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Part 31

Rasputin, 415, 416

Ratisbon, Diet of, 313

Ravenna, 431

Reading, 176

Rebus, 79

Red deer, 56

Red Sea, 91, 118, 122, 196

Reformation, the, 308

Reindeer, 43, 49, 51, 56, 73

Religion, and the creation of the world, 1; and organic evolution, 16; primitive, 61, 64

Religions, 172, 222 _et seq._, 240 _et seq._, 319. (_Cf._ Buddhism, Christianity, etc.)

Religious developments under the Roman Empire, 208 _et seq._

Religious wars, 270, 304, 313. (_Cf._ Crusades)

Reptiles, the age of, 26 _et seq._; mental life of, 38

Reproduction, 17 _et seq._

_Republic_, Plato’s, 142

Republic, the Assimilative, 187

Republics, 187 _et seq._, 236, 308, 324, 328, 340, 343, 344, 416, 433, 434, 435

Republicans, the first, 131

Retreat of the Ten Thousand, 150

Revolution, 342 _et seq._, 349 _et seq._, 390, 404, 416, 435

Rhine, 200, 227

Rhine languages, 236

Rhineland, 270, 306

Rhinoceros, 43, 49

Rhodes, 108

Rhodesia, 407

Rhodesian man, 52

Richelieu, Cardinal, 324

Richmond, U.S.A., 386, 388, 389

Roads, 114, 187

Robertson, 316

Robespierre, 345, 346, 434

Robinson, J. H., 284

“Rocket,” Stephenson’s, 356

Rock pictures, 57, 78

Rocks as record of beginnings of life, 11 _et seq._

S

Sabellians, 224

Sabre-toothed tiger, 43

Sacrifice, 102, 103, 167, 174, 182, 186, 211, 212. (_Cf._ also Blood sacrifice, Human sacrifice)

Sagas, 106

Saghalien, 404

Sailing ships, 91, 336

St. Angelo, castle of, 312

St. Helena, 407

St. Sophia, church of, 238

Saladin, 272, 432

Salamis, battle of, 180, 430

Salamis, bay of, 136

Salerno, 282

Samarkand, 256, 297

Samnites, 430

Samos, 129

Samson, 116

Samurai, 401

San Francisco, 383

Sandstones, 26

Sanskrit, 95, 107, 156

Sapor I, 430

Saracens, 264, 265, 297

Saratoga, 338

Sardanapalus (Assurbanipal), 98, 109, 111

Sardinia, 182, 185, 232, 309, 351, 390

Sardis, 98

Sargon I, 90, 92, 109, 122, 429

Sargon II, 97, 109, 429

Sarmatians, 100

Sassanid dynasty, 227, 241, 430

Saturn (planet), 2, 3

Saul, King of Israel, 118, 429

Saul of Tarsus. (_See_ Paul, St.)"

_Savannah_, steamship, 258

Savoy, 334, 351, 390

Saxons, 230, 265

Saxony, Elector of, 310

Scandinavians, 329

Scarabeus beetle, 209

Scheldt, 344

Schmalkaldic League, 312

Science, 144

Science and religion, 243

Science, exploitation of, 362

Science, physical, 412

Scientific societies, 322

Scipio Africanus, 182, 187

Scorpion, sea, 13, 18, 23

Scotland, 306, 307

Scott, Michael, 282

Scythia, 429

Scythians, 100, 108, 134, 135

Sea trade, 91

Sea worms, 13

Seasons, the, 68

Seaweed, 13

Sedan, 391

Seed-bearing trees, 26

Seleucid dynasty, 183, 186, 196, 199

Seleucus I, 149, 163

Seljuks, 267, 268, 272, 432

Semites and Semitic peoples, 88, 89, 91, 92, 94, 107, 115 , 122, 134, 174, 233, 256, 258

Semitic language, 202, 243

Sennacherib, 97

Serapeum, 211, 213

Serapis, 211, 212

Serbia, 179, 200, 227, 228, 292, 354, 411

Serfdom, 207

Seven Years’ War, 434

Severus, Septimius, 202

Seville, 202, 213, 302

Shang dynasty, 103, 168

Sheep, 77

Shell necklaces, 56

Shellfish, 13

Shells, as protection against drying, 18

Sherman, General, 387, 388

Shi Hwang-ti, 173, 180, 430

Shimonoseki, Straits of, 402

Shipbuilding, 359, 360, 400

Ships, 91, 119, 122, 149, 180, 196, 320, 322, 336

Shishak, 119

Shrubs, 16

Shumanism, 298

Siam, 166

Siberia, 334

Siberia, Eastern, 419

Siberian railway, 403, 409

Sicilies, Two, 287

Sicily, 108, 122, 129, 134, 178, 179, 182, 185, 188, 323, 263, 279, 280

Sidon, 92, 122, 123, 134, 147

Silurian system, 19

Silver, 80, 102, 335

Sind, 394

Sirmium, 227

Skins, use of; for clothing, 56 for writing, 75; inflated as boats, 91

Skull, Rhodesian, 52

Slavery (and slaves), 94, 102 , 188, 191, 194, 203 _et seq._, 236, 320, 337, 373, 374, 384-86, 388, 430, 433

