar (ār) Valley, ii, [199]
Aaronson, Aaron, i, [184]
Abbasids (ă băs’ īdz), ii, [30-36], [061], [064], [070], [106], [126], [613]
Abbott, E., i, [6]
Abbott, W. J. Lewis, i, [68]
Abd Manif (äbd män ēf’), ii, [5]
Abdal Malik (äbd äl mä’ lik), ii, [28]
Abelard, P., ii, [171]
Aboukir (ä boo kēr’), ii, [352], [353]
Aboukir, cruiser, ii, [520]
Abraham the Patriarch, i, [196], [278], [282], [293-94], [576], ii, [6]
Absolution, ii, [216]
Abu Bekr (ä’ boo bek’ ĕr), ii, [6], [7], [8], [13-22], [034], [612]
Abul Abbas, ii, [30], [31], [613]
Abul Fazl (ā’ bool fā’ zl), ii, [135]
Abydos (ă bī’ dos), i, [335], [340]
Abyssinia, i, [156], [160], [359], ii, [461]
Abyssinian Christians, i, [603], [618], ii, [3], [8];
language, i, [154]
Académie des Sciences, ii, [239]
Academy, Greek, i, [351], [354-57]
Academy of Inscriptions, ii, [312]
Achilles (ä kil’ ēz), i, [177]
Acre, i, [212], ii, [353]
Acropolis (ă krop’ ŏ lis), i, [306], [337]
Act of Union, ii, [492]
Actium (ăk’ ti ŭm), battle of, i, [514], ii, [609]
Acts of the Apostles, i, [587], [589]
Adam and Eve, ii, [418]
Adams, Prof. G. B., ii, [46]
Adams, John, ii, [300], [303]
Adams, Samuel, ii, [290], [303]
Adams, W. P., ii, [532]
Adams, William, ii, [465]
Addington, ii, [359]
Aden, i, [160], [197], ii, [32], [471]
Adowa (ă’ dō wă), battle of, ii, [461], [469], [500], [624]
Adrianople, i, [554], ii, [122], [502];
Treaty of, ii, [382]
Adriatic, i, [274], [389], [452], [461], [471], [540], [561], [606], [616], ii, [54], [80], [364], [509]
Adriatic river, i, [119], [120]
Ægatian Isles, i, [471], ii, [608]
Ægean (ē jē’ ăn), cities, i, [234];
civilization, i, [213-16], [281], [300];
Dark Whites, i, [447];
hunters, i, [317]
Ægina (ē jī’ nă), i, [337]
Æneid (ē’ nē id), the, i, [448]
Æolic dialect, i, [300]
Aeroplanes, i, [5], ii, [392], [519], [523]
Æschylus (ēs’ ki lŭs), i, [221], [355], ii, [607]
Afghanistan, i, [153], [201], [396], [431], [433], [627-28], [643], ii, [133], [257]
Africa, i, [57], [74], [109], [120], [145], [154-56], [162], [281], [489], [509], ii, [114], [139], [153];
peoples of, i, [86], [109], [138], [141], [149], [158-60], [195-201], [206], [234];
languages of, i, [161-62];
early trade with, i, [217], [273];
Moslems in, i, [217], [565], ii, [22], [24], [30], [31], [41], [51], [64], [65], [613];
voyages and travels in, i, [218], [509], ii, [185-88], [252];
Phœnicians in, i, [448], [482-84], [513], [570], [640];
Roman, i, [470], [478-79], [498], [540], [560], [606];
Vandals in, i, [556], [606], [615], ii, [611];
slavery in, ii, [193], [225], [306];
modern exploitation of, ii, [451], [458-60], [484]
Africa, Central, i, [158], [558];
East, i, [42], [178];
South (see South Africa);
West, i, [219], ii, [193]
African lung fish, i, [25]
Aga Khan (ä’ gä kän’), ii, [473]
Agincourt, ii, [179]
Agriculture, early, i, [104], [108], [113-14], [116], [133], [137], [158], [171], [190], [254], [317];
slaves in, i, [259];
Arab knowledge of, ii, [38];
in Great Britain, ii, [272], [273]
Agriculturists, i, [264], [267], [271]
Agrigentum (ăg ri gen’ tŭm), i, [469]
Agrippina (ăg ri pī’ nă), i, [525]
Ahriman (ă’ ri män), i, [625], [626]
Ainu (ī’ noo), i, [139], [148], ii, [262], [464]
Air, the, i, [5], [23], [36]
Air Force, ii, [570]
Aisne (ān), ii, [515];
battle of the, ii, [48]
Aix-la-Chapelle, ii, [60], [63]
Akbar (äk’ bũr), ii, [133-37], [256], [618]
