Index






Aaron, Saint

’Abdullah bin Muhammad

’Abdu’r-Razzaq bin Ishaq

Abhara

abolition of slavery

Aboriginal Australians

Abu Bakr bin Uman al-Lamtuni

Abyssinia

Aceh

Achaemenids

Adam, Bishop of Bremen

Aden

Adulis

Aegean

palace life in

Aeschylus

Afghanistan

harvesting in

Africa

access to Indian Ocean from

as “dark continent,”

effects of slave trade on

in 1490s

grasslands in

highland civilizations in

ship wreckage off

tropical lowlands in

see also East Africa; Sahel; West

Africa; specific places

African masks

agriculture

in Arabia

in Benin

in China

deforestation and

in desert areas

in Egypt

in Ethiopia

gathering vs.

in grasslands

of Greeks

of Inca

in Indus Valley

intensive, early

intensive, industrialization compared

with

Khmer state and

of Kimam

in Mesopotamia

mound

in New Guinea

in North American woodlands

in rain forest

as religious response

agriculture, continued

slash-and-burn

swampland

in Tibet

Ah Cacau, King of Tikal

Ahmad ibn Ibrahim

Ahuizotl

Ahura Mazda

airplanes

Akenzua I, oba of Benin

Akkad, Akkadians

Akrotiri

Aksum

Alaska:

Nakaciuq (Bladder Festival) in

U.S. acquisition of

Aleut

Alexander the Great

Alexandria

lighthouse of

Alfred, King

Algeria

Ali

al-Idrisi

Ali Ghadj, King of Bornu

’Ali ibn-al Marshushi

Allchin, Bridget

Allchin, Raymond

alluvial soils in drying climates

advantages of

archetypes of

early intensifiers of agriculture in

see also great river valleys

al-Maghli

al-Mansur, Ahmad

al-Masudi

Almoravids

alphabet, Phoenician

Altai Shan

Altan Khan

Altin

Amalia (Marmol)

Amalia Effect

Amazing Grace

Amazon rain forest

Amazon River

Amazons, myth of

amber

American Revolution

Amsterdam

Amun, oracle of

Anatolia

Anaximander

Andalusia

Andaman Islands

Andes

diversity of

highland civilization in

Angkor

agriculture of

temple plan for

Angkor Thom

Angkor Wat

Angola, slave trade in

animals:

gods as

humans compared with

as sacrifice

see also specific animals

Annam

Antarctica

anthropology

Antigone (Sophocles)

Antigua

Antipater of Sidon

Anuradhapura

Anuta

Anyang

Aquinas, Saint Thomas

Arabia

maritime civilization of

Sabaeans of

Arabian Desert

Arabian Sea

Arabic language

Arabs

Islam’s transformation of

maritime

Marsh

science of

as threat to Roman empire

Tibet’s collaboration with

trade of

Araucanos

architecture:

American

of Arctic peoples

of Atlantic civilization

of Battamaliba

of Benin

of Borobudur

of catalhuyuk

of Chaco culture

of Chola

of Easter Island

of Ethiopia

Gothic

of Gozo

of Greeks

imitation of trees in

of Inca predecessors

of Jenne

of Jericho

of Khmer

of Kimam

in Las Vegas

longhouses

of Mali

of Malta

of Maya

of Nupe

of Phoenix

Arctic

in Finnish tradition of scholarship

New World

Old World

Arctic Circle

Arctic Ocean

Ardashir, King of Persia

Argentina

novel in

pampa in

Arikara

Aristeas of Proconnesus

Aristophanes

Aristotle

Boethius’s use of

Renaissance and

Arizona

see also Phoenix, Ariz.

Armadillo (Boyd)

Armenia, Armenians

art

American

of Aztecs

of Benin

cave paintings

Chinese

of Chola

of Deccan

Dutch

Egyptian

of Ethiopia

as expression of power vs. liberty

Futurist

Greek

Harappan

Hindu

of Inca

Indian

industrialization and

Japanese

Khmer

landscape painting

of Malta

maritime

of Maya

of Minoan Crete

of Moche

of Nazca

Olmec

Phoenician

“primitive” influence on

realism in

Renaissance

Roman

Russian

in Sahara

Sasanian

of Teotihuacan

Tibetan

Venetian

art,continued

of Vikings

wild men in

Artemis of Ephesus, temple of

Arthur, King

Ashurbanipal

Asia

Islamic preponderance in

migration to Americas from

see also Southeast Asia;specific places

Assyrians

astrolabes

astronomy

Atahualpa, ransom of

Athens

Atlantic alliance

Atlantic civilizations

commercial benefits as impetus of

crises and renewals of

European origins of

imperial phase of

making of

and power of culture

as reflection of Europe

replacement of

slavery and

technological strand in

unprecedented aspect of

see also Western civilization

Atlantic Ocean

currents in

edge of,see Rimland

as narrow, belief in

significance of Vasco da Gama’s voy-

age for

travel times for

winds in

Attenborough, Sir David

At the Mountains of Madness (Love-

craft)

Attila

Augustine, Saint

Aum Shinrikyo cult

Australia

Aboriginals of

Avalokitesvara

Avars

Awga

Ayacucho Valley

Azerbaijan

Azores

Aztecs

cultural context of

in 1490s

highland civilization of

Inca compared with

loose hegemony of

Spanish conquest of

structural weakness of

trade of

tribute for



Babur, Emperor of India

Babylon

Hanging Garden of

Bacon, Roger

Baeda Maryam

Bagby, Philip

Bagehot, Walter

Baghdad

Bagratids

Bahrain

Bahrey

Balbus, Cornelius

Balkans

ball court of Chichen Itza

ball game, pre-Hispanic

Baltic Sea

Baluchistan

Bank, Ted, II

Bao He

Baptists

Barbados

barbarism, barbarians

Chinese view of

of forest

highlanders as

of Mongols

Roman empire and

Barbosa, Duarte

Barcelona

Bardarsson, Ivar

barley

Barnhouse, temple complex at

Barros, Jo„o de

Bar Sauma, Rabban

Barth, Heinrich

Baruya

Basic Problems, Principles and Methods

(Sorokin)

Basques

Batavia

Battamaliba

Bayezid I, Ottoman Sultan

Bayezid II, Ottoman Sultan

“Beaker Folk,”

beans

Aztec use of

beavers

Becket, Saint Thomas

Bede

Bedouin

Begho

Bell, Clive

Belvedere Apollo

Bengal

Renaissance in

Bengal, Bay of

Benin

Bergen

Bergson, Henri

Bernard, Saint

Bernard the Wise

Bessemer, Sir Henry

Bessemer process

Bhutan

Biarmians

Bible

biological warfare

bird life, birds:

of Easter Island

of Hirta

homing

Birthplace of the Winds (Bank)

birth rates, increase in

Biscay, Bay of

Bisch, Jorgen

black blood, myth of

blacks

European image of

free

see also slaves, slave trade

Black Sea

Blake, William

Blanco, Pedro

Blue Rider group

Blunden, Edmund

Boas, Franz

boats,see ships and boats

Bockstoce, John

Boeotia

Boethius

bog peoples

Bon

Bonampak

Boniface, Saint

Book of Odes

Book of Songs, The (Waley)

Book of the Wonders of India, The

(Buzurg ibn Shahriyar)

books:

burning of

of Maya

Borneo

Bornu

Borobudur

Bosi, R.

Bosnia

Boston, Mass., Irish in

bow and arrow

Bowie, Jim

Boyd, William

brain, evolution of

Brancusi, Constantin

brass

of Benin

Brattahlid

Braudel, Fernand

Brazil

Amazon in

“first-contact” program in

slavery in

Brazil Current

Bremen

bridges, Inca

Bristol

Brittany

underground tombs in

Brodgar, stone circles of

BrokenSpears , The (Leon-Portilla)

bronze

of Benin

in China

Bronze Age

Brougham, Henry

Brow, James

Brown, D. M.

