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Abdelazer or the Moor’s Revenge (Behn), 303–4
Abdul Rahman, 83–84
Aborigines, Australian, 2, 4, 5, 60–65, 71
Abraham, 269, 270, 272–75
Academia Naturae Curiosum, 76
Academy of Sciences, 133, 136, 229
Aceh, 63–64, 82
Acropolis, 266
Acta Eruditorum, 139, 219–20, 223, 231, 235, 244–45
Adam, 273
Afghanistan, 278
Africa, 32–44, 51–53, 267–68, 272
Cape of Good Hope, 69–73
Afrikaners, 71–73
Agbangla, King, 36, 38
Age of Louis XIV, The (Voltaire), 223
al-Aqsa Mosque, 296
Albanians, 262
Albemarle, duchess of, 195, 196, 198
Albemarle, dukes of, 48, 194–98
Albemarle House, 195
alchemy, 20, 243
Alexandria, 271
Algeria, 265, 267–68, 271, 272
al-Marwa, well of, 273
al-Safa, well of, 273
Altar of Heaven, 2, 121
Altona, 296, 297
Amazon River, 55–57
Ambonese Curiosity Cabinet (Rumpf/Rumphius), 74, 78
Ambonese Herbal (Rumpf/Rumphius), 74, 76–78
Ambon Island, 74–78, 80
America, 194, 198–206
Amoy, 286–87
Amsterdam, 149, 207–17, 260, 266
Amur River, 100, 101
Anabaptists, 245
Anatolia, 261
Ancient and Modern Shipbuilding (Witsen), 214
Andros, Governor, 199
Angola, 51, 53, 59
Anne, Princess, 189, 190
Anne, queen mother, 173
Antichrist, 224, 225
Antwerp, 238
apartheid, 73
Apollo, 170
Arabian Peninsula, 269–75
Arabs, 40, 41
Arakan, 286
Arzáns de Orsúa y Vela, Bartolomé, 20–24
Ascension Island, 64
Asiento, 49–51
“associates,” 273
As You Like It (Shakespeare), 182
Athens, 266, 267
Augustine, Saint, 226
Augustinian order, 29
Aurangzeb, Emperor, 2, 276, 278–84
Aureng Zebe (Dryden), 303
Australia, 1–2
Austria, 208, 250, 256–58, 263
Avignon, 173
Awakum, archpriest, 103
Aya Sofia Mosque, 258, 263
Ayutthaya, 89–92, 154
Aztecs, 14, 17
Baja California, 28–29
bakufu, 148–49, 153, 156
Balkans, 261–62, 263, 272
Baltimore, Lord, 203, 204
Banda Islands, 79–80
Bandeirantes, 57–59
Bangkok, 88, 91, 92
Bank of England, 193
Baoan, 134
Bardi people, 4, 11, 60–65
baroque style, 7, 15, 51, 54, 78–79, 87, 132–33, 159, 202, 207, 215, 216, 238, 239
Bashô, 162–65
Batavia (Jakarta), 68, 75–80, 84–86, 154
Batavia Castle, 68, 78–79
Batavia Church Council, 85, 86
Bavaria, 250
Bayle, Pierre, 5, 27, 72, 224–28, 234
Bedar people, 283–84
Bedouins, 271
beggars, 145–46, 148
Behn, Aphra, 4–5, 52, 237–41, 303–4
Beijing, 2, 106, 111, 113, 115, 126, 128–33, 142–43, 149
Beit Allah, 270
Belgium, 171, 211
Belgrade, 256, 263
Benedictine order, 245
Bengal, 283, 285–86, 288, 290
Bengkulu, 64
Benin, 36, 53
Berbers, 40, 41
bhakti movement, 277–78
Bible, the, 53–56, 177, 273, 274, 299, 302
Bibliothèque Universalle et Historique, 139
Bijapur, 277–84
Bill of Rights, 192
Bitter, John, 84–86
Black Sea, 261, 265
Black Stone, 273
Bodhisattva, 134
Bogenperk, 231–36
Bolivia, 20–25
Bombay, 285
Borjigit clan, 123
Bosporus strait, 261
Bourbons, 171
Brabant, 171
Brahmins, 277, 279, 281
Braudel, Fernand, 265
Brazil, 35, 51, 53–59, 240
Brill, The, 180
British East India Company, 87, 89, 193, 285–86, 290
British Empire, 53, 283, 285–86
British Museum, 197
Brown, Edward, 235
Brunswick-Lüneberg, duke of, 249, 250
buccaneers, 48–49, 63, 64, 196–97
Budapest, 256
Buddhism, 88–92, 111, 112, 131, 134, 138/140, 149, 152–53, 155, 290–91
Japanese poetry and, 160–65
Buglio, Father Luigi, 142
Bulgarians, 262
burgemeester, 213, 214, 217
Burma, 106
Byzantine Empire, 261–62
Caddo Indians, 11, 45–47
Cairo, 270, 271–72, 275
Calabar, 53
calculus, 243, 245, 250
Calcutta, 286
California, 48
Calvinism, 26–27, 73, 201, 207–12, 215, 224, 245
Cambridge University, 243–45
Canton, 130, 132