Akhnaton (äk nä’ ton). (See Amenophis IV)
Akkadia (and Akkadians), i, [191], [245]
Akkadian-Sumerian Empire, i, [196], [279], ii, [606]
Akki, i, [279]
Alabama, the, ii, [443-44]
Alamanni, i, [553], ii, [48], [610]
Alans, i, [549-54], [627-28], ii, [609]
Alaric (ăl’ ă rik), i, [554], [561], ii, [611]
Alaska, ii, [505]
Alban, St., ii, [50]
Alban Mount, i, [448]
Albania, ii, [522]
Albert, Prince Consort, ii, [436], [486], [622]
Albertus Magnus, ii, [171]
Albigenses (ăl bi jen’ sēz), ii, [92], [95], [219]
Alcarez (ăl cär’ ez), ii, [208]
Alchemists, ii, [174]
Alcibiades (ăl si bī’ ă dēz), i, [351]
Alcmæonidæ (ălk mē on’ i dē), i, [314]
Alcohol, discovery of, ii, [38]
Alcuin (ăl’ kwin), ii, [59]
Alemanni. (See Alamanni)
Aleppo, ii, [76]
Alexander the Great, i, [133], [195], [198], [200], [205], [217], [252], [253], [277], [345], [352], [357-59], [366-99], [412], [428], [430], [445], [452], [467], [484], [507], [510], [512], [522], [542], [546], [562], [597], [615-16], [643], ii, [20], [51], [78], [114], [145], [199], [303], [608];
empire of (maps), i, [393], [398];
mother of, i, [452]
Alexander, son of Alexander the Great, i, [394]
Alexander II, king of Egypt, i, [500]
Alexander I, tsar of Russia, ii, [362-66], [370-76], [382], [405], [411], [476-77], [622]
Alexander II, tsar of Russia, ii, [623]
Alexander III (pope), ii, [97], [615]
Alexander VI (pope), ii, [195], [617]
Alexandretta, i, [379], [383]
Alexandria, i, [13], [383], [389], [395-96], [428], [463], [497], [515], [532], [538], [562], [587], [601], [602], [604], ii, [36], [91], [168], [351], [611];
museum at, i, [359], [402-13], [476], [490], [636];
culture and religion of, i, [401-14], [590-91], [602], ii, [37];
library at, i, [405], [411];
Serapeum, i, [413], [414]
Alexandrian cities, i, [273]
Alexius Comnenus (ă lek’ si ŭs kom nē’nŭs), ii, [72-80]
Alfred, king, ii, [54], [148], [614]
Algæ, i, [10]
Algebra (ăl’ je bră), i, [219], ii, [37], [88]
Algeria, i, [102], [217], [565], ii, [501]
Algiers, ii, [126], [225], [470]
Ali (ā’ lē), nephew of Muhammad, ii, [6-8], [013], [026-31], [064], [613]
Alkmaar (älk mär’), siege of, ii, [230-32]
Allah, ii, [9-20], [024], [26]
Alleghany mountains, ii, [280]
Allen, Grant, i, [131]
Allen, W. A. C., i, [294]
Alp Arslan (älp ärs län’), ii. [72]
Alphabets, i, [228], [304], [422], [627], [638-40]
Alpine race, i, [146]
Alps, the, i, [35], [52], [75], [471], [475], [508], [606], ii, [58], [63], [69], [194]
Alsace, i, [553], ii, [200], [236], [244], [446]
Alstadt, ii, [180]
Altai (äl’ tī), the, i, [546], [633]
Altamira (al tă mër’ ă), cave of, i, [93], ii, [605]
Aluminium, ii, [389]
Alva, General, ii, [229-32]
Alyattes (ă li ăt’ ēz), i, [316]
Amadis (ăm’ ă dis) de Gaul, ii, [165], [166]
Ambar, ii, [136]
Amber, i, [105], [532]
Amenophis (ăm ĕ nō’ fis) III, i, [200], [220], [245], [250], [288]
Amenophis IV, i, [196], [220], [245], [250], [251], [255], [281], [288], [412], [446], ii, [605]
America, i, [56], [59], [100], [219], ii, [254], [400];
prehistoric, i, [100], [102-03], [107], [148], [207], [208];
races of, i, [100], [102-03], [138], [141], [158];
languages of, i, [150], [158], [164];
discovery of, i, [635], [640], ii, [53], [84], [117], [185] sqq., [193], [251-52], [269], [617];
European settlements in, ii, [252-55], [271], [273], [278-94], [304], [619].
