The Story of Mankind

by Hendrik Willem Van Loon

• L
• labor reforms, [420]-[426]
• Lafayette, [388]
• Lao-Tse, [247], [248]
• de Laplace, Marquis, [430]
• Lee, Richard Henry, [331]
• Lee, Robert, General, [423]
• van Leeuwenhoek, [430]
• Leibnitz, [404]
• Leipzig, battle of, [356]
• Leonidas, [78]
• Leopold I (Belgium), [391]
• Leopold II (Belgium), [452]
• Lincoln, Abraham, [423]
• Locomotives, [408], [409]
• Louis XIII, [276]
• Louis XIV, [296]-[299], [320], [334]-[335]
• Louis XVI, [338]-[346]
• Louis XVIII, [356], [365], [389]
• Louis Philippe, [391]-[392]
• Louisiana Purchase, [358]
• Loyola, [266]
• Luther, Martin, [251], [257]-[260]
• Lyell, Sir Charles, [430]

• M
• Macchiavelli, [222]
• Magellan, [225], [226], [236], [237]
• Magenta, battle of, [396]
• Magna Carta, [186]-[187]
• Mammals, [7]
• Man, first appearance, [10]
• Marathon, [76]-[77]
• Marco Polo, [224]
• Maria Theresa, [315]
• Marie Louise, [391]
• Marius, [111]-[112]
• Mary, Queen, [283]
• Mary, Queen of Scots, [283]
• Marx, Karl, [425]-[426]
• Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico, [399]
• Mazzini, [394]
• Medes, [45]
• Mediaeval cities, [174]-[183]
• ““obtain charters, [180]-[183]
• “self-government, [184]-[190]
• “trade, [198]-[205]
• “world, [191]-[197]
• Medici, [201]
• de Medici, Catherine, [283]
• Mercantile System, [317]-[322]
• Merovingian kings, [144]-[145]
• Mesopotamia, [29]-[37]
• Metternich, [363]-[372], [386], [389], [390]-[392]
• Mexico, [399]
• Michelangelo, [440]
• Microscope, [430]
• Middle Ages, [191]-[197]
• Miltiades, [76]
• Mirabeau, [345]
• Mohammed, [138]-[143]
• Mohammedans conquer Mesopotamia and Spain, [142]
• Monroe Doctrine, [384]
• Montesquieu, [336]
• Montez, Lola, [393]
• Morse, Samuel, [410]
• Moscow, [305]-[306]
• “burned by Napoleon, [356]
• Moses, [38]-[41]
• Mozart, [444]
• Mummy, [24]
• Music, [441]-[445]
• Mycenae, [50]

• N
• Napier, John, [403]
• Napoleon, [149], [348]-[363], [374]-[375], [395]-[396]
• Napoleon III, [400]
• National Assembly, [343]-[345]
• Necker, [338], [341]-[344]
• Nelson, [354]
• Netherlands, war with Spain, [268]-[271]
• Newcomen, Thomas, [405]
• Newton, Isaac, [404], [429]
• Nicholas I (Russia), [391]
• Nieuw Amsterdam, [273]
• Nile Valley, [17], [22], [26], [27]
• Nimwegen, peace of, [299]
• Norman conquest of England, [280]
• Normandy, [151]
• Norse discoverers, [232]-[233]
• Norsemen, [150]-[154]
• North German Confederacy, [399]
• Norway, [374]
• Novgorod, [202]-[203]

• O
• Obrenovitch dynasty, [376]
• Octavian, [117]
• Odoacer, [127]
• Oldenbarneveldt, John of, [278]
• Osiris, [24]
• Otto the Great, [148], [163], [193]
• Owen, Robert, [425]
• Oxford University, [210]