Brudevaelte

Brunel, Isambard Kingdom

Bryce, James

bSod-nams rGya-mtsho, Third Dalai

Lama

Buddha

Buddhism, Buddhists

in China

in Indonesia

Jataka and

of Khmer

in Maldives

in Tibet

trade and

Buenos Aires

buffalo

Buffon, Georges-Louis

Bugis

Bulgars

bull-sacrifice rites

Buondelmonti, Cristoforo

Bure

Burma

Burney, Fanny

Burton, Sir Richard

Burundi

Bury, R. G.

Bushmen

butter ceremony

Buzurg ibn Shahriyar

Byang-chub rGyal-mtshan

Byblos

Byron, George Gordon, Lord

Byzantium

Venice’s relationship with



Cabet, …tienne

Cabot, John

Cabot, Sebastian

cacao, chocolate

Cacapol (“Attila of the Pampa”)

Cadiz

Caedmon

Caesar, Julius

Caesar andCleopatra (Shaw)

Caesar’s Palace

Cahokia

Cajamarca, highlands of

calendars:

of Celts

of Maya

Calicut

California

Callimachu

Calvinists

Cambay, Gulf of

Cambodia,see Angkor; Khmer

Cambridge History of Japan, The

(Brown)

camels

Cameo (Ghyssaert)

Canada

Canary Islands, Canary Islanders

pre-Hispanic

Cangapol (“el Bravo”)

cannibals, in New Guinea

capitalism

of Greeks

religion and

Caracol

Caractacus

Caranqui

caravans

Caria

Caribbean

caribou, hunting of

Carl of Rosenmold, Duke

Carlyle, Thomas

Caroline Islands

Carolingian Renaissancey

caramba River

Carthage

Carvajal, Gaspar de

Casas Grandes

Castren, Matthias Alexander

Catalan Atlas

Catalans

catalhuyuk

Catherwood, Frederick

Cato

cattle

Cauac Sky, King of Quirigua

caves

paintings in

cayonu

Celtic peoples

Roman relationship with

Central Asia

see also specific places

ceremonial centers:

on Easter Island

of Khmer

of Mound Builders

of Olmec

of Tula

see also temples

Chaco Canyon, roads in

Chaco culture

Chad, Lake

Chadwick, Edwin

“chain of being,”

“challenge and response,” doctrine of

Champa

Chan Chan

Ch’ang-ch’un

Chares

chariots, charioteers

Charlemagne

Charles VIII, King of France

Chartres

Chasing the Monsoon (Frater)

Chatham Islands

Chavín de Huantar

chemical warfare

Cheng Chih-lung

Cheng Ho

Cheops, Pharaoh of Egypt

Chephren, Pharaoh of Egypt

Cheyenne

Chicago, Ill., sewage disposal system of

Chichen Itza

Ch’ien-lung Emperor

Childe, V. Gordon

Chile

chilies

Chimu, Chimor kingdom

China

agriculture in

Christendom as viewed by

continuity of civilization in

as cradle

cultural revolutions in

dethronement of

diffusion of science and technology

of

Dutch as viewed by

expansion of

forests as viewed in

in 1490s

Funan relations with

Great Wall of

China,continued

Indonesian relations with

Indus Valley compared with

Islam in

Japanese conflict with, in 1890s

life of Ou-yang Hsiu in

maritime efforts of

Mongol conquest of

novel in

origins of metallurgy in

Plumb’s study of

Roman empire compared with

Russian frontier of

silk roads and

Srivijaya’s relations with

Tibetan relations with

trade of

as “world order,”

writing system of

Yellow River Valley in

see also Confucians, Confucianism;

Fukien;specific dynasties

China Seas

see also South China Sea

Ch’in dynasty

Chinese language

Chiripa

chivalry

Chola

Cholulteca

Chopin, Frederic

Chou dynasty

Chou Ta-kuan

Christianity, Christendom

in China

China compared with

Chola compared with

deforestation and

in Ethiopia

fear of trees in

in Greenland

Islam vs.

Mali’s image in

Mongols and

Nestorian

paganism compared with

Polish-Moldavian conflict and

in Roman empire

in Scandinavia

slavery and

as “world order,”

Christie, Agatha

Chuan-cho

Ch’u-fu, Literary Pavilion in

Chukchi

Chumnunga

Church of Santa Anastasia

Church of Sant’Ambrogio

Church of San Vitale

Chu’u-fei

Chu Yu-t’ang, Emperor of China

Cibola

Cistercians

cities:

as criterion of civilization

degradation of

independence of

lost

post-agrarian

slums of

see also specific cities

civic community

civility (politesse )

civilization:

Amalia Effect and

checklist of

coining of term

misleading effects of chronological

approach to

mortality of

personal attitude of author toward

as process

ranking of

of scale, resource requirements of

traditional usage of

true

unity of

see also environmental approach to

the comparative history of civili-

zation;specific topics

civilization, definition of:

author’s

idiosyncratic

misuses of

recent

usual understanding for

civilization studies, since World War I,

review of

civilizing ingredient

Clairvaux

Clark, Kenneth

class systems

in Indus Valley

in Malta

in Minoan Crete

zimbabwes and

Clement VI, Pope

Cobo, Bernabe

Cochabamba Valley

Coen, Jan Pieterszoon

Cola, King of Chola

Cold War

Coleos of Samos

Coligny, calendar buried at

Collingwood, R. G.

Cologne

Colombia

Colorado

Colossus of Rhode

Columbus, Christopher

Atlantic crossing of (1492)

Atlantic crossing of (1493)

chivalry of

marine chart of

narrow Atlantic as belief of

ships of

Columella

Comanches

comic-strip books

communications:

Atlantic civilization and

across deserts

Diamond on

Mongol peace and

communists, communism

Comoros

compass

sun

Confucians, Confucianism

seaborne venturing as viewed by

Confucius

Congo

Congress, U.S.

Consolation of Philosophy, The

(Boethius)

Constantine, Roman Emperor

Constantinople

Cook, James

coolies

Cooper, James Fenimore

Copan

copper

in Africa

Corinth

corn,see maize

Cornelis, H. C.

Cornwall

Coromandel Coast

Coronado, Francisco Vasquez de

Cortes, Hernan

cotton

Aztec need for

Courland, Duchy of

Coward, Noel

Coxinga

Cracow

Crete

Minoan

Crimea

Croesus, King of Lydia

Crops and Man (Harlan)

Crow

Cuauhtitlan

cultural relativism

culture:

civilization as “destiny” of

mass agriculture explained by

original

power of, in making of Atlantic civi-

lization

use of word

culture wholes

Curl Nose, King of Tikal

currents, in Atlantic Ocean

Cuzco

Cycladic Islands

Cyrus the Great, King of Persia



Dahomey

slave trade in

Dalai Lamas

Darius I, King of Persia

dark ages:

in Africa

of Andean civilization

of Arabs

Bronze Age crisis and

of Easter Island

in Greek culture

Darwin, Charles

Darwinism

dates

Davis, John

Davis, Lindsey

Davit, Negus of Ethiopia

Dawada

Dayaks

Dead Mongol Pass

De Agricultura (Columella)

Debussy, Claude

Decay and Restoration of Civilization

The (Schweitzer)