(See also United States)
America, Central, drawings, i, [207]
America, South, i, [207], ii, [166], [187], [192-93], [200], [378], [457], [622]
American Indians, i, [113], [124], [137], [143], [157-60], [207], [225], ii, [166], [187], [189], [254], [292], [304-05], [464]
American king-crab, i, [10];
picture writing, i, [207]
Amiens, ii, [530];
Peace of, ii, [355], [359]
Amir, ii, [124]
Amman (Philadelphia), i, [621-22]
Ammianus, i, [607]
Ammon, i, [249-52], [383], [399], [412], [602]
Ammonites, i, [46]
Ammonites, a people, i, [294]
Amœba (ă mē’ bȧ), i, [16]
Amorites, i, [191], [279]
Amos the prophet, i, [294]
Amphibia, i, [26], [28], [38], [52], [55]
Amphictyonies (ăm fik’ ti ŏn iz), i, [313], ii, [3], [8]
Amphion, cruiser, ii, [512]
Amphipolis (ăm fip’ ŏ lis), i, [371], [372]
Amritzar (ăm rit’ săr), ii, [456]
Amur (ă moor’), ii, [261]
Anabaptists, ii, [156], [157], [162], [618]
Anabasis (ă năb’ ă sis), the, i, [342]
Anagni (ä nän’ yē), ii, [99], [616]
Anatolia, ii, [72], [121]
Anatolian peninsula, i, [623]
Anatomy, i, [402-04], ii, [177]
Anaxagoras (ăn ăk săg’ ŏ răs), i, [349], [358], [364]
Andaman (ăn’ dă măn) Islands, i, [139]
Andes, i, [35], [52]
Andronicus (ăn drŏ nī’ kŭs), ii, [124]
Angelo, St., ii, [612]
Angles, i, [554], [605], ii, [50], [54], [66]
Anglia, East, ii, [40]
Anglicanism, ii, [163]
Anglo-Norman feudalism, ii, [43]
“Anglo-Saxon,” ii, [487-88]
Anglo-Saxons, i, [564], [605], [612], ii, [47], [130], [149]
Animals, i, [10], [16-23], [25-27], [52-57], [064],

[066], [067], [102], [105], [112], [116], [128], [254]. (See also Mammals)
Anio, the, i, [458], [610]
Anna Comnena (kom nē’ nă), ii, [79]
Annam, i, [634], [640], ii, [262], [467], [470]
Anne, queen, ii, [226]
Anselm, St., ii, [171]
Antarctic birds, i, [44]
Antigonus (ăn tig’ ō nŭs), i, [395]
Antimony, i, [106]
Antioch, i, [529], [589], [598], [604], [617-21], ii, [19], [78-81], [610]
Antiochus (ăn tī’ ȯ kŭs) III, i, [474], [482], [483]
Antiochus IV, i, [572]
Antonines, i, [526-31], [537-40], ii, [610]
Antoninus (ăn tō nī’ nŭs), Marcus Aurelius, i, [526-28], [540], ii, [153], [610]
Antoninus Pius, i, [526], [530], ii, [610]
Antony, i, [512], [514], [515]
Antwerp, ii, [180], [184]
Anu, i, [245]
Anubis (ă nū’ bis), Egyptian god, i, [236]
Anytus(ăn’ i tŭs), i, [352]
Apamea (ăp ă mē’ ă), i, [621]
Apes, i, [65-67], [230];
anthropoid, i, [57], [63], [65-66], [73]
Aphelion, i, [30-34]
Apion, i, [500]
Apis (ā’ pis), i, [382], [412], [413], [590]
Apollinaris Sidonius, i, [607]
Apollo, i, [313], [325], [376], [611]
Apollonius (ă pŏ lō’ ni ŭs), i, [402]
Appian Way, i, [461], [505]
Apples, i, [113]
Appomattox Court House, ii, [444], [623]
Apuleius (ăp ū lē’ ŭs), i, [607]
Aquileia (ă kwē lā’ yă), i, [461], [559]
Aquinas (ă kwī’ năs), ii, [168], [171]
Arabia, i, [37], [109], [121], [154], [156], [160], [184], [196], [197], [218], [229], [273], [281], [295], [401], [533], [618], [624], [634], ii, [1-6], [011], [017], [018], [024], [051], [075], [105]. (See also Arabs)
Arabian Nights, the, ii, [32]
Arabic language and literature, i, [148], [153], [530-31], [623], ii, [3-4], [022], [029], [031], [034-35], [159]
Arabs, i, [188], [217], [327], [565], [570], [634], ii, [1-8], [15-21], [028], [032], [039], [041], [061], [067], [114], [149], [159], [257], [613];
culture of, i, [636], ii, [34-39], [088], [149], [168], [174-75]
Aral sea, i, [153], [159], [387]
Aral-Caspian region, i, [317]
Arameans, i, [192], [218], [258], [259], [265], [570], [631], ii, [1]
Arbela (är bē’ lă), battle of, i, [384], [479], ii, [608]
Arcadius, i, [554], ii, [611]
Archæopteryx (är kē op’ tĕr iks), i, [45]
Archæozoic (är kē ō zō’ ik) period, i, [9]. (See also Azoic)
Archer, William, ii, [473]
Archers, i, [370]
Archimedes (är ki mē’ dēz), i, [402], [476], [534]
Architecture, ii, [60], [179]
Arctic birds, i, [44];
Circle, i, [632];
Ocean, i, [153];
seas, ii, [142]
Ardashir (ar dă shēr’) I, i, [617], [625], ii, [610]
Ardennes, ii, [514]
Argentine republic, i, [161], ii, [457]
Argon, ii, [119]
Argonne, ii, [329]
Argos, i, [453], [454]
Ariadne (ăr i ăd’ ni), i, [216]
Arians (är’ i ănz), i, [592], [601]
Aridæus (ăr i dē’ ŭs), i, [375], [394]
Aristagoras (ăr is tăg’ ŏ răs), i, [341], [342]
Aristarchus, i, [384]
Aristides (ăr is tī’ dēz), i, [312], [313], [337], [346]