Cape of Good Hope, 69–73, 175, 289
capitalism, 216
Capuchin order, 33–35
Caribbean, 48–49, 51, 57, 194, 196–98
Carlos II, King, 30, 51, 171
Carniola, 231–36
cartography, 9–11
Catholicism, see Roman Catholicism
Cavelier, Robert, 46
Central Asia, 99–101, 134, 261, 262, 265
Cerknica Lake, 231, 235–36
Chakravartin, 89
Chambonneau, sieur de, 41–42, 43
Chan Buddhism, 112
Chapel Royal, 191, 302
Charles I, King, 182, 183, 184, 213
Charles II, King, 182, 185–86, 195, 197, 202, 203, 204, 247
Charnock, Job, 286
Chaumont, chevalier de, 90
Chikamatsu Monzaemon, 151–52
Child, Sir Joseph, 285
China, 99–101, 163, 251–52, 286–91
art in, 109–12
Chinese-style names, 129
Confucianism in, 105–18
corruption in, 143–44
filial piety in, 120–27
flood control, 116–17, 126
Jesuits in, 90, 93–94, 128–44
scholarship in, 105–8, 114–16
Chinese outside of China:
Batavia, 78–79
Japan, 151, 155–57
Manila, 1, 29–31
Siam, 88
Chino (Chini), Father Eusebio, see Kino, Father Eusebio
Choisy, abbot of, 90
Chosen People, 198–200
Christianity:
Islam and, 254, 265–68, 269, 274
Portugal and, see Portuguese Empire
reunion of, 249–52
Spain and, see Spanish Empire
see also specific denominations
Church Consistory, 217
Churchill, John, 181–82, 190, 193
Churchill, Sarah, 190
Churchill, Winston, 181–82, 190, 193
Church of England, 184, 187, 195
Clarke, Edward, 247–48
Clinton, Bill, 73
cloves, 75, 80–81
Cnoll, Pieter, 84
Coca, 24
coffeehouses, 260
Colbert, Jean-Baptiste, 170, 171, 229, 230–31
Cologne, bishop of, 172
Colorno, 299–301
comets, 26–27, 225, 244
Comprehensive Mirror for the Aid of Government (Sima), 108
Confucianism, 105–18
Jesuits and, 129–42
Confucius Sinarum Philosophus, 139–41, 220, 251–52
Confusion of Confusions (Penso de la Vega), 215–16
Congo, 32–35
Conjeveron, 287
Constantinople, 262, 265
see also Istanbul
Convention Parliament, 245
Convent of the Visitation, 178
Copernicus, 242
Coromandel Coast, 286–89
Coronelli, Father Vicenzo, 2, 9–11, 231
Cosmographic Academy of the Argonauts, 10
Cossacks, 98, 99
Côte d'Ivoire, 53
Couplet, Father Philippe, 138
Courcillon, Philippe de (marquis of Dangeau), 173–75, 178–79
Covenant between God and Man, 198–200
cowrie shells, 37
Coymans, Balthasar, 50–51
Coymans, Johan, 50
Crafft, Johann Daniel, 250
Creole society, Mexican, 14–15, 17
Crete, 263, 265, 266
Crimea, 97, 99
crisis of the seven bishops, 188–90
Croatia, 255, 257–58, 265
Cromwell, Oliver, 183, 185, 195, 202, 213
Cudworth, Damaris, 248–49
Cudworth, Ralph, 249
Curaçao, 50–51, 53
Dahomey, 39, 43
Dahomey gap, 36
daimyo, 146–54
Dalai Lama, 290–91
Damascus, 270, 271, 272, 275
Dampier, William, 1–2, 3, 5, 60–65, 70
Dangbe, 36
Dangeau, marquis of, 173–75, 178–79
Danube River, 255–58, 263, 264, 265
Daoism, 112
Declaration for Liberty of Conscience, 189
Declaration of Indulgence, 188, 205
Declaration of Rights, 183, 192, 193
Declaration of William of Orange, 180, 181, 182
Deer Park, 163
de Guyon, Jeanne, 177–78, 227
de la Brune, Jean, 139–40
Delaware Indians, 204
Delegated Councillors, 211, 214, 215
democracy, 247
De Morbo Gallico (Locke), 246–47
Denmark, 297
dervishes, 261
Descartes, René, 246
Desfarges, General, 91, 92
Deshima Island, 154–55
devil, 234
Devon, 181, 196
de Witt, Johan, 212
dey, 267–68
Dido and Aeneas, 303
Ding Peng, 109–11
Dinner for the Civic Guard, 213
“Disappointment, The,” 239
“Discourse on Metaphysics,” 250–51
dissections, 229–30, 231
Dissenters, 200
divan, 261
Divine Narcissus, The (Sor Juana), 19
divine right of kings, 184
Dog Shogun, 152–53
Dome of the Rock, 296
Dominican order, 29, 30, 132, 136, 137