Deccan

deforestation

in Europe

fear of trees and

of Malta

in New World vs. Old World

de la Cerda, Luis

Delhi

Delphi

Delwaide, Jacobus

Demanet, Father

democracy

demographic balance, shift in

demons, desert

Denmark

De Pauw, Corneille

Description of the Northern Peoples

(Magnus)

desert

Arabs associated with

Bushmen in

communication across

defined

Egyptian view of

ice deserts compared with

as kind of sea

lack of greatness in

see also ice, ice deserts

development, pattern of, rejection of

Devil’s Island

dGe-lugs-pa

dhows

Diamond, Jared

Dias, Bartolomeu

Dias, Henrique

diet:

of Aleuts

of Aztecs

of Bushmen

of Inc

in Indus Valley

of Kimam

of Lake Texcoco communities

of Mongols

of North American Woodlands peo-

ple

oforan laut

of Plains Indians

of Tuareg

see also agriculture; food;specific

foods

diffusionism

great river valleys and

Dilmun

Diogenes

disease

Aleuts decimated by

in Benin

industrialization and

intensive agriculture and

malaria

Native Americans and

slavery and

unconquered

Diu

Djoser

Dobe-/Du/da

dogs:

burial of

hunting and

of Sami

of Thule

Doldrums

domino theory

Donner, Kai

Dore, Gustave

drinking rites

Druids

drums, magic

Dungeness, Jarman’s garden in

Durameau

Durkheim, …mile

Dutch East India Company

Dvoria Anton



East Africa

islands off

trade in

Yao country in

see also Ethiopia; Mweno Mutapa

Easter Island

monumental sculpture of

Ebla archives of

ecological disaster, threat of

ecological imperialism

ecology:

deep

historical

economic history

economics, economic systems:

communist

as criterion for civilization

globalization and

of slavery

in Songhay

in transformation of grasslands

of zimbabwes

see also capitalism

ecosystems

denial of

Ecuador

Ecuadorean Indians

Edsin Gol

Egypt

in

Mongol’s repulsed by

Egypt, ancient

China compared with

dethronement of

Ethiopia as viewed by

Greeks influenced by

Indus Valley compared with

Malta compared with

outsiders as viewed by

Phoenicians and

pyramids of

Romans in

science of

unification of

Eiffel, Gustave

Eight-Deer Tiger Claw

eighteenth century, civility (politesse ) in

El Dorado, last legend of

Elias, Norbert

Eliot, T. S.

El Nino

Encyclopedie

England,see Great Britain

Enki

Enkidu

Enlightenment

Enlil

Enonteki

environment:

in Argentina

civilization as type of relationship to

effects of Western civilization on

glutinous

overexploitation of

tolerance limits and

see also specific environments

environmental approach to the

comparative history of civilizations

conditioning vs. “determination” in

defined

invention of labels in

limitations of

reasons for use of

Ephesus, temple of Artemis of

epics:

ofGilgamesh

of Homer

Eretria

Erik the Red

Erskine, Rachel (“Lady Grange”)

Eskender, negus of Ethiopia

Eskimos,see Inuit

Esmeralda, maroon kingdom at

“Etchings of a Whaling Cruise”

(Melville)

Ethiopia

Christianity in

in

highlands of

trade of

Etruscans

Euboea

Euphrates River

Eurasian steppe

Mongol imperialism and

Mongol roads and

Sahel compared with

Euripides

Europe, Europeans

blacks as viewed by

bog peoples in

Copper Age Southeastern

deforestation in

eighteenth-century

industrialization of

Inuit competition with

maritime advantage of

migrationist fallacy and

pluralism in

supposed superiority of

in temperate forests vs. other

environments

writing in

see also specific places

European Union

Evans, Arthur

Evelyn, John

Even

evolution

change vs.

Ezana, King of Aksum

Ezekiel



Fahsien

Failaka

Farini, G. A.

Farkas, Sandor Boloni

farming,see agriculture

“Fayum portraits,”

feasting

feelgood society

Ferdinand, King of Spain

Fergana, Arab-Tibetan conquest of

Ferrer, Jaume

Fez

Fezzan

Finnish tradition of Arctic scholarship

fire

fish, fishing

of Dutch

oforan laut

5 –Reed

Flanders, Michael

floating gardens,”

floods, flooding

in China

of Nile

of Tigris

Florida, Spanish in

“Flower Wars,”

Fogg, Wayne

food

in Mogadishu

on ships

surplus

see also agriculture; diet;specific

foods

Foote, P.

forests

barbarism of

of Lebanon

postglacial,see postglacial forests

see also deforestation; rain forests

Forster, E. M.

Fourier, Charles

frame-first construction methods

France

cave paintings in

in

imperialism of

slave trade of

see also Paris

Francis, Saint

Franciscans

Franks

Frater, Alexander

Frazer, Sir James

Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

Frederik Hendrik Island (Kolepom and

Dolak)

French Revolution

Freud, Sigmund

Fritz, Samuel

Frobisher, Martin

“frontier effect,”

Fuegians

Fukien

maritime interests of

Fulani

Funan

furnaces, blast

fur trade

future shock

Futurism


Gades (modern Cadiz)

Galactic Museum-Keepers

Galicia, Galicians

Galla

Gama, Vasco da

chivalry of

diminishing significance of

importance of voyage

potential initiative in empire-building

and long-range commerce in era

of

present state of the world and

ships of

Gambia River

Gandhi, Mohandas K.

Ganges Valley

Gao

Garamantes

Gaskell, Elizabeth C.

gathering

Gaudí, Antonio

Gaul

Romans in

Gebre-Menfas-Qeddus

Ge’ez language

Gelele, King of Dahomey

genetic engineering

Genghis Khan

Genoese

Georgia (Eastern Hemisphere)

Bagratids of

Georgia (state), Mound Builders in

ger (Mongol tent dwelling)

Gerald of Wales

Germany

Charlemagne’s conquering of

deforestation in

forests in

Nazi

Roman relations with

Gerrha

Gesta Arthuri

Geyl, Pieter

Ghana

Ghyssaert, Peter

Gila River Valley

Gilbert, Martin

Gilgamesh , epic of

Gilgamesh, King

Giza, pyramids of

Glang-dar-ma, King of Tibet

Glasgow

globalization

Gobi Desert

Godwyn, Morgan

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Gojam

gold

in Africa

of Khmer

in New Guinea

in Peru

trade in

Golden Bough, The (Frazer)

Good Hope, Cape of

Gothenburg

Gothic Revival

Gothic style

Goths

Gozo

grains

cultivated vs. wild

nomad use of

see also specific grains

Grammaire des civilisations (Braudel)

Granada

“granary impulse,”

grasslands

of Great Plains

location of

of Sahel

of steppes,see Eurasian steppe

graves and tombs

of Aleuts

of “Beaker Folk,”

in Brittany

in Cahokia

of Celts

in China

in Egypt

in Ethiopia

of Greeks

in Indus Valley

of Maya

of Moche

of Muhammad Touray

in Mycenae

of North American woodlands

people

of Olmec

Roman

of Sami

at Skateholm

of steppe

in Tibet

in Ur

in Varna

Great Britain

Benin’s relationship with

chivalry in

in Gujarat

imperialism of

industrialization in

Irish as viewed by

in Lhasa

nature vs. culture in

Polynesians in

slavery in colonies of

in slave trade

small-island mentality of

Viking contribution to

Great Depression

Great Lakes

Great Plains

Great Pyramid of Cheops

great river valleys

in China

Nile

and refutation of diffusionism

see also Indus Valley; Mesopotamia

Great Wall

Great Wave Off Kanagawa (Hokusai)

Great Zimbabwe

Greece

Greece, ancient

Athens in

Atlantic civilization and

Boeotia in

Celtic relationship with

continuity vs. discontinuity in

deforestation in

Egypt and

Ethiopia as viewed by

Five Wonders of antiquity of

global spread of legacy of

Hanging Garden described by

as maritime society

Mycenean influence on

overseas

Persia’s relationship with

philosophy in

in Western Europe

Greek language

Greenland

Norse in

wiping out of colony in

Guatemala

Maya of

Gudea

Guiana

guides:

of Coronado

desert

Guinea, Gulf of

Gujarat

Jain influence in

Malik Ayaz in

Virji Vora in

Gulf Stream

gunpowder

guns

Guthrie, W. K. C.