Aristocracy, i, [188], [265], [308]
Aristodemus (ăr is tŏ dē’ mŭs), i, [336]
Aristophanes (ăr is tof’ ă nēz), i, [221], [355], ii, [607]
Aristotle, i, [220], [305], [314], [357-59], [379], [383], [392], [397], [402], [411], [434], [493], [530], [562], ii, [35], [37], [88], [146], [168-69], [173], [245], [419], [432];
Politics of, i, [308], [309], [462], [467], ii, [169]
Arithmetic, i, [219]
Arius (ȧ rī’ ŭs), i, [592], [600], [648]
Arizona, ii, [505]
Ark of bulrushes, i, [209]
Ark of the Covenant, i, [245], [284-88]
Arles (arl), i, [600], [601], [609], ii, [611]
Armadillo, giant, i, [102], [207]
Armenia (and the Armenians), i, [169], [318], [395], [505], [523], [526], [548], [549], [603], [616], [620], ii, [21], [64], [72], [114], [118], [121], [125], [153]
Armenian language, i, [151], [169], ii, [138]
Arno, i, [451], [460], [461]
Arras, ii, [324], [517]
Arrow, i, [508], [549]
Arrow heads, i, [104], [107], [114], [130]
Arrow straighteners, i, [90], [99]
Arsacids (ăr săs’ idz), i, [523], [616], ii, [610]
Arses, i, [342]
Art, Buddhist, i, [428];
Cretan, i, [215];
Neolithic, i, [130];
Palæolithic, i, [92-99], [123]
Artabanus (ăr tă bā’ nŭs), i, [335]
Artaxerxes II, i, [342], [363]
Artaxerxes III, i, [342]
Arthur, king, i, [531]
Artillery, i, [372], ii, [124]
Artisans, i, [264-269]
Artois (ă twă’), Count of. (See Charles X)
Aryan, definition of, i, [298];
languages and literature, i, [133], [151-55], [161-64], [167-69], [173], [298], [387], [446], ii, [247];
peoples and civilisations, i, [152], [160], [167] sqq., [189], [194], [201], [232-33], [243-44], [247], [281-82], [298-300], [305], [315-18], [387], [415-16], [446-48], [545], [549-51], [558], ii, [144], [168], [184], [190], [490], [605]
Aryan Way, the, i, [417], [424], [433], [440], [449]
As, Roman coin, i, [471]
Ascalon, i, [282]
Asceticism, i, [418], [420]
Ashdod, i, [245], [282]
Ashley, Sir W., ii, [287]
Ashtaroth (ăsh’ tă roth), i, [282], [286], [288]
Asia, general and early period, i, [56], [59], [75], [77], [86], [100], [102], [108], [109], [118], [153], [157-160], [195], [273], [299], [317], [318], [536], [542-49], [551], [557], [624], [627], ii, [69], [98], [105-08], [114], [153], [168], [185], [247], [449], [464], [610];
Greeks in, i, [327], [375], [390], [396];
Romans in, i, [397], [482], [501], [533], [539];
tribes and people of, i, [508], [545-52], ii, [113], [127], [134], [137], [259], [266];
Christianity in, i, [517], [597], [604], [617], ii, [79], [114], [116], [117];
Turks in, i, [618-23], ii, [24], [28], [51], [64], [66], [121], [123];
voyages and travels in, i, [627-29], [642-43], ii, [187], [193], [194], [462]
Asia, Central, i, [102], [138], [159], [160], [298], [541], [547], ii, [32], [139], [194], [261];
tribes, people, and civilization of, i, [184], [387], [507], [604], ii, [127]
Asia, Eastern, i, [140-41]
Asia, South-eastern, languages of, i, [157]
Asia, Western, i, [89], [145], ii, [106], [168];
tribes, people, and civilization of, i, [141], [145], [218], [234], ii, [168]
Asia Minor, i, [107], [109], [153], [196], [220], [265], [298], [318], [327], [395], [503-06], [509], [617], [622], ii, [28], [114], [137], [153];
tribes and people of, i, [189], [213], [298], [315-17], [388], [447-48];
Greeks in, i, [300], [302], [304], [308], [315-16], [340], ii, [606];
Gauls in, i, [395], [449], ii, [608];
Turks in, ii, [31], [33], [72], [106], [114], [121]
Asiatics, intellectual status of, ii, [462]
Asoka (ă shō’ ka), King, i, [196], [411], [431], [432], [489], [628], [646], ii, [133], [608]
Aspasia (ăs pā’ shi ȧ), i, [345-6], [349-50], [355]
Asquith, Rt. Hon. H. H., ii, [432], [496], [518]
Ass, wild, i, [217]
Assam, ii, [453]
Assisi (ă sē’ zi), ii, [93]
Assur, i, [192], [412]
Assurbanipal. (See Sardanapalus)
Assyria (and Assyrians), i, [192-94], [199], [205], [216], [225], [240], [243-47], [256], [262], [277], [290-95], [300], [315-17], [319], [327], [342], [383], [384], [446], [526], [570], ii, [1], [244], [606]
Assyrian language and writing, i, [153], [228]
Asteroids, i, [4]
Astrologers, ii, [175]
Astronomy, i, [5], [240], [364], ii, [37], [114], [175-76]
Athanasius, i, [592], [601], [648]
Atheism, ii, [333]
Athene (ă thē’ nē), i, [348]
Athens, i, [262], [302-13], [330-52], [372], [378], [385], [457], [461], [467], [536], [589], [623], ii, [483], [502], [524];
