Herbert Wells - A Short History of the World

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

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

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, 192, 227, 243, 253, 255, 287, 399, 409, 430, 431

Persian Empire, 112, 134, 238, 429

Persian Gulf, 77, 78, 91, 299

Persian language, 95

Persians, 100, 108, 109, 115, 155, 174, 431

Peru, 74, 75, 314, 321

Pestilence, 305, 320, 334, 413, 430, 431, 433

Peter the Great, 327, 434

Peter the Hermit, 269, 270

Peterhof, 327

Petersburg, 127, 419. ( See also Petrograd)

Petrograd, 416, 417. ( See also Petersburg)

Petschenegs, 268

Phalanx, 145, 178

Pharaohs, the, 90, 96, 119, 131, 150, 188

Pharsalos, 430

Philadelphia, 358, 434

Philip, Duke of Orleans, 350

Philip, King of France, 285

Philip II, King of Spain, 314, 324

Philip of Hesse, 313

Philip of Macedon, 145, 146, 430

Philippine Islands, 302, 393, 400

Philistines, 100, 117

Philosopher’s stone, 257

Philosophers and Philosophy, 133, 139, 152, 168, 239, 294, 295

Phœnicians, 92, 94, 107, 123, 147

Phœnix , steamship, 358

Phrygians, 100, 108

Physiocrats, 371

Picture writing, 56, 57, 78, 79, 167

Piedmont, 345

Pirates and Piracy, 92, 179, 180, 200, 263

Pithecanthropus erectus, 45

Pizarro, 314

Plague, ( See Pestilence)

Planetoids, 2

Planets, 2

Plant lice, 13

Plants, 22, 23, 36

Platea, battle of, 136, 430

Plato, 140, 142, 144, 170, 370- 71

Platypus, duck-billed, 34

Plebeians, Roman, 176, 177, 187-88

Plesiosaurs, 29, 30, 36

Poison-gas, 413

Poitiers, 432

Poitiers, battle of, 253, 259

Poland, 288, 327, 353, 434

Poles, 288, 419

Political experiment, age of, 318 et seq.

Political ideas, development of, 370 et seq.

Political science, founder of, 144

Political worship, 412

Polo, Marco, 299-300

Polynesian races, 71

Pompey the Great, 192, 193, 196, 198, 430

Pontifex maximus, 237, 261

Popes. ( See Papacy)

Population, 379, 383

Port Arthur, 400, 403

Portugal, 340, 394, 396, 431

Portuguese, 302, 329, 332, 400

Porus, King, 149

Potato, 76

Potsdam, 327

Pottery, 75, 87X

Prague, 433

Prescott, 314

Priestcraft (including Priests), 64, 68, 69, 74, 75, 77, 83, 111, 114 et seq. , 122, 131, 132, 167, 174, 275, 277

Primal Law , 61

Primates, 43. ( Cf. Mammalia)

Printing, 80, 153, 247, 255, 298, 302, 305, 306, 320, 322, 329

Priscus, 234

Property, 274, 372, 374, 375

Prophet, Muhammad as, 249

Prophets, Jewish, 118, 122 et seq.

Proprietorship, 373

Protestantism, 316, 324, 327, 351, 400

Proverbs, book of, 116

Prussia, 327, 348, 351, 390, 391, 392, 434, 435

Prussia, East, 412, 415

Psalms, 116

Psammetichus I, 109, 429

Psycho-analvsis, 69

Pterodactyls, 28, 29, 31, 36

Ptolemy I, 149, 150, 151, 186, 211

Ptolemy II, 151, 186

Punic language, 203

Punic Wars, 180 et seq. , 187, 188, 430

Punjab, 163, 199

Puritans, 335

Pygmies, 397

Pyramids, 69, 83, 100

Pyrenees, 253, 432

Pyrrhus, 178, 179, 430

Quebec, 434

Quinqueremes, 180

Quixada, 314

Races of mankind, 71 et seq.

Railways, 322, 350, 357, 382, 383, 384, 389, 395, 396, 409, 434

Rain, 9, 10

Rameses II, 96, 147, 429

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.