• P
• Pacific Ocean, discovery of, [236]
• Paine, Thomas, [346]
• painting, [439]-[440]
• Palestine, [41]
• Papin, [405]
• Paris, University of, [210]
• Paul, [119]-[123]
• Paul I (Russia), [355], [367], [368]
• Peloponnesian war, [81]-[82]
• Pepin, [145]
• Pericles, [81]-[82]
• Persia, [45], [47]
• Persian wars with Greece, [74]-[80]
• Peter the Great, [307]-[311]
• Peter the Hermit, [169]
• Petrarca, [213]-[214]
• Piano, [443]-[444]
• Pilgrims, [329]
• Pius VII, [353]
• Plataea, battle of, [80]
• Pharnaces, [115]
• Pharaoh, [27]
• Philip II (Spain), [283], [288], [267]-[270]
• Philip of Macedon, [83]
• Philippe Egalité, [392]
• Philippine Islands, [237]
• Phoenicians, [42]-[43]
• Phoenician alphabet, [43]
• Poitiers, battle of, [142], [144]
• Poland, [374]
• Pompey, [113], [114]
• Pontius Pilate, [121]-[123]
• Pope, [123]-[137]
• Pope vs. Emperor, [162]-[167]
• Portugal, [375]
• Prester, John, [229]-[231]
• Priests, first mention of, [24]
• Printing, [223]
• Protestants and Catholics, [262]-[278]
• Prussia, [313]-[316]
• Ptolemean system of the universe, [231]
• Ptolemy, [28]
• Punic Wars—
• 1st war, [97]-[98]
• 2nd war, [98]-[103]
• 3d war, [103]-[104]
• Puritans, [289], [326]-[327]
• Pyramids, [25]-[26]

• Q
• Quintus Fabius Maximus, [100]-[102]

• R
• Rafael, [222]
• Ravenna, [127], [211]
• Reformation, [251]-[278]
• Reform Bill, [418]
• Reichstadt, Duke of, [360]
• Religion, origin of, [23]-[24]
• Rembrandt, [440]
• Renaissance, [206]-[223]
• Richard the Lion Hearted, [186], [187]
• Richelieu, [276]
• Robespierre, [346], [347]
• Roland, [146]
• Rollo, [151]
• Roman Church, [131]-[137], [253]-[255]
• ““in England, [279]
• “conquest of England, [279]
• “Empire, [117]-[130]
• “Slaves, [109]-[110]
• Rome, [88]-[130]
• conquers Greece, [106]-[107]
• conquers Syria, [107]-[108]
• earliest history, [91]-[96]
• fall of, [124]-[130]
• Romulus Augustulus, [127]
• Rosetta Stone, [18]-[19]
• Roumania, [387]
• Rousseau, Jean Jacques, [336]
• Rudolph of Hapsburg, [167]
• Rumford, Count, [410]
• Rump Parliament, [289]
• Runnymede, [186]
• Rurik, [302]
• Russia, [301]-[312], [380]
• Russo-Japanese War, [464]
• Ryswick, Peace of, [299]

• S
• Sabines, [93]
• St. Helena, [359]
• Salamis, [79]
• Salerno, University of, [210]
• Sarajevo, [455]
• Savonarola, [217]
• Schliemann, Heinrich, [48]-[50]
• Scientific Progress, [427]-[432]
• Scipio, Lucius, [108]
• Scipio, Publius, [103], [106]
• Serbia, [454]
• Serfs, [306]
• Shakespeare, [286], [441]
• Sicily, [393]
• Slavery abolished, [422]
• Socialism, [425]-[426]
• Solferino, battle of, [396]
• Solon, [64]
• Spain, [375]
• Spanish Armada, [271], [284]
• Spanish Succession, war of, [299]-[300]
• Sparta, [77]-[82]
• Star Chamber, [282]
• Steamboat, [406]-[408]
• Steam Engine, [404]-[405]
• Stephenson, George, [408]
• Stuarts, [286]-[292]
• Sulla, [111]-[113]
• Sumerians, [32]-[37]
• Sweden, [311], [374]
• Swedish Parliament, [188]
• Swiss Assemblies, [189]

• T
• Talleyrand, [363]-[365], [368], [371], [373]
• Taoism, [247]
• Ta’ Rifa, [228]
• Tartar Invasion, [304]-[306]
• Telegraph, [410]-[411]
• Telephone, [411]
• Ten Commandments, [40]
• Teutoburg Woods, [118]
• Theatre, [71]-[73], [441]
• Thebes, [28]
• Themistocles, [77]
• Theodoric, [127]
• Thermopylae, [78]
• Third Estate, [342]-[345]
• Thirty Years’ War, [273]-[278]
• Tilly, [274]-[276]
• Tory, [292]-[293]
• Toussaint l’Ouverture, [383]
• Trafalgar, [354]
• Triple Alliance of 1664, [298]
• Troy, [48]-[49]
• Turgot, [388], [417]

• U
• Universities, origin of, [208]-[211]