Index
-AAbbas, al-, 211
Abbassid dynasty, 183, 184, 211
Abby of Fulda, 195
Abraham, 166
Abu Bekr, 161, 162, 164, 166, 169
Acre, 351, 393
Adam, 318
Aelia Capitolina, 53
Africa, 65, 83, 99, 100, 166, 169, 182,
183, 201, 262-264, 305, 381, 484
Agincourt, battle of, 436, 467
Agrippina, 27
Ainu, 139
Aix-la-Chapelle, 208
Alaska, 292
Albania, 483
Albigensians, 335
Alexander the Great, 409
Alexandria, 201, 287
Alfonsi, Petrus, 188
Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, 228231, 314
Ali, 161, 169
Alighieri, Dante, see Dante Alighieri
Allah, 161-164, 167-169, 185, 186, 197
Allah-Taala, 161
Alps, 97, 380, 381
Alrui, David, 344
Amazon, 477
Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, 83
America, see United States
Americans, 300, 355
Andalus, al-, 114, 182-186 see also
Cordoba; Sefarad
Andalusians, 209
Andes, 477
Angles, 99, 124, 145, 299, 314
Anglo-Saxons, 100, 179, 180, 230, 317
Anna, 277
Antarctica, 257
Antioch, 13, 14
Antonius Pius, 28
Ao-tea-roa, see New Zealand
Apocrypha, 42, 88
Apostles’ Creed, 57, 58
Aquila, 16
Aquinas, Saint Thomas, 370, 395-397,
427
Aquino, 395
Aquitaine, 335-338
Arab Empire, 323, 341
Arabi, Ibn al-, 208
Arabia, 160, 164, 166, 183, 197, 201
Arabs, 114, 160, 164, 166, 183, 184,
222, 284, 287, 381, 487
Aragon, 306
Arch of Constantine, 67
Argentina, 334, 478
Aristotle, 396
Armenia, 411
Arnarson, Ingolf, 255
Arthur, King of England, 123-126, 229,
314, 337
Arthur (grandson of Eleanor of
Aquitaine), 339
Asia, 4, 14-16, 65, 68, 72, 80, 96, 166,
169, 257, 264, 410, 413, 443, 477, 482484
Asoka, King of India, 156
Assisi, 374
Assyrians, 341
Atacama Desert, 477
Athens, 15
Atlantic Sea, 291
Attila the Hun, 96-98, 100, 275
Augustine of Canterbury, 145, 229
Augustine of Hippo, Saint,4, 83,-85, 87,
314
Augustus Caesar, 23
Augustus, Philip, King of France, 351
Australia, 257, 258
Aurelius, Marcus, 29, 65
Averroës, 396,
Aztecs, 3370, 429-432
Atzlan, 429
-BBabylonia, 181
Babylonians, 166, 341
Bacon, Roger, 370, 399-401
Baffin Island, 301
Baghdad, 211
Balkin Mountains, 483
Balkin Peninsula, 483
Balkins, 483
Baltic Sea, 276
Bangladesh, 169
Bannockburn, 417
Bar-Kokhba, 4, 53-56, 323
Barbarossa, Frederick, 274, 351, 391,
395
Barcelona, 209
Barnabas, 12-15
Battuta, ibn, 415
Bayeux Tapestry, 316
Beatrice, 426-428
Beautiful Gate, 9
Becket, Thomas á, archbishop of
Canterbury, 337, 338, 459
Bede, 182
Bedouin, 42, 166
Beijing, 445, 446 see also Peking
Belisarius, 130
Belize, 82
Ben Yair, Eleazar, 40, 41
Benedict of Nursia, Saint, 102
Beowulf, 179-181
Berbers, 183, 184
Berengaria, 353
Bering Strait, 80
Berkshire, 229