Doña Teresa, story of, 20–23
d’Orléans, Father Pierre Joseph, 142
“dragonnade” (dragoon), 176, 187
Drakenstein Valley, 73
“drowning cell,” 208–9
Ducasse, Jean-Baptiste, 36, 39
Dutch Blue Guards, 192
Dutch East India Company, 67–92, 216, 289
in Japan, 154–56
“Dutch” style, 159
Dutch West India Company, 20, 50–51, 53, 75
Dzungars, 101, 113, 135
Eastern Tombs, 127
East India House, 207, 210
Ecclesiastical Commission, 245
Edict of Nantes, 175–76, 226
Edo, 1, 146, 148–54
Edobashi (Edo Bridge), 150
Edo Castle, 149, 150, 152, 153
educational psychology, 247–48
Egypt, 265, 271–72
Ely, bishop of, 205
England, 172, 173, 175, 179–93, 203–6, 268
see also William III of Orange, King
English Revolution, 180–94, 205–6
Enlightenment, the, 139, 141, 224, 227, 228
Erasmus Franciscus, 233, 234
Essay concerning Human Understanding (Locke), 246, 248–49
Essex, 248, 249
Esther (Racine), 177
European view of non-Europeans, 131–32
Exclusionists, 186, 188, 192
Exeter, 181, 182
Fair Jilt, The (Behn), 238
famine, 278, 282, 283, 288
Fedor, Tsar, 97
Felu Falls, 41, 43
fetishes, 35, 45
Five Women Who Loved Love (Saikaku), 160
Flanders, 171, 172
Fon, King of, 39
Fontanella family, 299–301
Fort St. George, 286, 287
France, 169–79, 193, 216–17, 266
Franche-Comté, 171
“franchises,” 173
Franciscan order, 10, 11, 29, 132
Francis of Assisi, Saint, 11
Francis Xavier, Saint, 154
Frederick Henry, Prince, 212
freebooters, 256
freedom, 247
French Company of Guinea, 36
“French disease, the,” 246–47
French East India Company, 92
French Empire:
Africa and, 41–43, 267–68
American Southwest and, 45–48
East Indies and, 87–92
French Jesuits, 131–33
French Revolution, 211, 217
French Society of Foreign Missions, 89
Friars Minor, 9
Fujian Province, 119, 120, 136, 156
Furly, Arent, 246
Furly, Benjamin, 245–46
Gabriel, angel, 269, 270
Galata, 259, 260
Galdan, Khan, 101, 113, 135
Galileo, 242
Gambia River, 39–44
Gao, 43, 44
Gate of Peace, 270
Gavurlarin Esiri (Osman Ogha), 255–58
Genghis Khan, 123
Genroku “year period,” 153
Gentlemen Seventeen, 67, 68, 78
George of Denmark, Prince, 190
Gerbillon, Father Jean-François, 133–36
Germany, 171–72, 203, 217, 266
Ghana, 36
Giustiniano, doge Marc Antonio, 267
Glorious Revolution, 180–94, 205–6, 249
Glückel of Hameln, see Leib, Glikl bas Judah
Goa, 142
God, see various religions
Golconda, 280–83, 285
gold, 20, 41, 42, 57, 82
Gold Coast, 35–36, 53
Golden Horn, 258, 259
Golitsyn, Prince Vasily, 97, 99
Golius, Jacobus, 213
Golovin, Fedor Alexseevich, 99, 100–101
Gordon, General Patrick Ivanovich, 95, 98–99
Gostling, John, 303
Grafton, duke of, 181
Grand Canal, China, 116–17, 142
Grand Trianon, 179
gravitation, 242, 244
Graz, 258
Great Mosque, 272–7 5
Great Other, 93–94
Great Qing Dynasty, 99–101, 106–44, 155, 156, 287
Greek Orthodox Church, 102
Greeks, 259, 261, 265
Grilho, Dom João Manoel, 32–35
Groslet (Gurule), Jacques, 45–47
Guam, 63
Guangdong province, 156
Guerak family, 289, 290
Gulliver’s Travels (Swift), 64
gum arabic, 40, 41, 43
Guy Fawkes Day, 181, 183
Hagar, 273
Hagia, 258
Hague, The, 210, 212, 215
haikai verse form, 159–64
Hajj, 265, 269–75, 285, 286
Halley, Edmond, 27, 235, 244
Hamburg, 2, 296–98
Han, 116
Hangzhou, 137, 142
Hapsburgs, 171, 172, 175, 211, 256, 258, 263, 265
Haram, 270, 272–75
Harvard, John, 288
Harvard College, 198, 201, 288
Heart-Melting Exhortation, Together with a Cordial Consolation (Mather), 199
Hebrew, 297, 298
Heidelberg, 172
Helst, Bartholomeus van der, 213
Hermes Trismegistus, 17
Heyn, Piet, 20
Hideyoshi, 148, 154
