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 INDEX Abolitionist movement, 364 Abraham the Patriarch, 113 Abu Bekr, 238, 240, 241, 409 Abyssina, 378 Actium, battle of, 186 Adam and Eve, 113 Adams, William, 380 Aden, 384 Adowa, battle of, 378 Adrianople, 219 Adrianople, Treaty of, 336 Adriatic Sea, 170, 218 ^gatian Isles, 173 ^gean peoples, 90, 92, 98, 106, 113, 166 yEoIIc Greeks, 106, 124 Aeroplanes, 4, 344, 392. (C/. Flying ma- chines) ^schylus, 133 Afghanistan, 155 Africa, 70, 90, 118, 119, 174, 242, 247, 287 Africa, Central, 377 Africa, North, 63, 92, 172, 183, 220, 278, 374, 376, 377, 410 Africa, South, 70, 318, 378, 384 Africa, West, 373 " Age of Confusion," the, 160, 165 Agriculturalists, primitive,;64, 66 Agriculture, 194 Agriculture, slaves in, 194 Ahab, 116 Air-breathing vertebrata, 22, 23 Air-raids, 392 Aix-la-Chapelle, 253 Akbar, 276, 315, 412 Akkadian and Akkadians, 88, 118, 407 Alabama, 365 Alabama, the, 368 Alani, 217, 408 Alaric, 219, 220, 409 Albania, 171 Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (Prince Consort), 413 Alchemists, 246, 279 Aldebaran, 245 Alemanni, 191, 409 Alexander I, Tzar, 330 Alexander II of Russia, 413 Alexander III, Pope, 260, 411 Alexander the Great, 136, 140 et seq., 155, 177, 229, 283, 408 Alexandretta, 141 Alexandria, 141, 144, 200, 212, 229 Alexandria, library at, 145 Alexandria, museum of, 144-5, 172 Alexius Comnenus, 256 Alfred the Great, 252 Algs, 12 Algebra, 245, 269 Algiers, 177 Algol, 245 Allah, 241 Alhgators, 26 Alphabets, 77, 122 Alps, the, 36, 188 Alsace, 191, 293, 371 Aluminium, 342 Amenophis III, 94, 407 Amenophis IV, 94 America, 252, 286-7, 293, 297, 312, 318, 319, 400-402, 412 America, North, 10, 313, 319, 362 American Civil War, 366, 413 American civilizations, primitive, 71 et seq. American warships in Japanese waters, 38 1 Ammonites, 29, 35 Amorites, 88 Amos, the prophet, 120 Amphibia, 23 Amphitheatres, 199 Amur, 317 Anagni, 270, 271 Anatomy, 23, 145, 337 Anaxagoras, 133 Anaximander of Miletus, 126 Andes, 36 Angles, 220 Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 384 Animals. (See Mammals) Annam, 382 Anti-aircraft guns, 392 Antigonus, 143 Antioch, 233, 258, 259, 409 Antiochus III, 174 Anti-Slavery Society, 364 Antoninus Pius, 186, 408 4IS