Bernard of Clairvaux, 325, 428
Berserks, 215
Bethar, 54
Bethlehem, 23, 87
Bi Sheng, 283
Bible (Word of God), 3, 8, 9, 11, 16, 42,
44, 73, 84-88, 101, 121, 125, 126,
130, 137, 140, 168, 180, 181, 186,
197, 202, 226, 227, 230, 382, 400,
428, 433, 450, 451, 462, 465, 486488
Bill of Rights, 384
Black Death, 370, 435, 442-444
Black Sea, 68, 226, 275, 443, 483
Blandina, 29
Blondel, 353
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 445
Bohemia, 227, 271-274, 462, 487
Bohemians, 273, 462
Boleslav, 272
Bolivia, 478
Bonaparte, Napoleon, 208
Boniface, 115, 194-196, 201
Boris, King of Bulgaria, 227
Bors, Sir, 126
Bothnagowan, 304
Bretigny, treaty of, 435
Britain, 123, 136
Bruce, Robert, King of Scotland, 370,
416, 417, 434
Brude, 137
Bruis, Peter, 333
Buddha, 141, 156, 168, 177
Buddhism, 115, 140, 141, 356
Buddhists, 157, 411
Bulgaria, 227, 483
Bulgarians, 483
Bulgars, 226, 275
Burgos, 307
Burgundians, 469
Burgundy, 274
Burma, 115, 410, 411
Byzantine Empire, 97, 101, 114, 128,
130, 131, 144, 208, 211, 216, 226,
276, 277, 287, 323, 324, 336, 370,
483, 484
Byzantium, 68, 128, 482 see also
Constantinople; Istanbul
-CCaedmon, 182
Caesar Augustus, see Augustus Caesar
Caesarea, 16
Cadiz, 182
Caffa, 443
Calais, 434
Calicut, 72
Calvin, John, 85
Cambodia, 115, 410
Camelot, 123
Canada, 292, 301, 384
Canossa, 321
Canterbury, 359
Canterbury Tales, The, 457, 459, 487
Cape of Good Hope, 415
Carolingian, 207
Carrick, 417
Carthage, 83, 201
Caspian Sea, 276
Castile, 306
Catacombs, 26
Catherine, 436
Catherine of Siena, Saint, 445, 466
Catherine, Saint, 467
Caxton, William, 487
Celts, 95, 123, 124, 228, 229, 314, 317
Central America, 4, 80, 82, 370
Ch’ang (Xi’an), 157, 282
Chalons-sur-Marne, battle of, 97
Charlemagne, 207-211, 274, 319, 320,
335, 337, 341, 392, 409
Charles VI, 435, 467
Charles VII, 467-470
Charles “Martel”, 201, 207
Charles University, 462
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 370, 457, 459, 460,
487
Cheng Ho, 415
Chile, 478
Chin Empire, 409
China, 114, 115, 139, 141, 155-158,
176-178, 181, 212, 250, 262, 263,
282-285, 370, 400, 409, 410, 413,
414, 445, 446, 448, 477
Chinese, 114, 140, 155, 176, 283, 284,
410, 411, 413, 414, 445, 446, 448, 486
Chinon, 478
Christ (Jesus), 3-5, 8, 10-16, 23, 25, 27,
31, 54, 58, 60, 66-69, 73, 83-88, 96,
115, 125, 126, 136, 137, 140, 141,
143, 167, 168, 177, 186, 194, 195,
198, 200, 226, 230, 249, 260, 271,
276, 286, 287, 323, 324, 333, 334,
340, 341, 344, 369, 374-378, 393,
411, 483, 462, 467, 482, 487, 488
Christianity, 27, 29, 30, 57, 68, 73, 8385, 100, 115, 130, 139, 145, 160,
167, 168, 197, 198, 201, 209, 216,