Hieronymite order, 14, 15–16
High Court of Holland, 84–86
Hill of Arafat, 274
Hinduism, 131, 163, 254
Muslims and, 276–84
Hirado, 154
Hispaniola, 196, 202
Historical and Critical Dictionary (Bayle), 227
History of the Two Tartar Conquerors of China (d’Orléans), 142
Hodges, Cornelius, 42–43
Hodmadods, 61–62
see also Hottentots
Hohokam people, 25–28
Holland, 173, 175, 202, 203, 207–17, 224–27, 245–46
William of Orange and, 171, 172, 180–93
see also Dutch entries
“Holy Experiment,” 204–6
Holy Roman Empire, 97–98, 249–50, 256
homosexuality, 151
Honor of the Duchy of Carniola, The (Valvasor), 231–36
Hooke, Robert, 243, 244
Hope of Israel, The (Israel), 54–55
Hopes of Portugal, The (Vieira), 55
Hottentots, 61–62, 70–71
Hounslow Heath, 187
House of Commons, 186
House of God, 270
House of Lords, 195
House of Virtue, 208
Huai River, 116–17
Huancavelica mines, 24
Huguenots, 27, 72–73, 175–76, 188, 205, 214
Huhhot, 134–35
Hunan Province, 106–7, 108
Hungary, 250, 255, 256, 263, 265
Hungerford, 182–83
HungTaiji, 123
Hyderabad, 2, 279–83
Ibiapaba Mountains, 55
I Ching, 107, 114
Ihara Saikaku, see Saikaku
ihram, 270, 274
Imperial Ancestral Temple, 125
Imperial Board of Astronomy, 128, 130, 137
Imperial Institute of History, 250
Imperial Library, 250
Index of Prohibited Books, 178
India, 79, 87, 120, 254
Muslims and, 276–87
Indian Ocean, 272, 275, 285–86
Indonesia, 63–64, 68, 74–86
Indra, 279
Ingalaga, Sultan, 83–84
innate ideas, 248–49
Inner Light, 202–3, 227
Inner Mongolia, 134–35
Innocent XI, Pope, 173
Inquisition, 56
Iran, 254, 262, 264, 271, 278–81, 289
Ireland, 193, 202, 203
Irish Catholics, 187, 190, 191
Isaac, 273, 274
Ishmael, 270, 273, 274
Islam, 35, 40, 89, 131, 253–301
Christianity and, 254, 265–68
Dutch and, 81–84
Englishmen and, 285–86
Hindus and, 254, 276–84
Jews and, 295–96
Mecca, 269–75
Ottomans and, see Ottoman Empire
spread of, 2, 3–4, 40, 44
Israel, Land of, 295–96
Israel, Rabbi Menasseh ben, 54–55
Istanbul, 96, 149, 188, 258–64
Italy, 171, 299–301
Ivan, Tsar, 96–97, 99
Jahan, Shah, 278
Jamaica, 48–49, 194, 196–98, 202, 240
Jamaica Assembly, 197, 198
Jambi, 82–84
James I, King, 182
James II, King, 172, 179–205, 241, 245, 247, 302–3
Jan III Sobieski, King, 10, 256
janissaries, 263, 264, 267
Japan, 93–94, 114, 145–65
Catholics in, 89, 93, 154–56
Chinese in, 151, 155–57
city life, 145–54
foreign trade, 154–57
poetry in, 158–65
Japanese Family Storehouse, The (Saikaku), 158–59, 161
Japanese outside of Japan, 84, 86, 89, 154
Java, 78–79
Jerome, Saint, 15
Jerusalem, 295–96
Jesuit order, 10, 16, 26, 29, 53–57, 89, 154, 186, 232
in China, 90, 93–94, 128–44
in Japan, 154–56
Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 301
Jews, 54–55, 207, 215, 259, 261, 269, 274, 293–301
Jianzhibuluo, 287
Jidda, 272, 275
Jin Fu, 117
Jinji, 283
jizya poll tax, 279
João IV, King, 54–55, 56
John of Julfa, 289–91
Jones, Inigo, 182
Jordan, 271
jôruri puppet theater, 151–52
Joughayetsi, Hovhannes, 289–91
Journal des Sçavans, 139, 245
Jurchen people, 113
Juula, 40
Ka’aba, 270, 272–75
kabuki theater, 151
Kalikata, 286
Kanazawa, 145–48
Kancheepuram, 282, 287
Kangxi emperor, 3, 5, 100, 101, 111, 113–27, 287
Jesuits and, 128–44
Kant, Immanuel, 227
Karankawa people, 47
karst topography, 232, 235
Ketous (kowtow), 116, 117, 121–22
kettubbah, 299–301
Khalkhas, 101, 113, 135
Khoikhoi, 70–71
Khosot Mongols, 290–91
Kino (Chino), Father Eusebio, 2–3, 26–29
kiswa, 272
Klaas, 70–71, 73
Knight of the Garter, 195
Kongo, 32–35, 59
Kong Qiu, 105–6
Koopman, 71
Köprülü dynasty, 262–64
