The Story of Mankind

by Hendrik Willem Van Loon

• B
• Bach, [444]
• Bacon, Roger, [194], [226], [429]
• Bagdad, [142]
• Balance of Power, [296]-[300]
• Balboa, [236]
• Balkan States, [376], [386], [453], [454]
• Barbarossa, [166]
• Barrack Emperors, [125]
• Beethoven, [445]
• Belgium, [374]
• Bell, Alexander Graham, [411]
• Bentham, Jeremy, [420]
• Bismarck, [394]-[400]
• Blanc, Louis, [425]
• Blücher, [357]
• Boccaccio, [214]
• Boer War, [452]
• Bolivar, Simon, [383]
• Bologna, University of, [210]
• Bonaparte, Joseph, [383]
• Bonaparte (See Napoleon)
• Boris Godunow, [306]
• Brandenburg, [312]
• Brazil, [375]
• de Brienne, [340]-[341]
• Buddha, [241]-[246]
• Bulgaria, [453], [454]
• Bunsen, [430]
• Burgundians, [127]
• Byron, [388]
• Byzantine Empire, [216]
• conquered by Turks, [137]
• Byzantium, [126]

• C
• Cabot, John, [236], [284], [326]
• Caesar, Julius, [112]-[115]
• de Calonne, [339]-[340]
• Calvin, [262], [264]
• Canning, George, [384], [388]
• Capo d’Istria, [376]
• Carbonari, [386]
• Carthage, [88]-[104]
• government of, [88]-[90]
• Cartwright, Edmund, [406]
• Castlereagh, [368]-[372]
• Catiline, [113]
• Cavour, [394]
• Chaldeans, [37]
• Champollion, [19]
• Chancellor, Richard, [285], [301]
• Charlemagne, [144]-[149], [193]
• crowned, [146]
• his Empire divided, [146]-[148]
• Charles I (England), [287]-[290]
• Charles II (England), [290]-[292]
• Charles V, [252], [253], [259], [267], [269], [320]
• Charles X (France), [389]
• Charles XII (Sweden), [311]
• Charles XXII (Sweden), [374]
• Charles the Bold, [148]
• Charles Martel, [143]
• Chartist Movement, [418]
• Cheops, [26]
• chivalry, [159]-[161]
• Christian IV (Denmark), [274]-[276]
• Chrysoloras, [216]
• Cicero, [113]
• Civil War (U. S. A.), [423]
• Cleopatra, [28], [115]
• Clovis, [145]
• Cnossos, [51]-[53]
• Colbert, [320]
• College of Cardinals, [164]
• Colonial Expansion, [451]-[453]
• Columbus, [226], [232]-[235]
• Committee of Public Safety, [346]
• Confucius, [247]-[250]
• Congo, [452]
• Congress of Vienna, [361]-[382]
• Conrad V, [167]
• Constantine, [126], [127], [135]
• Constantinople, [127], [129], [137], [216]
• Copernicus, [231]
• Correggio, [440]
• cotton, [405], [406]
• Council of Ten (Venice), [200]
• de Covilham, Pedro, [231]
• Crete, [51]-[52]
• Crimean War, [396]
• Cromwell, Oliver, [289]-[290], [320]
• Crusades, [166]-[173]
• First, [169]
• Second, [170]
• Cuba, [453]
• cuneiform inscriptions, [32]
• Cyrus, [45]
• Czartoryski, Adam, [374]

• D
• da Gama, Vasco, [226], [236]
• Danish Parliament, [189]
• Dante, [211]-[213]
• Danton, [346]
• Declaration of Independence, [331]
• Declaration of Rights of Man, [334]
• Denmark, [374]
• Deutschland, [148]
• Diaz, Bartholomew, [230]
• discovery of America, [235]-[238]
• Disraeli, [454]
• Divine Right of Kings, [287]-[289]
• Draco, [64]
• Dutch East India Company, [238]-[272]
• Dutch Republic becomes Kingdom, [373]
• Dutch Republic formed, [190]
• Dutch West India Company, [273]
• Dynamoes, [411]

• E
• Edict of Nantes, [277]
• Egypt, [17]-[28]
• Captured by Alexander the Great, [27]
• Captured by Assyrians, [27]
• Captured by Hyksos, [27]
• Captured by Rome, [28]
• Electricity, [410]-[411]
• Elizabeth (England), [271], [283], [285], [320]
• Emancipation Proclamation, [423]
• England, conquests of, [154]
• English Cabinet, [293]
• English Colonies, [326]-[329]
• English Revolution, [279]-[295]
• Encyclopaedia (French), [336], [429]
• Engels, Friedrich, [425]
• Enghien, Duc d’, [351]
• Erasmus, [208], [256], [257]
• Eriksen, Leif, [232]
• Estates General (Holland), [189], [190], [270]
• Etruscans, [93]
• Eugénie, Empress, [399]
• van Eyck, Jan, [439]