224, 229, 249, 271, 274, 277, 286,
300, 303, 306, 314, 341, 369, 393,
396, 411
Christians, 3, 4, 9-13, 15, 17, 25, 27-29,
44, 47, 54, 57, 58, 60, 65-69, 6, 98,
114, 120, 121, 126, 137, 143, 157,
164, 167, 168, 169, 182, 184, 186,
197-199, 251, 276, 287-289, 305307, 323, 325, 341-343, 350-352,
380, 396, 411, 482
Chu Yuan-chang, see Hung-wu
Cipango, see Japan
Clara dei Sciffi, Saint, 369, 374-378
Clement IV, 401
Cleopatra, 23, 178
Clovis, 100, 201
Cologne, 380
Colosseum, 4, 26, 27
Columba, Saint, 115, 136, 137, 194, 215,
303
Columbus, Christopher, 300, 302, 307,
400
Compiegne, 469
Confucius, 156, 177, 282, 283
Conrad III, 325
Constance, 463
Constantine I (Constantine the Great), 4,
67-69, 85, 98, 120, 128, 342, 482, 484
Constantine V, 199
Constantine XI, 484
Constantinople, 69, 128-130, 199, 211,
226, 276, 277, 323, 336, 370, 413,
482, 483, 484, 488 see also
Byzantium; Istanbul
Cook, Captain James, 260
Copts, 287
Cordoba, 182, 184, 185, 211 see also
Andalus, al-; Sefarad
Corinth, 16
Cortes, 432
Council of Nicaea, 69
Crecy, 434
Crusades, 249, 274, 323-325, 336, 338,
351, 370, 376, 380, 384, 396
Children’s, 380-382
First, 323, 324
Second, 323, 235, 336, 350, 428
Third, 350, 351, 380
Culhuan tribe, 429
Cupid, 60
Cuzco, 478, 479
Cyprian of Carthage, 29
Cyprus, 53, 129
Cyril, 115, 226, 227, 270
Czech Republic, 4226, 270, 462
Czechoslovakia, 270
-DDaibutsu, 141
Damascus, 13, 183, 185, 211, 325
Damasus (bishop), 87
Danegeld, 216
Danelaw, 230, 314
Danes, 180, 229, 230, 231
Dante Alighieri, 370, 426-428, 460
Danube, 97
Day of Pentecost, 9
Dead Sea, 40, 42, 43, 53, 55
Dead Sea Scrolls, 4, 42, 43, 55
Delhi, 71
Demetrius, 16
Denmark, 179, 181, 214, 216, 222
Diaz, Rodrigo, see El Cid
Diocletian, 65, 66, 68, 86, 128
Divine Comedy, The, 426-428
Dome of the Rock, 350, 352, 380
Dominic, Saint, 369, 374-378, 411
Dominicans, 377, 378, 395, 411
Domitian, 27
Domremy, 467
Donar, 194
Donati, Gemma, 427
Dorset, 292
Drahomira, 270, 271
Druids, 95
Dublin, 216
Dunbar, Battle of, 416
Duncan I, king of Scotland, 303, 304
Duns Scotus, John, 398
Dunsinane, 304
-EEastern Orthodox Church, 276, 277
Ecuador, 478
Edict of Milan, 68, 70, 482
Edward I, 342, 416
Edward II, 384, 417
Edward III, 417, 434, 435, 450
Edward the Black Prince, of Wales, 435
Edward the Confessor, 314, 315
Egypt, 45, 53, 169, 212, 262, 286, 287,
376
Egyptians, 224, 263, 286
El Cid, 250, 305-307
Eleanor of Aquitaine, 250, 335-339, 342,
350, 383
England, 65, 94, 95, 99, 100, 123-126,
136, 145, 179-181, 194, 215, 216,
228, 229-231, 250, 260, 314-316,
319, 337, 355, 370, 377, 383-385,