social and political, i, [220], [309-12], [348], [352-57], [368], [460], ii, [147];
literature and learning, i, [343-66], [404], [405], [409], [613], [618], [637], [645], ii, [54], [612]
Atkinson, C. F., ii, [332]
Atkinson, J. J., i, [79], [125], [257], ii, [341]
Atlantic Ocean, i, [75-76], [119], [120], [138], [153], [532], [640], ii, [22], [84], [193], [267];
navigation of, i, [217], ii, [185-88], [192], [387], [617]
Atlantosaurus (ăt lăn to saw’ rŭs), i, [42]

Atmosphere, i, [4], [5], [34]
Aton (ä’ ton), Egyptian god, i, [250]
Atonement, i, [575], [588]
Attalus (ăt’ ă lŭs), i, [375]
Attalus I, i, [396]
Attalus III, i, [397], [483], [499], ii, [609]
Attica (ăt’ i kă), i, [332-33], [457]
Attila (ăt’ i lă), i, [174], [557-59], [608], [628-29], ii, [42], [611]
Aughrim, battle of, ii, [492]
Augsburg, ii, [206], [210]
Augurs, Roman, i, [464]
Augustine, St., Bishop of Hippo, i, [592], [598], [604], [607], [612], ii, [56], [73], [611]
Augustus Cæsar, Roman Emperor, i, [513-18], [522], [523], [535], [542], [598], ii, [75], [609]
Aurangzeb. (See Aurungzeb)
Aurelian, emperor, i, [528], [535], [553], [602], [617], ii, [610]
Aurignac, i, [96]
Aurignacian (aw rig nā’ shŭn) age, i, [96], [97], [173]
Aurochs (aw’ roks), i, [76], [92], [101]
Aurungzeb (aw rŭng zāb’), ii, [133], [256], [453], [620]
Ausculum, battle of, i, [453], ii, [608]
Ausonius (aw sō’ ni ŭs), i, [607]
Austerlitz, ii, [362], [622]
Austin, Mary, i, [264]
Australia, i, [37], [82], [206], [635], ii, [451], [456], [471], [472];
aborigines of, i, [98], [139-40], [172]
Australian language, i, [162];
lung-fish, i, [25];
throwing-stick, i, [90]
Australoids, i, [139], [141], [148], [159], [206]
Austrasia, ii, [45], [47], [48], [613]
Austria, ii, [200], [204], [233], [240-44], [251], [278], [314], [320], [327], [378-80], [400], [446-47];
wars with France, ii, [327], [332], [351], [355], [361], [368], [441], [621];
war with Prussia, ii, [442-45], [623];
in Great War, ii, [510], [531], [566], [624]
Autocracy, i, [342], ii, [220]
Automobiles, ii, [392]
Avars, i, [560], [564], [616], [620], ii, [24], [48], [69], [113]
Avebury, i, [110], [183], [196], [448]
Avebury, Lord, i, [80], [106-07], [110], [115], [118], [134], ii, [426]
Averroes (ă ver’ ō ēz), ii, [37], [88], [168], [171], [615]
Avicenna (ăv i sen’ ă), ii, [37], [168], [614]
Avignon (ă vē nyon’), ii, [84], [99], [127], [148], [617]
Axes, ancient, i, [104-07], [112-14], [132]
Axis of earth, i, [57]
Ayesha (I’ ĕ shă), ii, [12], [26]
Azilian age, i, [90], [94], [97], [101], [120], [133], [152]
Azoic (ă zo’ ik) period, i, [9], [14], [17], [30]
Azores, ii, [185]
Aztecs, ii, [189-90]
B
Baal, i, [237], [283], [292]
Baalbek (bäl bek’), i, [621], ii, [3]
Babel, Tower of, i, [190]
Baber, ii, [133], [200], [256], [618]
Baboons, i, [65], [67], [230]
Babylon (and Babylonia), i, [192-201], [218-23], [228], [245-60], [263-67], [277-79], [290-95], [315], [317], [319-20], [326], [342], [364], [383], [385], [389], [394], [411-12], [416], [424], [436], [449], [483], [497], [508], [509], [533], [570], [583], [619-23], [631], [632], ii, [1], [71], [130], [276], [342], [606], [607];
religion of, i, [238-42], [245-48], [278], [296], [400], [431]
Bacchus, i, [515]
Bacharach, ii, [180]
Back Bay, ii, [290]
Bacon, Francis, Lord Verulam, i, [358], ii, [166], [176], [619]
Bacon, Roger, ii, [168], [172-77], [385], [616]
Bactria (and Bactrians), i, [385], [387-90], [396], [549], [616], ii, [138]
Baden, ii, [445]
Badr (bäd’ ĕr), battle of, ii, [8], [28], [612]
Baedeker, ii, [242]
Baganda, i, [206]
Bagaudæ, ii, [157]
Bagdad, ii, [31-38], [061], [064], [070], [071], [076], [080], [106], [113], [126], [130], [522], [613], [618]
Bagoas (bă gō’ ăs), i, [342]
Bahamas, ii, [254], [255], [471]
Baikal (bī käl’), ii, [108]
Baldwin of Flanders, ii, [81], [168], [229]
Balearic Isles, i, [556]
Balfour, Rt. Hon. A. J., ii, [552]
Balkan peninsula, i, [102], [153], [196], [298], [300], [317], [395], [451], ii, [58], [122], [139], [184], [446], [501], [509], [606], [624]
Balkash, lake, ii, [108]
Balkh, ii, [118]
Ball, Dyer, i, [642]
Ball, John, ii, [155], [156]
Ball, Sir Robert, i, [30]
Balliol College, ii, [96]
Balloons, i, [5]