Kôrakuen gardens, 150–51
Korea, 114, 163
Kosovo, 262
Kremlin, 96–97
Kyoto, Japan, 148, 150
Kyushu, 154–57
Laguna, marquis and marchioness of, 13–19
Lake Onega, 101–4
Lamaist Buddhism, 290–91
Land of Israel, 295–96
language, 220
La Plata, duke of, 25
L’Archevêque (Archibeque), Jean, 45–48
La Salle, sieur de, 46
Last Days, 102–3
Latin Christians, 259
learning a trade, 248
Leib, Glikl bas Judah, 2, 296–99
Leib, Judah, 296
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 3, 133, 208, 221, 245, 249–52
Leipzig, 231
Lemba, West Africa, 32–35
Leopold I, Emperor, 250
Lepanto, 265
Letter on the Comet (Bayle), 225
Letter to the Committee of the Free Society of Traders, 204
Levy, Hirsch, 298–99
Lhasa, 290–91
Liberia, 53
Life of an Amorous Man, The (Saikaku), 160
Lincoln’s Inn Fields, 191
lingam, 281
Lipova, 256
Liu Wende, 137
“Living Buddha,” 134–35, 136
Ljubljana, 232
Lluidas Vale, 48–49
loa, 16–17
Locke, John, 5, 6, 133, 182, 221, .227, 234, 245–49
London, 185, 188–89, 191–92, 194, 200–1, 203, 238, 249, 260, 266
London City Council, 191
Londonderry, 193
Lopburi, 89, 90, 92
Lost Tribes of Israel, 204
Louis XIV, King, 10, 140, 185
Dutch and, 180, 209, 212–17
King of Siam and, 89–91, 173
persecution of Protestants, 72, 175–76, 214, 226
at Versailles, 143, 169–79
Louvre Palace, 170, 228, 230
Love Is the Greater Labyrinth (Sor Juana), 19
Luanda, 33, 34, 35, 59
Luo Wenzao, Bishop Gregorio, 137
Lutherans, 250, 297
Macao, 138, 142, 154, 156
mace, 79, 80
Madagascar, 70
Madras, 286–87
Maeda family, 146
Magalhaens, Gabriel de, 142–44
Magdelena de Kino, 26
Maghreb, 272
mahmal, 271, 272
Maintenon, marquise de, 169, 174–78
Maldive Islands, 37
Maluku (Moluccas), 80–81
Manchu people, 100, 106, 111, 113–27, 136, 141, 142
Mandate of Heaven, 121
Mandela, Nelson, 73
Manila, 1, 29–31, 154
Mao Zedong, 108
Marathas, 278–83
Marie Thérèse, Queen, 173, 174
Marlborough, duke of, 193
Maroons, 49
marriage contract, 299–301
Marriage Hater Matched, The, 303
Martini, Martino, 26
Mary, Princess, 182
Mary, Queen, 188, 192–93, 201
Maryland, 203
Mary of Modena, Queen, 188, 191
Masham, Lady, 248–49
Masham, Sir Francis, 249
Massachusetts, 198–201
Matagorda Bay, 46
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (Newton), 242–45
Mather, Increase, 198–201
Mather, Richard, 188
Maurice, Prince, 212
Matsuo Toshichirô, see Bashô
Mazarin, Cardinal, 170, 174–75
Mecca, 254, 265, 269–75, 285, 286
Medina, 271, 272
Mediterranean Sea, 258, 265–68, 275
Mehmet the Conqueror Mosque, 258
Melrich, Nathan, 296
Memories for a Natural History of the Animals (Perrault), 230, 231
mercantilism, 185
mercury mines, 24
Metamorphoses (Ovid), 233
metaphysics, 250–51
Mevlevi dervishes, 261
Mexico, 13–19, 25–29, 46, 47, 48
Mezzo Morto, 267–68
Middle Way, 163
Mina, 274
Ming Dynasty, 106–7, 111, 113, 116, 117, 121, 129, 137, 141, 151, 155
Mingju, 117, 124, 126
Miskito Indians, 64
Mississippi River, 46
Mistra, Greece, 266–67
mita system, 24–25
Mitsukuni, Tokugawa, 150–51
Molinos (Spanish Jews), 178
Monck, Christopher, 194–98
Monck, George, 194–95
money, 158–62
Mongols, 99–101, 123–24, 134, 261, 290–91
Monmouth, James, duke of, 186–87, 188, 195
Monoyoshi, 145
Montespan, marquise de, 174
Moors, 131, 258
Morale de Confucius Philosophe de la Chine, La (de la Brune), 139–40
Morgan, Sir Henry, 48–49, 197–98
Morocco, 40, 43, 44, 195, 272
Morosini, Francesco, 266–67
Moscow, 95–99, 213
Moulsford, 286–87
Mount Obasute, 164–65
Mughal Empire, 114, 254, 278–86, 288
Muhammad, Prophet, 259, 269–75, 277
multiplication of tongues, 53–55