399, 416, 417, 434-436, 443, 449451, 462, 463, 469, 477, 487
English, 230, 231, 315-317, 337, 384,
416, 417, 435, 436, 466-470
English Channel, 50, 342, 434
Ephesus, 16
Eric the Red, 290-293, 300
Ericsson, Leif (Leif the Lucky), 249,
291, 300-302
Eulogius, 186
Euphrates river, 183
Europe, 3-5, 14-16, 65, 68, 87, 96, 98,
99-101, 113-115, 118-123, 130, 137,
155, 157, 158, 166, 169, 181-184,
186, 197, 198, 201, 202, 208, 214216, 224, 226, 228, 229, 231, 250,
262, 264, 274, 276, 283, 316, 334,
338, 341, 342, 350, 351, 357, 358,
370, 376, 380, 392, 393, 396, 400,
410, 414, 435, 442, 443, 460, 463,
470, 480, 482-488
Europeans, 114, 115, 158, 201, 209, 224,
260, 283, 293, 380, 414, 443, 448
Eskimos, see Inuit
Essenes, 31, 43, 44
Eve, 318
-FFaeroe Islands, 254
Falkirk, 416
Fatima, 169
Fatimy, Moaz Ladeen Allah El, 287, 288
Faustines, 28
Felicitas, 29
Felix, 16
Ferdinand, King of Spain, 307
Festus, 16
Flagellant Brothers, 442
Flavius, 33
Flora, 186
Florence, 426
Forbidden City, 370, 445-448, 478
France, 95, 100, 121, 182, 201, 207, 208,
210, 216, 250, 274, 314, 316, 319,
333, 335, 339, 342, 351, 370, 381,
384, 434-436, 443, 463, 467, 468,
477
Francis, Saint, of Assisi, 369, 374-378,
399, 411
Franciscans, 375, 377, 378, 399, 401,
411
Franks, 100, 201, 207-209
Frederick II, Stupor Mundi, 370, 391393
Freisland, 194, 195
French, 434, 435, 468-470
Frey, 224
Freydid, 302
Frigg, 224
Froissart, Jean, 436
Fuji, Mount, 139
Fujiwara family, 357
-GGabriel, 161, 162
Galahad, Sir, 126
Galileans, 32
Gamaliel, 10
Gardar, 254, 256
Gardarsholm, see Iceland
Gaul, 97, 100
Gelasius, 60
Genghis Khan, 409-411, 445, 482, 483
Gentiles, 10, 29, 341
Genoa, 381, 414, 443
George, Saint, 66, 181
Germans, 97, 98, 196, 274, 339, 393
Germany, 194, 195, 201, 207, 208, 210,
271, 273, 274, 276, 319, 321, 380,
391, 393, 443, 463,
Gibraltar, strait of, 182, 305
Gobi Desert, 409
God, 3, 4, 10, 12, 15-17, 23, 25, 28, 54,
66, 69, 73, 83-88, 95, 115, 120, 136,
137, 140, 160, 164, 167-169, 181,
186, 195, 197, 199, 200-202, 224,
251, 260, 276, 277, 282, 286, 288,
289, 304, 306, 318, 324, 333, 334,
341, 342, 371, 375-377, 381, 395397, 427, 428, 433, 442-444, 450,
451, 462
Golden Horn, 484
Gospel, 3, 4, 10, 14, 16, 95, 96, 115,
125, 136, 144, 145, 194, 201, 224,
226, 249, 260, 270, 300, 303, 377,
378, 411, 433
Goths, 100, 275
Granada, 307, 341
Grand Canal, 155
Great Schism, 463
Greece, 15, 24, 71, 72, 197, 199, 275,
483
Greeks, 15, 197-199, 224, 447
Greenland, 216, 249, 250, 290-293, 300,
301
Greenlanders, 292, 293, 300
Gregory I (Gregory the Great), 143-146,
229, 341
Gregory VII, 251, 318-322, 392, 427