Slavonic language, 236

Slavs, 263, 265

Smelting, 87, 104, 322

Smith, Adam, 377

Smith, Eliot, 69

Snakes, 27, 28

Social reform, 125

Socialism, 371, 416, 417, 434

Socialists, 375 _et seq._

Socialists, primitive, 374

Society, primitive, 60

Socrates, 140

Solomon, King, 119, 122, 127, 429

Solomon’s temple, 119

Sophists, 140

Sophocles, 139

South Carolina, 385

Soviets, 417

Space, the world in, 1 _et seq._

Spain, 93, 106, 122, 123, 180, 185, 230, 232, 236, 253, 255, 256, 309, 348, 349, 350, 393, 429, 431; relics of first true man in, 53

Spain, North, 431

Spanish, 329, 331

Spanish language, 203

Sparta, 129, 130, 136, 203

Spartacus, 191, 192, 203, 430

Spartans, 136

Species, generation of, 17; new, 36

Speech, primitive human, 63

Spiders, 23

Spiral nebulæ, 5

Spores, 24

Stagira, 142

Stamford Bridge, battle of, 286

Stars, 68, 257

State, modern idea of a, 375

State ownership, 374

States General, the, 341, 434

Steamboat, 340, 357 _et seq._, 374, 382, 395, 396

Steam engine, 151, 152, 359

Steam hammer, 359

Steam power, 322

Steel, 322, 359-60

Stephenson, George, 356

Stilicho, 230, 234, 431

Stockholm, 417

Stockton, 356, 434

Stone age, 53, 59

Stone implements, 45, 65

Stonehenge, 106, 429

Story-telling, primitive, 62

Styria, 309

Submarine campaign, 423

Subutai, 289

Sudan, the, 405

Suevi, 431

Suleiman the Magnificent, 310, 312, 432, 433

Sulla, 192, 237

Sumeria and Sumerians, 77, 78 _et seq._, 87, 88, 90, 91, 122

Sumerian Empire, 429

Sumerian language and writing, 77, 78, 79

Sun, the, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10

Sun worship, 211

Sung dynasty, 290

Susa, 114, 135, 148, 149, 155

Suy dynasty, 245

Swastika, 70

Sweden, 306, 313, 348

Swedes, 326, 329, 330, 351

Swimming bladder, 24

Switzerland, 327, 347, 350, 433

Syracuse, 151, 154, 170, 178

Syria, 88, 91, 115, 119, 122, 138, 238, 243, 249, 290, 431

Syrians, 96, 98

T

_Tabus_, the, 61

Tadpoles, 26

Tagus valley, 314

Tai-Tsung, 247, 431

Tang dynasty, 200, 245, 247, 287, 431

“Tanks,” 413

Taoism, 174, 222. (_See also_ Lao Tse)