Muslims, see Islam
Mustafa, Kara, 263
Myanmar, 286
Nagasaki, 154–57
Nahuatl, 13
Nan Huairen, 128–31
see also Verbiest, Father Ferdinand
Nara, 163
Narai, King, 87–92
Nathan, Moses ben, 296
Navarrete, Father Domingo Fernández, 132
Neptune, 17
Netherlands, the, see Holland
Newcastle, duke of, 195
New England, 198–201, 287–88
New History of China (Magalhaens), 142–44
New Julfa, 289
New Mexico, 48
Newton, Isaac, 2, 220, 221, 242–45
Newton Abbot, 181
Nigeria, 36
Niger River, 43, 44, 51, 272
Nikon, Patriarch, 102, 213
Nizam, Shaikh, 282, 283
Ni Zan, 112
Nô dance dramas, 150, 151
North and East Tartary (Witsen), 214
Nouvelles de la République des Lettres, 223–27
Nuestra Señora de las Dolores, 26, 28
nutmeg, 79, 80
“official students,” 114–15
Old Believers, 98
martyrdom of, 101–4
Oldenbarnevelt, Johan van, 212
One Stroke, 112
“On Motion,” 244
Order of Five Types of Columns according to the Method of the Ancients (Perrault), 230
Order of the Holy Spirit, 179
Oroonoko: Or, the Royal Slave (Behn), 52, 239–41, 304
Osaka, 150
Osman Agha, 255–58, 263
Ottoman Empire, 44, 95, 96, 98, 114, 188, 254–68
Hajj and, 265, 270–71
Our Lady of the Sorrows, 26, 28
Ovid, 239
paganism, 224, 226, 234
Palace of the Doges, 11
Palatinate, the, 172
Palembang, 82–84
Paleostrovskii Monastery, 101–4
Palmares, 58, 59
Pam Nayak, 284
Panama, 49
papacy, 172–75
Paraguay, 57
Parallel of the Ancients and the Moderns (Perrault), 228–29
Paris, 169–79, 260
Paris Observatory, 230
Paris Opéra, 179
Parliament, English, 183–88, 190, 192, 201
Parthenon, 266, 267
Passover, 295
Paul, Saint, 132
Pawnee Indians, 47–48
Peace of Carlowitz, 258
Peloponnese, the, 266–67
Pembroke, earls of, 182
Penn, Admiral William, 202, 203, 205
Penn, William, 5, 200, 201–6, 234
Pennsylvania, 201–6
Penso de la Vega, Joseph, 215–16
pepper, 82–83
Pepys, Samuel, 64
perception, 246
Pereira, Father Thomas, 130–31, 133, 136
Perrault, Charles, 228–29, 231
Perrault, Claude, 133, 229–31
Persia, 254, 262, 264, 271, 278–81, 289
Persian Gulf, 271
Peru, 19–25
forced labor of Indians, 24–25
Peter the Great, Tsar, 64, 95–104, 214
Petre, Father, 200
Phaulkon, Constantine, 87–92
Phetracha, 91–92
Philippines, 1, 29–31
Philippsburg, 172, 173
Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Newton), 242–45
Philosophical Commentary on the Words of Jesus Christ . . . (Bayle), 226
“Philosophical Confession,” 252
Philosophical Transactions, 231, 235, 243, 244
Phips, Captain William, 196
Pima people, 2–3, 25–29
Pinacate Mountain, 29
Piraeus, Greece, 266
pirates, 48–49, 63, 64, 196–97, 255–57, 258
Pitts, Joseph, 271, 274
plague, 278, 282, 283, 284, 288
planetary orbits, 244
Platonic tradition, 249
Poetical History of the War Newly Declared between the Ancients and the Moderns (Callières), 228
poetry, 13–14, 17–18, 105, 109–11, 138–39, 162–65, 302
Poland, 256, 265
“Popish Plot,” 186
Porcio, Juan, 50, 51
Port Royal, 49, 196
Portugal, 215
Portuguese Empire, 32–35, 44, 51, 53–59, 80–81, 131, 264
relations with Japan, 154, 156
Portuguese Synagogue, 207, 215
Potala, 291
Potosí mines, 11, 20–25, 48, 57
praise names, 34–35
Pra Pi, 91–92
“presented scholar” (jin shi), 115–16
Price, Major Francis, 48–49, 197
prince of Wales, 180, 181, 189, 191, 198, 302–3
Prinicipia (Newton), 2, 220
Prisoner of the Unbelievers (Osman Agha), 255–58
private property, 247
Privy Council, 189, 191
prostitution, 151, 155, 217
Protestants, 180–217
persecution of, 27, 72–73, 175–76, 177, 187, 203, 205, 214–26
see also specific sects
“Protestant wind,” 181