Gregory IX, 392, 393
Gregory XI, 450
Grimm, Jacob, 275
Grimm, Wilhelm, 275
Groote, Gerhard, 453
Guatemala, 81, 82
Gudrid, 301
Guinevere, Queen of England, 126, 337
Gun Gong, see Forbidden City
Gupta dynasty, 71, 72
Gutenburg, Johannes, 486, 487
Guthrum, 230
-HHadrada, Harold, King of Norway 315
Hadrian, 28, 53, 55, 124
Hagar, 166
Han dynasty, 155
Hangchow, 155
Hannibal, 183
Harold of Wessex, 315
Hasdai, 187
Hastings, battle of, 250, 315, 434
Hawaii, 258
Hazm, Ibn, 186
Hebrews, 340
Hebrides, 254
Hegira, 163
Helluland, see Baffin Island
Henry II (Henry Plantagenet), 336-339,
383, 459
Henry III, 385
Henry IV, 251, 318-322, 492, 427
Henry V, 436, 467
Henry VII, 427
Henry VIII, 319
Herculaneum, 48
Herjolfsson, Bjarni, 300-302
Herod Agrippa, 16
Herod the Great, 24, 32, 39, 40
Hesse, 194
Hildebrand, see Gregory VII
Hindu (Hinduism), 73
Hippo, 87
Hitler, Adolf, 342
Hjorleif, 255
Hokkaido, 139
Holy Spirit, 3, 8-10, 86, 115, 195, 378
Honduras, 81
Honshu, 139
Hood, Robin (Robert), 250, 353-355,
383
Horiuji Temple, 141
Hroswitha, 185
Hsi Hsia Empire, 410
Hugh the Iron, 381
Huitzilopochtli, 429
Hundred Years’ War, 370, 434-436, 367
Hung-wu, 445, 446
Hungarians, 23
Hungary, 227
Huns, 96-99, 275
Huss, John, 369, 462-465, 470, 487
Hussites, 465, 469, 470
-IIberian Peninsula, 182, 183
Iberians, 182
Iceland, 216, 249, 254-257, 290-292,
300-302, 477
Icelanders, 254
Iconoclast Controversy, 197, 198
Ignatius, 27
Independence, 292
India, 4, 71-73, 80, 169, 212, 400, 411,
413, 477
Indians, 4, 72, 73
Indonesia, 169
Indonesians, 140
Inkas, 370, 477-481, 484
Innocent III, 375, 381, 383, 384, 391
Interamna, 60
Inti, 479
Intihuatana, 478, 479
Inuit, 293, 302
Investiture Controversy, 251, 318, 319
Iona, 136, 137
Iran, 169, 275
Iranians, 275
Ireland, 95, 96, 136, 137, 194, 216, 255,
417
Irene, 199, 208
Irish, 94-96, 136
Isabella, Queen of Spain, 307
Isabella, 383
Isabelle, 435
Ishmael, 166
Islam, 115, 160-162, 164, 166-169, 182,
201, 287, 323
Isle of Avalon, 126
Isle of Patmos, 27
Israel, 28, 32, 39, 41, 54-56, 169, 323
Israelites, 56, 197, 340, 380
Istanbul, 68, 484 see also Byzantium;
Constantinople
Italians, 273, 443, 487
Italy, 45, 100, 199, 208, 258, 273, 274,
391, 395, 396, 427, 443, 463, 483,
Itil, 276
-JJaffa, 351, 352
James, 305
Janissaries, 484
Japan, 114, 115, 139-141, 181, 250, 356358, 410, 477
Japanese, 139-141, 356, 357, 410, 414
Jerome, Saint, 4, 86-88, 451
Jerusalem, 4, 12, 16, 17, 32, 40, 53-56,
100, 121, 162, 169, 306, 323-325,
342, 350-352, 380, 392, 393
Jesus, see Christ
Jews, 4, 9, 10-12, 15, 16, 25, 27, 29, 32,
