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 Index xix Ba'den, 456, 458, 482, 518 Baeda. See Venerable Bede Bag dad', 193 ; taken by the English, 620, 638 " Balance of power," 322, 364, 380 Baldwin, king of Jerusalem, 239 f. Balkan Peninsula, 177 Balkans, wars in the, 554, 606 ff., 636 Bal'tic Sea, 623 Bamberg, 456 Bank of France, 457 Bannockburn, 280 Baptists, 361 " Barbarians," origin of term, 67, 69. See Germans Basel (ba'zel), 456 Bastille, 433, 457, 500 Bavaria, 188, 455 f-, 458, 518; king of, 460, 482, 649 Bayonne, 466 Bechuanaland protectorate, 549 Becket, Thomas, 232 Beirut, 647 Belgium, 207, 306, 458 ; an independ- ent kingdom, 484; and Africa, 581 ; Germans violate neutrality of, 613, 638 ; evacuated by the Germans, 649 Belshazzar, 38 Benedictine order, 198 f. Berlin, Congress of, 560, 606 Berlin decree, 463 Bethmann-Hollweg, 616 Bernstorff, Count von, 629 Bible, origin of name, 58; first printed, 277 ; translated by Wycliffe, 284 ; Luther's translation of, 314; Eng- lish translation of, 323 ; the Vul- gate, 328 ; King James version of, 352 Bill of Rights, 362 Biology, 593 Birmingham, 532 Bishop of Rome, 197, 219. See Pope Bishoprics, 455 f. Bishops, 179; in feudal system, 217; powers and duties of, 218 Bismarck, 511 ff., 516 n., 517, 601 " Black Death," 283 " Black Year of Forty-Seven " in Ire- land, 538 Blockades, 459, 462 ff., 623 f., 630 Bliicher, General, 474 Boers, 547, 548 f. Bohemia, in Thirty Years' War, 343 f.; acquired by Austria, 386 f. ; revolt of, 502 f. ; province of Austria, 515 Bohemians, 206, 374 Boleyn (bool'in), Anne, 323 f. Bolivia, 485 Bologna (bo lon'ya), University of, 271 Bolsheviki, 374, 646, 659 f., 665 Bombay, 392 Bonaparte, Jerome, 462, 472 Bonaparte, Joseph, 461, 466 Bonaparte, Louis, 461 Bonaparte, Napoleon, 450 if. " Book of the Dead," 22 Books, earliest printed, 277 Bordeaux, 617 Borodino, 469 Bosnia and Herzegovina, 606 f. ; an- nexation of, to Austria, 610, 6n, 636 Boston Tea Party, 398 Botany Bay, 545 Botha, General, 548 Bothwell, 340 Boulogne, 459 Bourbons, 371; restored to throne, 473- 479 f- 5 House of, 480 n. ; flag of, 528 n. Boxer rebellion, 578 Brandenburg, electorate of, 378 Brazil, 484, 584 n., 588, 633 Bremen, 255, 455, 623 Breslau (bres'lou), 380 Brest-Litovsk, Treaty of, 636 Britain, invaded by Caesar, 147 ; con- quered by Angles and Saxons, 202 ; conversion of, 202 British Empire, 392 ; extension of, 400 f., 539 ff. Britons, early, 279 Brittany, 228, 233 Bronze, used in Egypt, 18 ; in Crete, 5 Bruce, Robert, 280 Bruges, 255, 257 Brunswick, 257 ; duke of, 441, 462 Brussels, 484, 617 Bucharest (bo ka rest'), Treaty of, 609 Buenos Aires (bwa'nos I'res), 485 Bukowina, 636 Bulgaria, 606, 608 ; in the World War, 625, 636, 646 Burgoyne, General, 400 Burgundy, dukes of, 188, 228, 287, 306