Baltic Sea, i, [59], [102], [153], [159], [171], [510], [533], [539], [549-53], [641], ii, [53], [65], [71], [129], [182], [233], [235-36], [251], [266], [526]
Baltimore, Lord, ii, [281]
Baluchistan. (See Beluchistan)
Bambyce (băm bī’ sē), i, [621]
Bannockburn, ii, [175]
Bantu, i, [158], [162], [189]
Barbados, ii, [254]
Barbarians, ii, [267-69]
Barbarossa, Frederick. (See Frederick I, emperor)
Barber, M. H., ii, [503]
Barbusse, ii, [513]
Barca family, i, [472], [473]
Barcelona, ii, [51], [180]
Bards, i, [172], [230]
Baring, Maurice, ii, [503]
Barley, i, [113], [172], [558]
Baroda (bă rō’ dă), ii, [257]
Barons, Revolt of the, ii, [219]
Barras (bä rä’), ii, [339], [350]
Barrows, i, [109], [117], [144], [168], [171], [175], [176], [183], [196], [197]
Barry, Comtesse du. (See Du Barry)
Basle, Council of, ii, [100], [153], [617]
Basque language, i, [161], [162], [167], [189];
race, i, [161], [162], [168], ii, [490]
Basra, ii, [36], [522]
Bassett, ii, [282]
Bassompierre, ii, [318]
Bastille, ii, [313], [621]
Basu, Bhupendranath, i, [179], [181], [182]
Basutoland, ii, [472]
Batavian Republic, ii, [347]
Bateman, T., i, [134]
Bats, i, [43]
Bauer, i, [359]
Bauernstand, i, [268]
Bavaria (and Bavarians), ii, [48], [57], [178], [445], [485]
Bayezid (bï ĕ zēd’) II, Sultan, ii, [126], [617]
Baylen, ii, [364]
Bazaine, General, ii, [445]
Beaconsfield, Earl of, ii, [227], [426], [430], [436], [447], [455], [487]
Beal, i, 642 \
Bears, i, [69], [76], [78], [93], [94]
Beauharnais, Josephine de, ii, [350], [364], [374]
Beauty, artistic, i, [215]
Beaver, European, i, [69]
Beazley, Raymond, ii, [67], [129], [185]
Bede, the Venerable, i, [608], ii, [50], [613]
Bedouins, i, [264], [278], [622], ii, [3], [8], [10], [17], [24]
Beech, fossil, i, [51]
Beer, G. L., ii, [287]
Bees, i, [51]
Behar, ii, [608]
Behring Straits, i, [57], [102], [159], [160]
Bektashi, order of dervishes, ii, [122]
Bel, i, [245], [246], [283], [326]
Belgium, ii, [46], [78], [199], [230], [327], [331], [332], [339], [347], [371], [381], [509-14], [622]
Belisarius, i, [611], ii, [612]
Bellarmine (bel’ ăr mēn), card., ii, [164]
Bellerophon (bĕ ler’ ŏ fon), frigate, ii, [372]
Bel-Marduk (bel mär’ dook), i, [245-52], [385], [412], [602]
Belshazzar, i, [247], [326]
Beluchistan (bel oo chi stän’), ii, [471];
languages of, i, [189]
Benaiah, i, [287]
Benares (be nä’ rēz), i, [417-22], [427], [449], [548], [628]
Benedict, St., i, [610-14], ii, [35], [97], [611], [612]
Benedictines, i, [612-13], ii, [149], [165]
Beneventum, i, [454]
Bengal, i, [181], [388], [416], [419], ii, [133], [257], [258]
Bengal, Bay of, i, [160]
Benin, i, [489]
Benjamin, tribe of, i, [284]
Benson, Hugh, i, [591]
Beowulf (bā’ ō wulf), i, [176], [182], [198]
Berar, ii, [133]
Berber language, i, [154], [161], [168]
Berbers, i, [206], [472], [565], ii, [41]
Bergen, ii, [180], [182], [185]
Berkeley, George, ii, [492]
Berlière, i, [612]
Berlin, Treaty of, ii, [447], [475], [558], [623]
Bermuda, ii, [471]
Bernard, brother, ii, [94]
Bes, Egyptian god, i, [236]
Bessemer process, ii, [388]
Bessus, satrap, i, [385-86]
Bethlehem, i, [574]
Beth-shan, i, [286]
Bhurtpur (bhũrt poor’), ii, [256]
Bible, the, i, [193], [281], [282], [290], [402], [411], [570], [572], ii, [60], [92], [96], [150], [151], [159], [162], [167], [211], [244]
Bigg, C., i, [625]
Birch tree, i, [51]
Birds, i, [5], [43], [44], [45], [54]
Birkenhead, Lord. (See Smith, Sir F. E.)
Birkett, ii, [129]
Birth-rate in ancient Athens, i, [314]
Biscay, Bay of, ii, [361]
Bismarck, Prince, ii, [442-46], [482], [483], [623]
Bison (bī’ sŏn), i, [69], [70], [76], [92], [93], [101], [207]
Bithynia, i, [395], [483], [500-06], [511], [560], [600]
Black Death, ii, [153-54], [617]
Black Friars, ii, [95]
Black Hundred, ii, [424]
Black lead, i, [9]
Black Prince, ii, [179]
Black Sea, i, [120], [153], [159], [196], [260], [299], [300], [316],

[340], [346], [395], [508], [510], [549-53], [600], [606], [621], ii, [66], [71], [76], [110]
Blake, Admiral, ii, [225], [257]
Bleriot, M., ii, [624]
Blind bards, i, [174]
Blood sacrifice, i, [588], [590], ii, [149]
Blue Mountains, ii, [280]
Blücher, Marshal, ii, [371]
Blues, faction of the, ii, [247]
Blumenbach, i, [141]
Blunt, W. S., i, [146], ii, [500]
Bo Tree, i, [421], [432]
Boadicea (bō ă di sē’ ă), i, [526], ii, [609]
Boars, i, [69]
Boats, i, [209-12].