Guyana

Guyot de Provins

Gyer-spungs


Habsburgs

Hadramaut

Hainan

Haiti

Hamilton, George

Hammurabi, King of Babylon

Han dynasty

Hanging Garden of Babylon

Hans, King of Denmark

Harappa, Harappans

Harlan, Jack R.

Harrington, Philip

Harun ar-Rashid

Hatshepsut, Queen of Egypt

Hausa

Hawaiian Islands

Hawihuh

Hayan Wuruk, King

Hazlitt, William

headhunters

heads, sculpture:

of Benin

Olmec

Hedin, Sven

Hemon

Henry VII, King of England

Henry the Navigator, Prince

Heracles

Heraclitus

Herbord

Herculaneum

herding

of Mongols

see also ranching, ranches

Herge

Herjulfsson, Bjarni

Herodotus

heroes:

Gilgamesh

Mesoamerican

of Western civilization

herring

Hesiod

Hideyoshi

highland civilizations

classification of

extinction of

lowland origins of

Mweno Mutapa

New Guinea

of New World

of Old World

Olmec compared with

overlooking trans-Eurasian trade

route

highlands, highlanders

advantages of

as barbarians

Maya of

Hinduism

capitalism and

in Chola

in Indonesia

Khmer and

“Hippopotamus Song, The,”

Hiroshima

Hirta

Hiru

Hispaniola

Historia del Nuevo Mundo (Cobo)

historical ecology

history:

economic

as historical ecology

as “humane” discipline

as humane vs. “scientific” pursuit

lack of repetition of

randomness of

total

as tra

“History of Civilisation” series (Parry,

ed.)

History of Human Societies, The

(Plumb, ed.)

History ofJamaica (Long)

Hitler, Adolf

Hittites

Hochkulturen

Hodges, William

Hohokam

Hokusai

Hollow Men, The (Eliot)

Homer

homosexuality

Honduras

Hong Kong

Hoover, Herbert

Hopkins, Gerard Manley

Horace

Hormuz

horses

camels compared with

of Great Plains

of steppe

Viking

hospitals, Khmer

Hou Chi (“the Ruler of Millet”)

Hsie Ch’iao

Hsuan-tsang

Huan, Lord

Huanca

Huancayo

Huari

Huayna Capac

Huexotzinca

Hui-te-Rangiroa

human being, terms for

humanism

Hundred Schools

Hungary

Hung Mai

Huns

hunting, hunters

in art

black blood and

by Bushmen

dogs and

as elite privilege

magic and

of Sami

of Shang kings

on steppe

Huntington, Ellsworth

Huntington, Samuel

Huron

Huron: Comedie, Le

Huronophilia

Hussein, Saddam

Hyksos rulers

Hylestad



Ibbitt, William

Ibn-amir Hajib

Ibn Battuta

in Indian Ocean

Ibn Hawkal

Ibn Jubayr

Ibn Khaldun

Ibn Majid

Ibn Tashfin, Yusuf

Ibn Tughluq

ice, ice deserts

followers of

sand deserts compared with

see also Arctic; Greenland

Iceland

discovery of

Newfoundland compared with

sagas of

I-Ching

Ife

Iliad (Homer)

Illinois

Ilongot

Imhotep, Pharaoh of Egypt

imperialism

Atlantic-side position and

British

of Chola

in Eurasian steppe

European justification of

Greek

Greek and Roman legacy and

Indian Ocean and

of Mongols

Ottoman

Russian

in Sahel

of Sioux

Inca

Aztec compared with

central control exerted by

in

predecessors of

protowriting of

roads of

seaborne expeditions of

Spanish conquest of

structural weakness of

India

ancient Greece compared with

Buddhism disseminated from

Chola in

in

Gujarat in

Ibn Battuta in

Islam in

maritime

origins of

Portuguese in

Renaissance in

traditional world perspective of

Indian Ocean

access problems for

Atlantic Ocean compared with

Fukienese in

as Islamic Lake

Japanese in

Mediterranean compared with

monsoons in

Portuguese in

precocity of, as zone of long-range

Indian Ocean,continued

navigation and cultural exchange

trade across

travel times for

individualism

Indochina

Indonesia

Indra

Indus River

industrialization

mass agriculture compared with

Indus Valley

China compared with

consistency of design in

end of civilization in

language of

origins of India and

Yellow River compared with

inferiority:

of floodplain dwellers

innate, E. Huntington’s views on

migrationist fallacy and

see also racism

Influence of Sea Power upon History

The (Mahan)

In Praise of Shadows (Junichiro)

European competition with

intelligence:

artificial

civilization and

Inuit

Inyanga

Iran:

highland civilization in

Tibet compared with

Iraq

Ireland, Irish

English contempt for

Irminger Current

iron

Iron Age

Iroquois

irrigation systems

in China

in desert

in Egypt

intensive agriculture and

in Yemen

Isidore of Seville

Islam, Muslims

Aristotle and

Christianity vs.

in Ethiopia

in Maldives

monuments of paganism and

in Sahel

Sufis

as threat to Roman empire

as “world order,”

Istanbul

Italy

Charles VIII in

city government in

French Revolution and

Greeks in

imperialism of

Ostrogothic

Renaissance in

I T’ing-kao

I Tsung, Emperor of China

Ivan the Great, Tsar of Russia

ivory

Iximche

Iyasus Mo’a


Jackson, Frederick George

Jacob, Duke of Courland

jade

jaguars

in Olmec art

Jainism

Jamaica, slaves in

James, William

Jamshid

Jamtland

Japan

Aum Shinrikyo cult in

China’s conflict with, in

1890s

China’s influence on

firearms abandoned in

in 1490s

Fukienese in

maritime

Mongols and

Japan Current

Japanese language

Jarman, Derek, garden of

Jataka

Java

Borobudur in

Kingdom of the Mountain and the

Empire of the Southern Seas in

Jayavarman VII, King of Khmer

Jefferson, Thomas

Jenne (Jenne-Jeno)

Jericho

Jerome, Saint

Jesuits

Jews, Judaism

Jibril

Jiddah

Jívaro

John of Piano Carpini

Johnson, Anthony

Johnson, Robert

Johnson, Samuel

Jo-Khang, portraits at

Jo-nang-pa movement

Jonathan Corncob

Jordan River

Jordan Valley

Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland

(Johnson)

Jubutsu

Julian, Roman Emperor

jungle,see rain forest

Junichiro, Tanizaki

Jurimagua

Justinian, Roman Emperor


Kaifeng

Kalahari Desert

Kaleb, King

Kalmar Union

Kamehameha

kangaroos


Kano

Karakorum

Kaskaskia

Kaverippumppattinam

Kazan

Kensai Jochin

Kentucky , slave mutiny on

Kenya

Kerowagi

Khara Khoto (Etsina)

Khitans

Khmer

Maya compared with

see also Angkor

Khmer Rouge

Khnum, Temple of

Khoikhoi

Khokhlac-Novocherkask

Khri-sron-Ide-brtsan, Emperor of Tibet

Kilwa

Kimam

Kingdom of the Mountain and the

Empire of the Southern Seas

Kingsley, Charles

Kiowa

Kipling, Rudyard

Kirgiz

Knights Hospitaller

Knossos

Koke Khota

kola nuts

Korea

Fukienese in

Japan’s relations with

Koriak

Kosovo

Kossuth, Lajos

Koumbi-Saleh

Kroeber, A. L.

Kublai Khan

Kul-Oba, royal tomb at

Kulottunga I, King of Chola

Kultur

Kumbun monastery, butter ceremony

at

Kuntur Wasi

Kupe

Kutchi

Kyoto



labor, labor force:

division of

Inca use of

for Lalibela churches

preindustrial vs. industrial

for pyramid building

slave

Ladakh

La Florida

Lagash

Lahontan, Baron de (Louis-Armand de

Lom d’Arce)

Lalibela

Lalibela, King

Landscape and Memory (Schama)

landscape painting

language

Frederick II’s experiments with

terms for human being in

see also specific languages

La Perouse, Comte de (Jean Francois

de Galaup)

Lapps, The (Bosi)

Las Vegas, Nev.