public baths, 260
Pueblo Indians, 47
Purcell, Henry, 241, 302–4
Puritans, 184, 185, 198–201
Pythagoreans, 131
Qianqing Palace, 118–20
Qing Dynasty, 99–101, 106–44, 155, 156, 287, 291
Quakers, 187, 201–6, 227, 245
Quietism, 177–78
Quilombos, 58–59
Quran, 254, 258, 259, 261, 269–74, 277
Racine, Jean Baptiste, 177
Rajaram, 283
Rajput, 279
Ramadan, 270
Randolph, Edward, 199–200
Rasp House, 208
“rational nature,” 141
Record of Remarks on Painting (Hua Yu Lu) (Shitao), 112
Record of Western Regions (Xuanzang), 287
reincarnation, 290
“Rejoice in the Lord Alway,” 303
reliable information, 225–27
religious orthodoxies, 246
Renaissance, 169
Republic of Letters, 223–36
Restoration, 182, 185, 192, 245
revolutionary thought, 247
Rhineland, 172
Ricci, Father Matteo, 129, 131–32, 136, 137, 139, 140
Rio Grande, 46, 47
“Rites Controversy,” 132
Robben Island, 71, 73
Rojas y Spinola, Cristóbal de, 250
Roman Catholicism, 1, 11, 15–16, 19, 29, 30, 50, 51, 89, 90, 95, 207–8, 224–26, 241, 302–3
anti-Catholicism, 172, 184–93, 196, 203, 205
de Guyon, 177–78
James II and, see James II, King
Louis XIV and, 172–78
see also Catholic orders
Roman Curia, 132
Romania, 255–56, 257
rônin, 148, 153–54
Rotterdam, 224–27, 245–46
Round Hill Altar, 121, 126
royal absolution, 247
Royal African Company, 49, 53, 197
Royal Company of Senegal, 41, 42
Royal Mint, 245
Royal Society of London, 63, 231, 233, 235, 243, 244, 245
Rumpf/Rumphius, Georg Everard, 74–78, 133
Russia, 95–104, 123, 213–14, 265
Chinese negotiations with, 126, 130, 133, 135
Russian Orthodox Church, 98, 102–3
Ryukyu Islands, 114
Safavid Empire, 254
Sahara desert, 40–44, 267, 272
Saifuddin, Sultan, 81
Saikaku (Ihara Saikaku), 4–5, 7, 158–62, 238
St. Cyr, Royal House of, 176–77
St. James Palace, 192
Salisbury, 182, 190
Sambhaji, 280, 283, 285
samurai, 147–54, 160
San Xavier del Bac, 28
Sarah, 273
Sava River valley, 231–36, 257
Schall von Bell, Father Johann Adam, 129, 136, 142
scientific observation, 229–31
Scotland, 186, 188, 190, 193
Second Temple, 295
Selenginsk, 99–101, 133, 135
Senegambia, 39–44, 51, 272
Serbs, 261–62, 265
sexuality, 160, 237–39, 281
Shakespeare, William, 182
Shanghai, 136
Shiites, 264, 271
Shi Lang, 118–20, 156, 287
Shimabara, 154
Shintoism, 149
Shitao, 109–12
Shiva, 277, 281
Shivaji, 279–80
shoguns, 146–55
Short and Easy Method of Prayer (de Guyon), 178
shunga, 151
Shunzhi, 129
Siam, 87–92, 173
Siberia, 99–101
Sichuan Province, 142
Sigûenza y Góngora, Carlos de, 16, 27
Sikhs, 279
silver empire, 1, 13–31, 46, 57
Sima Guang, 108
Sinai desert, 272
slavery, 4, 6, 197
Africa and, 33–43
asiento, 49–51
Behn on, 52, 239–41
escaped slaves, 49, 58–59
Ottomans and, 259, 260, 262, 265, 267, 271
slave revolts, 69–70
slave trade, 51–53
in Southeast Asia, 79–80
Slaves’ Quay, 265
Sloane, Dr. Hans, 48, 133, 197, 198
Slovenia, 231–36
smallpox, 71
Sobieski, King Jan III, 10
Society of Foreign Missions, 92
Society of Friends, 201–6
Some Thoughts concerning Education (Locke), 247–48
Song Dynasty, 105, 108, 137, 140, 141
Songgotu, 124, 126–27, 133–35
Sonora Desert, 2–3, 25–29
Sons of Heaven, 121, 122, 125
Sophia, Princess, 97–99, 103
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, 5, 14–19, 27, 238
South Africa, 69–73, 175
Southerne, Thomas, 241, 304
Spain, 171, 211, 212, 215, 216
Spanish Empire, 1, 13–30, 47–51, 81, 171, 194, 265
Spanish Main, 196
Spanish Netherlands, 171, 211
Spice Islands, 74–78
spiritual substances, 250–51
state of nature, 247
States General, 211
States of Holland, 211
Station of Abraham, 272–75