Taranto, 178

Tarentum, 178

Tarim valley, 430

Tartars, 167, 197, 232, 243, 288, 290, 334

Tasmania, 59, 322, 393

Tattooing, 70

Taxation, 271, 337

Tea, 247, 337

Teeth, 19, 20

Telamon, battle of, 182

Telegraph, electric, 340, 358, 382, 384, 396

Telescope, 355

Temples, 77, 83, 101, 129, 131, 167, 174, 184, 186, 211, 212, 213, 240

Tennessee, 386

Testament, Old, 115, 116

Teutons, 431

Texas, 384, 385

Texel, 344

Thales, 131, 161

Thebes, 101, 102, 129, 136

Theocrasia, 209

Theodora, Empress, 238

Theodoric the Goth, 236, 431

Theodosius II, 234, 238

Theodosius the Great, 226, 229, 431

Thermopylæ, battle of, 136, 430

Thessaly, 145, 178

Thirty Years’ War, 326

Thothmes III, 96, 127, 147, 429

Thought and research, 140

Thought, primitive, 60 _et seq._

Thrace, 135

Three Estates, council of the, 285

Three Teachings, the, 170

Tiberius Cæsar, 195, 214, 430

Tibet, 196, 400

Tides, 18

Tigers, 42, 43

Tiglath Pileser I, 97, 429

Tiglath Pileser III, 97, 108, 109, 429

Tigris, 77, 84

Time, 5, 6

Timor, 329

Timurlane, 290, 334

Tin, 360

Tiryns, 108

Titanotherium, the, 39, 42

Tonkin, 402

Tortoises, 27, 28

Toulon, 345

Trade, early, 83, 88

Trade, Grecian, 129

Trade routes, 119

Traders, 132, 335

Traders, sea, 92

Trafalgar, battle of, 348

Trajan, 195, 430

Transport, 319, 358, 382

Transvaal, 398

Transylvania, 195

Trasimere, Lake, 182

Trench warfare, 412

Trevithick, 356

Tribal life, 61

Trilobites, 13

Trinidad, 407

Trinil, Java, 45

Trinitarians, 224

Trinity, doctrine of the, 224, 261

Triremes, 180

Triumvirates, 194

Trojans, 94

Troy, 92, 127

Troyes, battle of, 235, 431

Tsar, title of, 327

Tshushima, Straits of, 404

Ts’i, 173

Ts’in, 173, 431

Tuileries, 342, 343

Tunis, 185

Turkestan, 77, 108, 148, 196, 197, 198, 199, 245, 253, 287, 290, 292, 334

Turkey, 390, 411

Turkoman dynasty, 405

Turkomans, 334

Turks, 167, 197, 243, 245, 263, 267, 287, 292, 310, 312, 334, 353, 354, 434

Turtles, 27, 28

Tushratta, king of Mitanni, 97

Twelve tribes, the, 116

Tyrannosaurus, 28

Tyre, 92, 118, 119, 122, 123, 134, 147

U

Uintatheres, 42

Uncleanness, 68

United States, 357, 410, 411, 422, 434; Declaration of Independence, 338; treaty with Britain, 339; expansion of, 382 _et seq._

Universities, 295, 304, 355, 361

Uranus, 2, 3

Urban II, Pope, 268, 272, 432

Urban VI, Pope, 285, 433

Utopias, 140, 142, 144

V

Valens, Emperor, 229

Valerian, 430

Valladolid, 314, 315, 316

Valmy, battle of, 434

Vandals, 227, 229, 230, 232, 431

Varennes, 343, 434

Vassalage, 259

Vatican, 265, 266, 272, 285

Vedas, 106

Vegetation of Mesozoic period, 28

Veii, 177, 178

Vendée, 345

Venetia, 235

Venetians, 301

Venice, 235, 272, 274, 294, 327, 351, 432

Venus (goddess), 213

Venus (planet), 2, 3

Verona, 345

Versailles, 325, 327, 341, 342

Versailles, Peace Conference of, 421

Versailles, Treaty of, 421, 422

Vertebrata, 19; ancestors of, 20

Verulam, Lord, (_See_ Bacon, Sir Francis)

Vespasian, 430

Vesuvius, 191

Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy, 435

Victoria, Queen, 394, 434

Vienna, 292, 312, 433, 434

Vienna, Congress of, 348, 349, 350

Vienna, Treaty of, 355

Vilna, 356

Vindhya Mountains, 159

Virginia, 337, 383, 386

Visigoths, 227, 229, 232, 235, 259, 431. (_Cf._ Goths)

Vitellus, 430

_Vittoria_, ship, 302

Viviparous mammals, 33

Vivisection, Herophilus and, 151

Volcanoes, 37

Volga, 200, 227

Volta, 358

Voltaire, 328

Votes, 382

W

Waldenses, 276, 280, 305

Waldo, 276

Walid I, 432

War and Warfare, 96, 344, 390, 422

War of American Independence, 338 _et seq._

Warsaw, 353

Washington, 340, 357, 383, 386, 389

Washington, Conference of, 425

Washington, George, 338

Waterloo, battle of, 348

Watt engine, 356

Weapons, 100, 106

Weaving, 65, 75

Wei-hai-wei, 400

Wellington, Duke of, 348

West Indies, 330, 385, 393, 394

Western Empire, 431

Westminster, 306

Westphalia, Peace of, 326, 355, 433

Wheat, 66, 104

White Huns. (_See_ Ephthalites)

William Duke of Normandy (William I), 432

William II, German Emperor, 410, 435

Wilson, President, 422, 423, 424

Wings, birds’, 32

Wisby, 294

Wisconsin, 385

“Wisdom lovers,” the first, 133

Witchcraft, 68

Wittenberg, 306

Wolfe, General, 434

Wolsey, Cardinal, 324

Wood blocks for printing, 247

Wool, 102, 395

Workers’ Internationals, 377

World, The, creation of, 1; in time, 5 _et seq._

Wrangel, General, 419

Writing, 74, 75, 78, 79, 80, 94, 124, 176; dawn of, 57

Wycliffe, John, and his followers, 286, 304, 433

X

Xavier, Francis, 400

Xenophon, 150

Xerxes, 136, 138, 147, 150

Y

Yang-Chow, 300

Yang-tse-Kiang, 173

Yangtse valley, 173

Yarmuk, battle of, the, 253, 431

Yedo Bay, 401

Yorktown, 338

Yuan dynasty, 290, 433

Yucatan, 74

Yudenitch, General, 419

Yuste, 314, 317

Z

Zama, battle of, 182, 430

Zanzibar, 329

Zarathustra, 241

Zeppelins, 413

Zero sign, 257

Zeus, 211

Zimbabwe, 397

Zoophytes, fossilized, 13

Zoroaster (and Zoroastrianism), 241, 243, 255