• F
• factories, [413]-[419]
• Faraday, Michael, [411]
• Ferdinand and Isabella, [235]
• Ferdinand II (Austria), [274]
• Ferdinand VII (Spain),375
• Feudalism, [155]-[158]
• fire, first use of, [14]-[15]
• Fitch, John, [406], [407]
• Florence, [201], [396]
• Fra Angelico, [222]
• French Colonies, [327]-[329]
• French Parliament, [188]
• French Revolution, [334]-[348], [415]
• Francis Joseph, [393]
• Franco-Prussian War, [400]-[401]
• Franklin, Benjamin, [330], [410]
• Franks, [127], [144]
• Frederick II of Hohenstaufen, [166]
• Frederick II of Prussia, [314]-[316]
• Frederick William I, [314]
• Frederick William IV, [393]
• freedom of the sea, [272]
• Fulton, Robert, [406]

• G
• Galileo, [404]
• Garibaldi, [394]
• Genoa, [201]
• George I, [294]
• George II, [294]
• George III, [294], [330]
• German Empire, [400]-[401]
• Germany after Congress of Vienna, [376]-[379]
• Ghent, [203]
• Gibel-al-tarik, [142]
• Giotto, [222]
• Girondists, [346]
• Glacial Age, [13], [14]
• Godfrey of Bouillon, [170]
• Goths, [127]
• Gracchi, [111]
• Grand Remonstrance, [289]
• Grant, [423]
• Gratian, [210]
• Greece, [54]-[84], [376], [387], [388]
• Greek art rediscovered, [214], [215]
• “cities as states, [58]-[61]
• “government, [62]-[65]
• “home-life, [66]-[70]
• “language in Middle-Ages, [216]
• Greeks conquer Aegeans, [56], [57]
• Greek slaves, [67]-[68]
• “theatre, [71]-[73]
• Gregory (Pope), [136]
• Gregory VII, [164]-[166]
• Grotius, [272]
• Guelphs and Ghibellines, [211]
• von Guericke, Otto, [410]
• Gustavus Adolphus, [276]
• Gutenberg, [223]

• H
• Haiti, [383]
• Hals, Franz, [440]
• Hammurabi, [35]
• Hannibal, [100]-[107]
• Hanseatic League, [203]
• Hargreaves, James, [405]
• Hasdrubal, [102], [103]
• Hastings, Battle of, [154]
• van Heemskerk, [272]
• Hegira, [140]
• Hellenes, [55]
• Henry IV (Germany), [164]-[166]
• Henry VII (England), [282]
• Henry VIII (England), [262], [282]
• Henry the Navigator, [228]-[230]
• heresy, [265]
• herring fisheries, [203]
• hieroglyphics, [19]-[21]
• Hittites, [36]
• Hohenstaufen family, [166]
• Hohenzollern, rise of, [313]-[314]
• Holy Alliance,360-[372], [384]-[386]
• Holy Roman Empire founded, [148]
• Henry Hudson, [273]
• Hundred Years’ War, [281], [282]
• Huns, [127]
• Huss, John, [220], [369]
• Huygens, [405]
• Hyksos, [27]

• I
• Icelandic Parliament, [189]
• Indo-Europeans, [44]-[47]
• Indulgences, [258]
• Inquisition, [263], [264]
• Isis, [24]
• Italy united, [394]
• Ivan the Terrible, [202]-[203], [306]

• J
• Jacobins, [345], [346], [353]
• James I, [286]
• James II, [292]
• Japan, [452]
• Jefferson, Thomas, [331]
• Jenghiz Khan, [304]
• Jerusalem, [41]
• captured by Crusaders, [170]
• captured by Turks, [173]
• Jesuits, [266]-[267], [379]
• Jesus Christ, [118]-[123]
• Jews, [38]-[41]
• Joan of Arc, [220], [281]
• John (England), [186], [187]
• Josephine, Empress, [351]
• Justinian, [136]

• K
• Karageorgevich dynasty, [376]
• Kay, John, [405]
• à Kempis, Thomas, [219], [221]
• Kirchhoff, [430]
• Knighthood, [159]-[161]
• Königgrätz, battle of, [398]
• Kossuth, [392]
• Von Krüdener, Baroness, [369]-[371]