Latin Christendom,see Christianity

Christendom

Latin language

Lattimore, Owen

La Venta

La Venta culture,see Olmec

Leahy, Michael

Leaves of Grass (Whitman)

Lebanon

Lee Boo

Leeghwater, Jan Adriaenszoon

legal systems

of Khmer

Leo Africanus

Leonardo da Vinci

Leon-Portilla, M.

Lepenski Vir

Lhasa

liberalism

Libya

Li Chang

Lima, slave population in

Lindbergh, Charles

Li Po

Li Tan

literature:

abolitionist

of classical India

Egyptian

Futurist

Greek

of Iceland

industrialization and

of Indus Valley

Japanese

Maghribi

maritime

medieval

Mesopotamian

oral tradition in

Phoenician

Tibetan

travel

see also novels; poetry; short stories

Lithuania

logic, Aristotle’s formulation of rules of

London

museums in

Long, Edward

longhouses

Lorenzetti, Ambrogio

lost cities

Lothal

Loti, Pierre

Lotus bleu, Le (Herge)

Louis, Saint

Louis XIV, King of France

Loutherbourg, Philippe Jacques de

Lovecraft, H. P.

lowlands, tropical,see tropical lowlands

Lowry, Lawrence Stephen

Luce, Henry R.

Lugard, Sir Frederick

Lunda

Lutherans



Macao, Macanese

Macaulay, Thomas Babington

McCartney, Paul

Macedonia

MacNeish, Richard

Madagascar

“Mad Dogs and Englishmen” (Coward)

Madeira

Maduru Oya

Magan, kingdom of

Magdeburg

Magellan, Ferdinand

Maghribi communities, seafaring and

magic

of Arctic peoples

hunting

Taoism and

Magnus, John

Magnus, Olaus

Magyars

Mahan, A. T.

Mahavamsa , The

Mahavira

Maitrakanyoka

maize

in Amazon

of Aztecs

of Inca

of Inca predecessors

Mayan use of

in North American woodlands

Majaharo

Majapahit

Majorca, Majorcans

Malacca

malaria

Malaspina, Alessandro

Malaya

Malaysia,oran laut of

Maldive Islands

Mali

Malik Ayaz

Mallia

Malocello, Lanzarotto

Malta

Mamallapuram

Mamluks

Manchu dynasty

Manchuria

Manchurian incident (1931)

mandate of heaven

Mande

Mandingo

Manila

Chinese in

manioc

Mankweni

man-nature dichotomy

Manohara, Prince

Mansa Musa

Mansa Sulayman

Manuel I, King of Portugal

Maori

Mao Tse-tung

mapi fern

Maragha

Marajo Island

Marchinbar Island

Mar Denha

marine charts

maritime civilizations,see seaboard

civilizations

Markland

Marmol, Jorge

maroons

Marrett, R. R.

marriage, as Chinese diplomacy

Marshall, Laura

Marshall Islands

Martell, Pere

Martínez, Joan

Martinez Hernandez, Joel

Martin of Tours, Saint

Marx, Karl

Marxism

Mar Yaballaha

Masirah

masks

African

Iroquois

jaguar

Massachusetts

Massawa

Masson, Charles

Mataka, Chief

Mataram

mathematics

Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary

Maui

Mausoleum of Halicarnassus

Mausolus

Mauss, Marcel

Mawken,see oran laut

Maya

books of

collapse of

of highlands

Khmer compared with

lost cities of

Palenque and

of tropical lowlands

writing system of

Mayapan

Mayflower

Mead, Margaret

Meas Howe, tomb at

Mecca, pilgrimages to

Mediterranean

amber trade and

Celtic peoples in

deforestation in

Greek trade in

Indian Ocean compared with

Islam in

Minoan Crete in

Ottoman Turks in

Phoenicians in, see Phoenicians

Phoenicia

Romans in

travel times for

Venice’s role in

Mehmed I, Ottoman Sultan

Meket-ra

Mekong River

Melanesia

Melilla

Melville, Herman

Memphis

Mendelssohn, Felix

Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia

Menes, Pharaoh of Egypt

Mesoamerica

highland civilization of

see also Aztecs; Olmec

Mesopotamia

China compared with

Indus Valley compared with

Persia’s relations with

spread of

Messina, Straits of

metallurgy

in China

New Guinea’s lack of

in Oman

see also specific metals

Metara

Mexico

Cortes’s conquest of

slaves in

see also Aztecs; Olmec

Mexico City

Micronesia

Middle Ages

chivalry in

fear of forests in

Inuit vs. Europeans in

legends of

nautical technology in

role of Mongol roads in

Venice in

migrationist fallacy, self-deceptions and

migrations

Indo-European

to New World

to Rimland

of Sami

Milan

millet

in China

in Sahel

Miloševic¥, Slobodan

Milton, John

Ming dynasty

Mingoe

Minoan Crete

Mississippi Valley, Mound Builders of

Mithras

Mixtec

Moche

Moche Valley

Mogadishu

Mohawk

Mohenjo Daro

Moldavia, Poland’s conflict with

“Molemo Canaqua” (“Muslim Pilot”)

Mombasa

Monboddo, Lord

Mongka Khan

Mongols

domestic arrangements of

imperialism of

peace of

seafaring interests of

taming of

Tibetan relations with

Monophysite heresy

monsoons:

in Indian Ocean

in Southeast Asia

Monsoon Seas (Villiers)

Monte Alban

Montenegro

Morocco

Moscow

Mound Builders, Mississippi

mounds, mound-building:

agricultural

of New World civilizations

Mountains of Rasselas, The (Packenham)

Muhammad

Muhammad Touray, Emperor of Songhay

Mumford, Lewis

Mundigak

Munducur Indians

Munster, Sebastian

Muqaddimah, The (Ibn Khaldun)

Murasaki Shikibu

Muscovy, in 1490 s

music, American

Mussolini, Benito

Mwene Mutapa

Mycenean civilization

Indus Valley compared with

tombs of

Mycerinus, Pharaoh of Egypt

Mysterious Mr. Quin, The (Christie)

myths and legends:

of Aleut

of Amazons

aquatic

of black blood

of Chola’s founding

of ecological sensibilities of Native

Americans

of Eden

of El Dorado

myths and legends,continued

Indian Ocean in

of Japan

of John Smith

of New Zealand’s discovery

of noble savage

of origin

of Prester John

about rain forest

of Roman empire

Vasco da Gama in



Nabham, G. P.