(See also Ships)
Body, painting of, i, [93], [99], [100]
Bœtia (bē ō’ shi ă), i, [337]
Boer Republics, ii, [460], [483], [489]
Boer War, i, [485], ii, [424], [460], [623]
Boethius (bō ē’ thi ŭs), ii. [37]
Bohemia (and Bohemians), i, [554], ii, [51], [76], [152], [153], [162], [234]
Bohemond, ii, [79]
Bokhara (bō khä’ rä), i, [546], ii, [37], [110], [118]
Boleyn, Anne, ii, [206]
Bolivar (bol’ i vär), General, ii, [378]
Bologna (bō lōn’ yă), ii, [167], [168], [180], [205]
Bolshevists, ii, [411], [527], [536], [539], [624]
Bombay, ii, [258]
Bonaparte, Joseph, ii, [361], [364], [378], [622]
Bonaparte, Louis, ii, [361]
Bonaparte, Lucien, ii, [354]
Bonaparte, Napoleon.
(See Napoleon I)
Boncelles (bon sel’), i, [67]
Bone carvings, i, [95-99];
implements, i, [90], [96-99], [114]
Boniface, St., ii, [48], [51], [613]
Boniface VIII, Pope, ii, [99], [616]
Boniface, Roman Governor, i, [556]
Book-keeping, Aramean, i, [258]
Books, i, [253], [405-09], ii, [159].
(See also Printing)
Bordeaux, ii, [180]
Borgia, Alexander.
(See Alexander VI, Pope)
Borgia, Cæsar and Lucrezia, ii, [195-96]
Boris, king of Bulgaria, ii, [070], [614]
Borneo, i, [147], [148], [640]
Bosnia, ii, [484], [624]
Bosphorus, i, [120], [153], [302], [303], [315], [327], [329], [334], [340], [380], [395], [561], [600], [619], [621], ii, [29], [31], [78], [122]
Bosses, American, i, [308]
Boston, Mass., ii, [289-94]
Bostra, i, [623]
Botany Bay, ii, [451]
Botticelli (bot i chel’ i), ii, [184]
Boulogne, ii, [180], [362]
Bourbon, Constable of, ii, [204], [618]
Bourbon, Duke of, ii, [314]
Bourbons, ii, [327], [356], [370], [371]
Bourgeois (boor zhwä’), Léon, ii, [560]
Bournville, ii, [406]
Bow and arrow, i, [98], [114], [507-08]
Bowmen, Mongol, ii, [119]
Boxer rising, ii, [463], [624]
Boyle, Robert, ii, [390], [492]
Boyne, battle of the, ii, [492], [620]
Brachiopods (brăk’ i ō podz), i, [10], [21]
Brachycephalic (brăk i sĕ făl’ ik) skull, i, [142], [143]
Brahe (brä’ hĕ), Tycho, ii, [175], [619]
Brahma, i, [437], ii, [134]
Brahminism (and Brahmins), i, [269-72], [416-17], [427], [430], [440], [629], [645-48], ii, [108], [137], [256], [454]
Brailsford, ii, [543]
Brain, i, [56], [79], [87]
Brandenburg, elector of, ii, [236]
Brass, i, [106]
Brazil, ii, [192], [193], [200], [444]
Bread in Neolithic Age, i, [113]
Bread-fruit tree, i, [51]
Breasted, J. H., i, [248], [256], [294]
Breathing, i, [23-28]
Bréhier, L., ii, [61]
Bremen, ii, [69], [180], [182]
Brennus, i, [450], ii, [607]
Breslau, ii, [180]
Brest-Litovsk (brest lē tovsk’), ii, [530]
Breton language, i, [168]
Briareus (brī’ ă roos), i, [274]
Brienne, ii, [349]
Brindisi (brēn’ dē zē), ii, [67]
Bristol, ii, [154]
Britain, i, [59], [113], [145], [196], [273], [489], [534], [613], ii, [41], [51], [66];
invasions of, ii, [554], [605], ii, [130], [610], [611];
Roman, i, [219], [507], [509], [522], [525], [526], [564], i, [40], [50], [610];
Keltic, i, [299], [554].
(See also England and Great Britain)
British Army, officers of, ii, [516]
British Association, ii, [420]
British Channel, i, [170]
British Civil Air Transport Commission, ii, [392]
British Empire
(1815), ii, [451];
(1914), ii, [470-72]
British Empire, political life of, i, [493]
British Museum, i, [630], ii, [398]
“British” nationality, ii, [488-89]
“British schools,” ii, [396]
Britons, ancient.