stock exchange, 210, 215–16
Stonehenge, 182
Strait of Dover, 181
Strasbourg, 171
Streltsy, 96, 97, 99, 103
Stuarts, 172, 184
Suakin, 272
Suez, 272
Sufism, 5, 277–78
Süleyman IV, Sultan, 264
Süleyman Mosque, 258
Süleyman the Magnificent, Sultan, 262
Sumatra, 82–84
sunken treasure, 196
Sun King, see Louis XIV, King
superdaimyo, 146, 154
supernatural powers, 34–35, 233–34
Surinam, 293–40
Sweden, 217
Swift, Jonathan, 64
Tachard, Father Guy, 91
Taiwan, 30, 100, 114, 118, 119, 156, 287
Tale of Genji, 160
Tales of Mother Goose (Perrault), 231
Tales of Samurai Duty (Saikaku), 160
Tatars, 95, 97–99, 141, 142
“tax farmers,” 263
Telugu, 280–81
Temesvár (Timi
oara), 255–56, 257
Temple of Solomon, 295
Tenochtitlán, 17
Ternate Island, 80–81
Test Acts, 187, 188
Texas, 45–47
textile industry, 288–89
Theater of Human Death (Valvasor), 233
“Third Declaration,” 191
Three Feudatories, 119, 128, 130
Tiananmen gate, 142
Tibetan Buddhism, 134, 290–91
Tidore Island, 80–81
Timbuktu, 41, 43, 44
Timmerman, Frans, 98
Tokugawa leyasu, 146–48
Tokugawa shoguns, 146–55, 160
Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, 152–53
Tong family, 128, 136
Tong Guowei, 128, 130, 133–34
Topkapi Palace, 258, 260–61
Topography of the Archduchy of Carinthia (Valvasor), 231, 233
Tor Bay, 181
Tories, 186–88
To the Fair Clarinda . . . (Behn), 237–38
Tower of London, 188–89
travel and communication, 3–4
Treaty of Nerchinsk, 101
Trianon Palace, 169, 178–79
Tribute of Yu, 116
Tunis, 272
Tupi-Guarani, 54, 55
Turkey, 232, 258–64
see also Ottoman Empire
Twelfth Night (Shakespeare), 182
Two Treatises on Government (Locke), 247
tyrants, 247
United Provinces of the Netherlands, 209–17
University of Leiden, 213
Urga, 100–1
Üsküdar, 261
Valvasor, Janez Vajkard, 231–36
Van Dyck, Anthony, 182
Van Nijenroode, Cornelia, 84–86
Various Thoughts on the Comet (Bayle), 225
Varwell, Peter, 181
Vatican Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, 33
Vauban, 172
Venice, 2, 9–11, 89, 90, 231, 256, 257, 263, 265–67, 289
Verbiest, Father Ferdinand, 10, 128–31, 133, 136, 142
Versailles, 143, 169–79, 228
Vieira, Father Antonio, 5, 6, 19, 53–57
Vienna, 208, 250, 256, 258, 263, 265
Vietnam, 64, 114
Virgin of Guadalupe, 14
Vishnu, 277
Vitruvius, 230
Voltaire, 139, 223, 224, 227
Voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christopher, and Jamaica, A (Sloane), 197
Wang Fuzhi, 5, 105–8, 114
Wan Qiyuan, 137
Way of the Former Kings, 107
Ways (dao), 107, 112
Western Wall, 295, 296
West Indies, 48–49, 51, 57, 194, 196–98
Whigs, 186–88, 192
Whitehall, 200–1
Whydah, 36–39, 53
William II of Orange, 182, 212, 213
William III of Orange, King, 171–72, 180–93, 195, 201, 205, 209–17, 245
William and Mary, 182, 192–93, 201
William the Silent, prince of Orange, 211
Wilton House, 182
Wilton Royal Carpet Factory, 182
Windward Coast, 53
wine industry, 72, 73
witchcraft, 24, 233–36
Witsen, Cornelis, 213
Witsen, Nicolaas Corneliszoon, 10, 99, 213–15
wooden ships, world of, 9–11
Woolf, Virginia, 241
Wu Li, 137–39, 144
Xiamen, 286–87
Xiaozhuang, Grand Dowager Empress, 120–27, 131, 133
Xining, 290
Xuanzang, 287
Yale, Elihu, 72, 287–88
Yale, Thomas, 287
Yale University, 288
Yamamoto Tosa-no-jô, 152
Yangtze Valley, 113
Yellow River, 116–17, 126
Yemen, 264–65, 272, 275
Yermak, 100
Yi jing, 107, 114
Yom Kippur, 295, 296
York, James, duke of, 186, 202
Yoshiwara quarter, 151
Yu, 116
Yu Chenglong, 117
Zamzam, well of, 273–74
Zen Buddhism, 163
Zhala cemetery, 129
Zha Sihan, 116
Zhou Dynasty, 106, 107, 123
Zhuangzi, 163
Zumbi, 587