Nabopolassar

Nagapattinam

Nagara-Kertagama (Winada-Propanca)

Nakaciuq

Namazga

Name of the Rose, The (Eco)

Napoleon I, Emperor of France

Napo River

Narasimha

Naregu

Narrative of Various Journeys in

Balochistan, Afghanistan and the

Panjab (Masson)

Natchez

nationalism, Filipino

Native Americans

effects of disease on

myth of ecological sensibilities of

revival of consciousness of

in Virginia

see also specific peoples

NATO

nature:

Amalia Effect and

catalhuyuk’s relationship with

Egyptian views on

revenge of

savagery and

Taoist view of

Naucratis

Nazca

Nazis, Nazism

Near East

see also specific places

Nebuchadnezzar II, King of Babylon

Needham, Joseph

Negri, Francesco

Nemi, Lake

Nenets

Nepal

Nestorian Christians

Netherlands

in Gujarat

maritime civilization of

in slave trade

Neubauer, John

New Deal

New England

as seaboard civilization

Newfoundland

New Guinea

highland

New Guinea Goldfields Corporation

New Mexico

New World

Arctic of

first sighting of

food distributed from

highland civilizations of

see also specific places

New Zealand

North Island of

Ngoni

Niani

Nicholas IV, Pope

Nicholas V, Pope

Nifont, Bishop

Nigeria

Niger River

Nile River

flooding of

as highway

Nile Valley

Ning-kuo

Nintu

Ni Pi-chu’ang

noble savages

Bushmen as

Huron and

myth of

Polynesians as

Noli me tangere (Rizal)

nomadism, nomadic societies

controlled

Dawada compared with

grain use of

on Great Plains

of Sahara

of steppe

noncivilizations, superior survival of

Nordic Europe

Noril’sk

Normans

Norse

in Greenland

North America

Cabot’s voyage to (1497)

English colonies in

Icelanders in

Norse in

Russian outposts in

slavery in

see also specific places

North American woodlands

civilization by the evergreen frontier

in

early civilizations of

North Pole

North Sea

Northumbrian Renaissance

Norway

novels

Argentine

Chinese

Novgorod

Nubia

nuclear war

Nupe

Nyasa, Lake

Nyatsimka Mutota



Oaxaca, Monte Alban in

Ob River

oceanic civilization

Indian Ocean as Muslim lake and

precocity of Indian Ocean and

rise of

Vasco da Gama’s voyage and

see also Atlantic civilizations

oceans, cultural transmissions and

Odes (Horace)

Odyssey (Homer)

Oedipus the King (Sophocles)

oil, offshore

oil lamps

Okino-shima, shrine of

Oklahoma

Olafsson, Thorstein

Old World:

Arctic of

highland civilizations of

see also specific places

Olivercrona, Knut

olives

olivewood

Olmec (La Venta culture)

agriculture of

ceremonial centers of

mounds of

as progenitors of Mesoamerican

civilization

Olympia, statue of Zeus of

Olympic games

Omagua

Omaha

Omai, “Prince”

Oman

Ongons

optics

oracles:

of Amun

at Delphi

in Shang dynasty

oral tradition, in literature

Orangwoks

oran laut (sea people; Mawken)

Oresteia (Aeschylus)

origin myths, Sami

Origins of Civilization, The (Wolfson Lectures)

Orkneys

Ormond, “Mongo John”

Ortega y Gasset, Jose

Oslo Ship Museum

Ostrogothic Italy

Ostyak

Othere

Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor

Otto of Bamberg, Bishop

Otto of Freising

Ottoman Turks

in 1490 s

sea power of

Ottonian Renaissance

Outer Hebrides

outsiders:

deforestation by

importance of

terms for

Ou-yang Hsiu

Ovid

Ovonramwen, Oba

Owen, Robert

oxen


Pacal of Palenque

Pacific civilization

Pacific Ocean

Inca expeditions in

wind system in

Packenham, T.

Pagan

paganism:

Christianity compared with

Ethiopia vs.

forest associated with

Greek

Islam vs.

in Srivijaya

Pai-ling Miao

Pakistan

Palembang

Palenque

Palestine

Palmares

palm-nut

palm oil

pampa

Panama, Isthmus of

pandanus nuts

P’an-lung-ch’eng

Pan-po

Pantarkes

Papago

paper

Paris

Paris, University of

Parry, John

Parthenon

Parthians

Passage to India , A (Forster)

Paul, Saint

Payne, Francis

Peacock, Thomas Love

Pechora

Peloponnese

penal colonies

pepper trade

Periplus of the Erythraean Sea

Persepolis

Perses

Persia

Arab civilization and

Christendom as viewed by

decline of

Ethiopia compared with

Mesopotamia’s relations with

Rabban Bar Sauma in

Roman empire vs.

Zoroaster in

Persian Gulf

Persian language

Peru

desert civilization in

slaves in

Spanish conquest of

see also Inca

Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia

Petrarch

Petronius

Phaistos

pharmacopoeia, Aleut

Pharos, lighthouse of Alexandria at

Pheidias

Philadelphia, Pa.

Philadelphus, King of Egypt

Philip II, King of Spain

Philip of Macedon

Philippines, influence of Renaissance

on

philosophy:

American

Greek

Phnom Penh

Phoenicians, Phoenicia

colonies of

near eradication of

trade of

writing system of

Phoenix, Ariz.

Picasso, Pablo

Picaud, Aimery

pigs, in New Guinea

pilgrims, pilgrimages:

guides for

to Mecca

Pinzon, Martin

pirates

of Chola

of Gujarat

in Japan

Malay

Turkish

Pitcairn Island

Plato

Boethius’s use of

metaphysics of

politics of

Platter, Thomas

Pliny

Plumb, Sir Jack

Pocahontas

Poe, Edgar Allen

Poetics (Aristotle)

poetry:

Chinese

Japan in

of Maya

Tibetan

Verona praised in

of Winada-Propanca

see also epics

Pokkelky

Poland, Poles

Moldavia’s conflict with

politics, political system:

American

of Atlantic civilization

of Aztecs

of Chaco culture

in China

failure of

of Hohokam

of Inca

of Indus Valley

of Moche

of Plato

of Sumer

of Vikings

zimbabwes and

Polo, Marco

Polybius

Polynesia, Polynesians

Polynesia, Polynesians,continued

in Hawaii and Easter Island

navigation of

Vikings compared with

Pomerania

Popocatepetl, volcano of

population growth:

in China

in Greece

intensive agriculture and

population shifts vs.

“Portolan charts,”

Porto Santo

Portugal, Portuguese

Atlantic coast of

Atlantic voyages of

chivalry in

Dutch relations with

in Ethiopia

free blacks and

in India

Mali’s decline and

Mweno Mutapa defended against

in Providence

ships of

slavery and

Vasco da Gama’s significance for

postglacial forests

fear of

Postl, Karl

potatoes

of Inca

pottery

Powhatan

Pragmatism (James)

Prairie, The (Cooper)

pregnancy, foods forbidden in

Prester John, legend of

primitivism, primitives

archetypal

mountain people as

romantic

Prince, Mary

printing press

Pripet Marshes

process, concept of

progress

failure of

as illusory

industrialization and

renunciation of nature and

sequences of

tradition as foundation of

Tukhachevsky’s views on

Protestant Reformation

Protestants

Proto-Indo-European

Providence, R.I.:

ice rink in

Portuguese in

Psalms

Pskov

Ptolemy I, King of Egypt

Pueblo

Pueraria lobata

Punt, land of

Puritans

Pustozersk

Puszcza Jodlowa (Zeromski)

Pylos

pyramids:

Egyptian

in Mesoamerica

Pythagoras


Qa’it Bey, Sultan of Egypt

Quakers

Quebec

Queneau, R.

“Quesqui Nahuamacehualme

Tiztoqueh?” (Martinez Hernandez)

Quigley, Carroll

quinoa

Quirigua

Quispaguanca

Quito

Quivira

Quran

racism

slavery and

Rahnama

railways

Rain Forest Crunch

rain forests

Amazon

lost civilization in

Maya in

myths about

Rajendra, King of Chola

Raleigh, Sir Walter

Ral-pa-can, King of Tibet

Ramacandra Kaulacara

Rameses II, Pharaoh of Egypt Rameses III, Pharaoh of Egypt

Ramsay, James

ranching, ranches

Raratonga

Rasselas (Johnson)

Ravenna

realism, in art

Redin

Red Sea

reindeer

religion:

black

capitalism and

mass agriculture explained by

see also specific religions

Renaissance

Carolingian

in India

Italian

Northumbrian

Ottonian

reservation system, Iroquois and

Revillagigedo group

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

Rhodes, Colossus of

rice

in China

in Japan

of Khmer

in Southeast Asia

Riegel, A.