(See Britain)
Brittany, i, [147], [171], [554], ii, [52], [200]
Broglie, Marshal de, ii, [313]
Brontosaurus (bron tö saw’ rŭs), i, [40]
Bronze, i, [106], [118], [172], [173], [207];
Chinese vessels of, i, [204];
ornaments, i, [114];
weapons, i, [106]
Bronze Age, i, [97], [108], [132], [133], [196], [197], [213]
Brown, Campbell, ii, [38]
Browne, Jukes, i, [50], [119]
Bruce, Robert the, ii, [179]
Bruges (broozh), ii, [180], [182], [229]
Brunellesco (broo ne les’ kō), ii, [183]
Brunswick, Duke of, ii, [327], [330]
Brussels, ii, [331], [514]
Brutus, i, [490], [513]
Bryce, ii, [54]
Bubonic plague, i, [608]
Buch, C. D., i, [300]
Bucknall, i, [50]
Buda-Pesth (boo’ dă pest), ii, [205]
Buddha (bood’ă), i, [196], [270], [420], [422], [433], [438], [449], [533], [573-74], [582], [586], [591], [610], [624], [626], [645], [646-47], ii, [13], [93], [263], [296], [607];
life of, i, [416] sqq.;
teaching of, i, [422] sqq., [436], ii, [16], [402]
Buddhism, i, [270], [411], [416] sqq., [582], [610], [626], [629], [632], [639], [645], [646], ii, [6], [106], [108], [114], [119], [127], [261].
(See also Buddha)
Buddhist art, i, [428]
Budge, Wallis, i, [197], [198], [249]
Buffon, Comte de, ii, [419], [426]
Building, i, [197]
Bulgaria (and Bulgarians), i, [328], [522], [553], [606], ii, [24], [58], [69-72], [092], [097], [122-24], [130], [446], [501], [502], [522], [531], [614]
Bulgarian atrocities, ii, [623]
Bulgarian language, i, [168]
Bull fights, Cretan, i, [274]
Bunbury, i, [217]
Bürgerstand, i, [268]
Burgoyne, General, ii, [292]
Burgundy (and Burgundians), i, [554], [606], ii, [48], [178], [200], [229], [244], [320]
Burial, early, i, [084], [093], [109], [117], [123], [130], [167], [171], [175], [197], [545]
Burke, Edmund, ii, [289], [492]
Burmah (and Burmese), i, [114], [203], ii, [119], [262], [471]
Burmese language, i, [157]
Burnet, i, [349]
Burning the dead, i, [171]
Burrell, Prof., i, [6]
Burton, Richard, i, [189]
Bury, J. B., i, [305], [327], [454], [464], ii, [112]
Bushman language, i, [162]
Bushmen, i, [68], [95], [98], [141], [224]
Butler, M. E., i, [85]
Butler, Samuel, i, [150]
Butter in Neolithic Age, i, [112]
Butterflies, i, [17], [51]
Buxar, ii, [258], [621]
Byng, L. C., i, [541]
Byzantine architecture, ii, [60]
Byzantine church.
(See Greek Church)
Byzantine Empire, i, [522], [562], [606], [617], [636], ii, [17-21], [024], [028], [039], [042], [053], [058], [060], [064-69], [072], [076], [079], [080], [081], [182], [613], [614]
Byzantium (bi zăn’ tyŭm), i, [380], [634], ii, [18], [31], [35], [57], [62], [74], [105], [126], [129], [247].
(See also Constantinople)
C
Cabul (kä’ bul), i, [386], ii, [133]
Cadbury, Messrs., ii, [406]
Cadiz (kā’ diz), ii, [352]
Caen (kān), ii, [325]
Cæsar, title, etc., i, [526], [564], [581], [589], [594], ii, [56], [59]
Cæsar, Julius, i, [113], [133], [196], [399], [465], [487], [493], [505], [510-17], [529], [534], [542], ii, [51], [351], [353], [609]
Cæsars, the, i, [526], [538], [560]
Cahors, ii, [202]
Caiaphas (kī’ ă făs), i, [585]
Caillaux, M., ii, [510]
Cainozoic (kī nŏ zō’ ik) period, i, [12], [13], [14], [35], [37], [46], [49-56], [66]
Cairo, ii, [36], [37]
Calabria, i, [476], ii, [67], [68]
Calcutta, ii, [258];
University Commission, ii, [137]
Calder, Admiral, ii, [362]
Calendar, the, i, [129]
Calicut, ii, [187], [257]
California, i, [264]
Californian Indians, i, [98]
Caligula (kă lig’ ū lă), i, [525], ii, [609]
Caliphs, ii, [17], [18], [24-34], [041], [061], [064], [071], [126], [144], [612], [613], [618]
Callicratidas (kă li krā’ ti dăs), i, [378]
Callimachus (kă lim’ ă kŭs), i, [405]
Callisthenes (kă lis’ thĕ nēz), i, [392]
Calmette, ii, [510]
Calonne, ii, [312], [323]
Calvinism, ii, [164]
Cambodia, i, [640]
Cambridge, ii, [180];
University of, i, [530], ii, [437], [486]
Cambridge, Mass., ii, [291]
“Cambulac,” ii, [118]
Cambyses (kăm bī’ sēz), i, [326], [382], ii, [607]
Camels, i, [56], [217], [323]
Camillus (că mil’ ŭs), i, [459], [483], [499], [502], ii, [607]
Campanella, ii, [211]
Campo Formio, peace of, ii, [351], [621]
Camptosaurus (kămp tō saw’ rus) i, [40]
Canaan (and the Canaanites), i, [278-83], ii, [1]
Canada, i, [9], [161], ii, [254], [279], [285], [292], [451], [457], [471], [472], [621]
Canadian dawn animal, i, [9]
Canary Isles, ii, [185]
Candahar, i, [389]
Candles, ceremonial, i, [413], [414]
Candolle (kän dōl’), de, i, [184]
Cannæ (kăn’ ē), battle of, i, [476], [479], ii, [608]
Cannes, ii, [371]
Cannibalism, i, [167], ii,