Rift Valley

rigging, for ships

Rigveda

Rimland

climatic zones of

early phase of

migrants to

use of term

Rizal, Jose

roads and routes:

of Achaemenids

in Chaco Canyon

desert

of Inca

in Japan

Mongol

silk

Robert of Molesme

Rolfe, John

Roman Catholicism

art and

in Venice

romanticism

Rome, Roman empire

Atlantic civilization and

barbarians and

Caractacus in

Celtic relationship with

China compared with

Christianity in

collapse of

deforestation and

Egypt and

Ethiopian relationship with

global spread of legacy of

Forum in

Greek influence on

independence of

Ottoman Turks compared with

Persia vs.

Phoenicians and

runes and

as seaboard civilization

rongorongo tablets

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Rosaldo, Renato

rosary, devotion of

Rosenthal, F.

Ross, John

Roswitha of Gandersheim

Roy, Raja Rammohun

Rozwi

rubber

runic writing

Russia, Russians

Aleuts and

China’s frontier with

conquest of Siberia by

maritime efforts of

Pacific empire of

Samoyeds as viewed by

Vikings in

Rustum Shah

Rwanda

rye

Ryukyu Islands, Fukien’s tribute from


Sabaeans

sacrifice:

animal

of god

human

Safavids

Safont, Guillem

Sagard, Father

sago palm

Sahara Desert

limits of civilization in

routes across

Sahel

Ghana empire in

grasslands of

imperialists of

Islam in

Mali empire in

Songhay empire in

steppe compared with

unrealized potential for cultural

cross-fertilization in

Sailendra dynasty

Saint Augustine

Salarich, Jaume

salt

Salt River

Samarkand

Samoa

Samoyeds (Sami)

burials of

Finnish scholarship about

migration north of

as noble savages

origin myths of

reindeer herding of

Russian denigration of

San Agustín

Sand, George

sandstorms

Sang-gye Gyamtsho

San Jose de Moro

San Lorenzo

Sanlucar

Sanskrit language

Santiago de Compostela

guide for pilgrims to

Santillana del Mar

S„o Paulo

Sapur I, King of Persia

Sardinia

Sargon of Akkad

Sarmatians

Sasanians

Sa-skya

Satrunjaya

Savaatii, Abbot

savagery, savages

noble

Spanish view of

Sawyer, Edward B., Jr.

Saxo Grammaticus

Saxony

Scandinavia

Netherlands compared with

seaboard civilization of

see also Samoyeds;specific places

Schama, S.

Schweitzer, Albert

science

American

Arab

Chinese, diffusion of

Egyptian

failure of

of Greeks

Western

Science and Civilisation in China

(Needham)

Scillies

Scotland

Scythians

“Sea, The” (Byron)

seaboard civilizations

defined

Greek and Roman

identification of

in maritime Asia

maritime Netherlands

nature of

oran laut

Scandinavia

on small islands,see small-island civilizations

see also Phoenicians, Phoenicia

seals, hunting of

“Sea Peoples,”

seeds, replacement of

Sei Shonagon

self-congratulation, diffusionist illusion

and

Semenov, Pietr

Senate, Venetian

“Sending the Esteemed Master Li to

Quanzhou” (Bao He)

Seneca

Senegal River

Sennacherib

Serbia

settled life, as criterion of civilization

Seven Wonders of the World

Colossus of Rhodes

Hanging Garden of Babylon

lighthouse of Alexandria

Mausoleum of Halicarnassus

pyramids

temple of Artemis of Ephesus

Zeus of Olympia

sexuality, sex

of Khmer

in Samoa

in Tahiti

Shakespeare, William

shamans

oracles compared with

Shams al-Din

Shang dynasty

civilization checklist for

lives and duties of kings in

Shaw, George Bernard

sheep

Shield Jaguar

Shih Huang Ti

shipbuilding

ships and boats:

dhows

food stores on

of Norse

oforan laut

steam power and

umiaks

water on

Shirazi sultans

Shoa

short stories:

horror

of Wagner

Shortughal

shrimp, salt-lake

Siam

Siberia

Russia’s conquest of

Sicily

Greeks in

Sierra Leone

Sigismund I, Grand Duke of Lithuania

and King of Poland

Sigismund II, King

Sikandar Lodi, Sultan of Delhi

Sikkim

silk roads

silver

as currency

Silves, Diogo de

Simon, John

Singapore

Sinhala

Sinkiang

Sioux

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Sirwar Khan, Nawab

Skara Brae

Skateholm, burials at

Skelton, Elizabeth “Mammy,”

Skorba

Skudelev

slash-and-burn

slaves, slave trade

Atlantic civilization and

Benin and

Bushmen

in classical era

reproductive failure of

runaway,see maroons

Tuareg use of

in Virginia

Slavic peoples

slums

small-island civilizations

of Aleut

category of

Easter Island

Hawaii

Maldives

Malta

Minoan Crete

sea’s shaping of

see also Venice

small islands:

without maritime culture

mentality of

poverty and insecurity of

wealth of

smallpox

Smiles, Samuel

Smith, Adam

Smith, Dodie

Smith, John

Smoking Frog, King of Uaxactun

Social and Cultural Dynamics

(Sorokin)

socialism

society:

change in

use of word

sociobiologists:

civilization as viewed by

progress as viewed by

Socrates

soils:

deforestation and

of highlands

of Mekong Delta

in rain forest

see also alluvial soils in drying climates

Sokoto

Solomid dynasty

Solon

Somalia

Song dynasty

Songhay

in 1490s

Soninke

Sonni Ali

Sonoran Desert

Sontay

Sophocles

Sorokin, P. A.

Sostratus of Cnidus

South Africa

South China Sea

Southeast Asia

China’s influence on

in 1490s

islands of

oran laut of

rice in

seaboard civilizations of

ese also Khmer;specific places

South Sea Islands

Soviet Union

soybeans

Spain, Spaniards

in Amazon

Atlantic coast of

cave paintings in

chivalry in

conquistadores of

in Easter Island

in 1490s

in Florida

free blacks and

in Great Plains

Greeks in

Gulf Stream discovered by

Islam in

Maya and

Netherlands compared with

in Peru

Philip II’s death and

Renaissance influence in empire of

Romans in

Spanish America:

independence of

political culture of

see also specific places

Spartans

Spengler, Oswald

spice trade

Spiro

squash

Sredny Stog

Sri Lanka

“Lion Kingdom” of

Srindavarman, King

Srivijaya

Srong-brtsan-sgam-po, King of Tibet

stage, phases or cycles template for civilization

states

steam power

Stein, Aurel

stelae:

in Ethiopia

in Fukien

at Ta Promh

Stengess, stone circles of

Stephen of Ustyug

Stephens, John Lloyd

steppe,see Eurasian steppe

stirrup, invention of

Stoics

Stone Age

Stonehenge

Stormy Sky, King of Tikal

Strabo

Sudan

Sudebnik

Suez

Suez Canal

Sufis

sugar cane

in New Guinea

Suger, Abbot of St.-Denis

Sulawesi

Sulayman

Sullivan, Louis

Su-lu

Sumatra

Sumer

political system in

writing system of

Sumerian language

Sundiata

Sung dynasty

Superfund sites

superiority:

human, notion of

migrationist fallacy and

superiority,continued

Western, collapse of belief in

of Western Europe

Supreme Court, Swedish

surgery, Aleut

survival of the fittest

Suryavarman II, King of Khmer

Susa

sustainable-forest exploitation

swamps

in New Guinea

Swan, Donald

Sweden

imperialism of

Protestantism in

Supreme Court of

sweet potatoes

in New Guinea

Polynesians and

Syria

Szechwan



Tabasco

taboos:

of Bushmen

pregnancy

tree-felling and

Tacitus

Taghaza

Tahiti

Taiwan

Takla Haymanyot, Saint

Takla Makan

“Tale of the Hollow Tree,”

Tana

Tan-fu

Tanganyika

Tang dynasty

Tanjore

Taoism

Ta Promh, stela at

taro

Tartaria

Tarxien

Tarzan myth

Tasmania, Tasmanians

taxation

in China

in Egypt

see also tribute

Taz

technology

abandonment of

of Arctic peoples

of Bushmen

Chinese

Chinese, diffusion of

of Dutch

of Inca

of Iroquois

military

nautical

of New Guinea

ocean-spanning

of pyramid building

of Sami

of small islands

of steppe region

of Vikings

of Western civilization

zimbabwes and

temples:

in Chola

of Greeks

Hindu

Inca

Jain

of Khnum

Tenochtitlan

Teotihuacan

Ternate

Tertullian

Tetzacoalco

Texcoco, Lake

Thailand, Thais

Thaj

thalassocratic civilizations

Thales

Thebes

Theodoric, King of the Ostrogoths

Theophrastus

Thera

Thesiger, Wilfred

Thirst Veld

Thomas of Wrocl†aw, Bishop

Thoreau, Henry David

“Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord” (Hopkins)

Thule

Tiahuanaco

Tibet, Tibetans

Buddhism in

China’s relations with

divine kingship in

as highland civilization

Iran compared with

Mongol influence in

natural-life kingship in

rival reputations of

Tidore

Tien Shan

Tigris River

Tikal

Timaeus (Plato)

Timbuktu

Titicaca, Lake

Tlaxcalteca

tobacco

Tobago

Tocqueville, Alexis de

“To Helen” (Poe)

tolerance limits

tombs,see graves and tombs

Torgut

Tosa Diary, The

Toxandria

Toynbee, Arnold J.

trade

of Arabs

Aztec

of Benin

of catalhuyuk

of Celts

of China

of Chola

Dutch

of Ethiopia

of Fukien

fur

global

gold

in grasslands

Greek

of Gujarat

across Indian Ocean

of Khmer

language spread by

in Maldives

in New Guinea

pepper

of Phoenicians

of Roman empire

Scandinavian

slave,see slaves, slave trade

of small islands

of steppelanders

of Sumatra

trans-Eurasian

of Venice

tragedies, Greek

trans-Saharan routes

trees, sacred

Tregance, Louis

tribute

for Aztecs

for Hayan Wuruk

for Inca

for Ivan the Great

for Persian kings

from Ryukyu Islands to Fukien

for Shang dynasty

Zeker Ba’l’s refusal to pay

tropical lowlands

Amazon rain forest in

Frederik Hendrik Island

tropical lowlands,continued

Khmer civilization of

Maya of

Olmec of

swamps in

Trundholm

Tsodilo (“Slippery”) Hills

Tsong-kha-pa

Tsou-hsin

Tsu Chia

Tuareg

Tukhachevsky, Mikhail

Tula

tundra

hostility of

see also Arctic

Tun-huang

Tupac Yupanqui

Tupaia

Turfan

Turkestan

Turkey, Turks

Iran’s relations with

see also Ottoman Turks

Turkmenia

Turner, J. M. W.

turtle meat

turtle shells

Tuscarora

Tututepec

typhoons

Tyre

Tziquite


Uaxactun

Udayadityavarman II, King of Khmer

Uganda

Uighurs

Ukranians

Ulf-Krakason, Gunnbjorn

Ultima Thule

umiaks

Unamuno, Miguel de

United Provinces

United States:

Alaska acquired by

as Atlantic civilization

cultural influence of

imperialism of

independence of

Midwest in

Northwest in

Southwest in

Superfund sites in

Upanishads

Ur

Urartians

urban revolution, as criterion of civilization

Urdaneta, Andres de

Ur-Nammu

Uruk

Usuman dan Fodio

Uxmal


Valerian, Roman Emperor

Valery, Paul

Valkeap‰‰, Nils

Vancouver, George

van der Post, Laurens

van Herberstein, Sigmund

Van Loon’s Geography

varea

Varna

vehicles, wheeled,see chariots, charioteers

Veneti

Venezuela

Venice

ceremony of marrying city to sea in

Ottoman Turks vs.

Veracruz

Verona

Viaggio setentrionale (Negri)

Vieira, Antonio de

Vieira, Jo„o Fernandes

Vietnam

as seaboard civilization

Vietnam War

Vijayanagar

Vikings

Villiers, Alan

Vilnius

Virgil

Virginia, Atlantic civilization in

Virji Vora

Visigoths

Vitruvius

Vivaldi brothers

Vivekananda, Swami

Vol d’Icare, Le (Queneau)

Volney, C. F.

Voltaire

Volta Valley

Vsevolod, Prince


Wagner, Erica

Wahgi Valley

Wahhabi

Waigatz

Walata

Walden or Life in the Woods (Thoreau)

Wales

Waley, A.

walruses, hunting of

Wang An-shih

Wang Yan-bin

Wang Yuan-ling

Wanika

Waq-waq navigators

warfare, warriors:

Amazon myth and

Aztec

biological and chemical

civilizational

Inca

in Indus Valley

jihad

of Mali

in New Guinea

nuclear

pre-Hispanic ball game and

in Sahel

slave trade and

of steppe

of Tibet

Tuareg

in twentieth century

warrior-kings, Maya

“War Song of Dinas Pawr” (Peacock)

water:

on desert routes

in Kalahari

of Malta

on ships

Sinhalese management of

see also irrigation systems

wati cult

wealth gap

weather, Huntington’s views on

Weber, Alfred

Weber, Max

Weberian social theory

Weinamun

welfare systems

Wellard, James

Wessex

West Africa

Courland’s interests in

see also specific places

Western civilization

defined

limits and limitations of

revenge of nature and

self-threatened menace to

West Indies, slavery in

whales, hunting of

wheat

in China

in grasslands

White, Walter Grainge

Whitehead, Alfred North

White Lotus movement

Whitman, Walt

Wild Child of Aveyron

Wilde, Oscar

wild men

William of Orange, King of England

William of Rubruck, Friar

Wilson, Woodrow

Winada-Propanca

Winchester, Simon

Winding Road

windmills

winds:

easterlies

monsoons

trade

westerlies

Wolfson Lectures

women:

in Almoravid world

Bushmen

Khmer

Maya

Mongol

Tuareg

Wood, John Turtle

Woolworth Building

Works and Days (Hesiod)

“world orders,” use of term

World War I

World War II

Wright, Frank Lloyd

Wright brothers

writing systems

in China

as criterion for civilization

of Druids

of Easter Island

in Greece

Harappan

in India

invention of

of Maya

Minoan

oldest

of Phoenicians

problems in defining of

runic

Sumerian

of Tuareg

of Zapotecs

Wu Ting

Wu Wei

Wuyang

Wyckoff, Elizabeth


Xerxes, King of Persia

Xochimilco


Yahuar-Cocha, Lake

yam

Yamato

Yangtze River

Yangtze Valley

Yao country

Yared the deacon

Yaxchilan

Yax Pac, King

Yearsley, Ann

Yeha

Yekuno Amlak, King

Yellow Emperor

Yellow River

Yellow River Valley

Yemen

Yimrihane Krestos, King

Younghusband, Francis

Yucatan, Maya of

Yum-bu-bla-sgang, portraits at

Yunfa, King of Gobi

Yung-lo Emperor

Yupik,see Inuit

Yu the Great


Zafari

Zagwe

Zakros

Zambezi River

Zanzibar

Zapotecs

Zara-Ya’qob, negus of Ethiopia

Zaynab al-Nafzawiya

Zeila

Zeker Ba’l, King of Byblos

Zeno, Saint

Zeromski, Stefan

Zeus of Olympia

Zhou Wei

ziggurats

zimbabwes

see also Great Zimbabwe

Ziqwala

Zivilisation

Zoe, Tsarina of Russia

Zong , slaves drowned on

Zoroaster

Zoroastrianism

Zosima

Zumbi, King of Palmares