33, 39-41, 43, 44, 47, 53-56, 87, 88,
100, 114, 162-164, 166, 168, 169,
182, 184, 185, 197, 251, 276, 287289, 323, 325, 340-344, 350, 351,
383, 393, 396, 442, 443
Jewish Revolt
First, 32, 39, 53, 54
Second, 53-56
Jimmu Tenno, 140
Joan of Arc, 370, 436, 466-470
Job, 145
John (apostle), 4, 9, 10, 27
John of Montecorvino, 411
John, King of England, 339, 342, 353,
355, 370, 383-385
John XII, 274
Jomsvikings, 215
Joseph, 23
Joseph of Arimathea, 125
Josephus, 31-33, 39-41, 43, 53, 55
Jovita, 28
Judaism, 12, 31, 73, 160
Judea, 13
Julius Caesar, 23, 97, 123, 228, 229,
314, 479
Justinian I, 128-131, 276, 482-484
Juno, 60
Jupiter (Zeus), 53, 54, 66
Jutes, 100, 123, 145, 229, 314
-KKaaba, 160, 161, 163, 164, 166
Kaifeng, 282
Kallaallit Nunaat, see Greenland
Kami, 140
Kao Tsung, 176, 177
Kara Kitai empire, 410
Khadijah, 161
Kharaz, Simaan El, see Simon, Saint
Khazars, 275
Kiev, 216, 276, 377
Koran, 161, 164, 168
Korea, 115, 139, 410
Koreans, 140, 486
Kublai Khan, 370, 409-411, 413, 414,
445, 446
Kukulcan, 81
Kupe, 257
Kush, 262
Kushites, 262, 263
Kyushu, 139
-LLabrador, 301
Lancelot, Sir, 126
Langland, William, 354
Lech River, 273
Lesbos, 199
Leo III, 198, 199, 209
Leon, 306
Li Yuan, 156
Lindisfarne, 215
Lollards, 451, 465, 487
Lombards, 144, 208
Lombardy, 145
London, 230, 337, 350, 443, 460
Louis VII, 325, 335, 336
Lucius III, 334
Ludmilla, 270, 271
Lully, Raymond, 398
Lumhanan, 304
Lupercalia, 60
Luther, Martin, 85, 452
Lydveldid Island, see Iceland
Lyon, 333
-MMacbeth, 250, 303, 304
Maccabees, 43
Machu Picchu, 479, 480
Magna Carta, 383-385
Magnus, Albert, 396, 427
Magyars, 273, 275
Mahabharata, 72
Maimonides, Moses, 342-343, 396
Mainz, 195, 486
Malcolm III, 304
Malory, Sir Thomas, 436
Malta, 17
Maori, 250, 257-260
Margaret, Saint, 467
Mark (apostle), 286
Mark-land, see Labrador
Mars Hill, 15
Marseille, 381
Martin V, 451, 463
martyr, 10, 27, 29, 61, 62
Martyr, Justin, 29
Mary (Jesus’ mother), 23, 198, 450
Masada, 4, 39-41, 53
Massenet, Jules, 307
Matilda, Queen, 315, 316
Mauri, 183
Maxentius, 67
Maximian, 65, 66
Maya, 4, 80-82, 431
Mecca, 160-163, 166, 185
Medina, 162-164, 169
Mediterranean Sea, 16, 99, 100, 182,
263, 380, 413, 483
Melanesia, 257
Merlin, 124, 126
Meroe, 265
Merovingians, 207
Mesopotamia, 53, 201, 212, 350
Methodius, 115, 226-227, 270
Mexica, see Aztecs
Mexico, 4, 80-82, 429, 430
Mexico City, 429, 430
Mi Feng, 284
Michael the Archangel, 467
Michelangelo, 158, 428
Micronesia, 258
Middle East, 99, 169
Milan, 8
Milvian Bridge, battle of, 67, 68
Minamoto Yoritomo, 357
Ming dynasty, 370, 445, 446
Ming Huang, 159
Mohammed, 114, 115, 161-164, 166169, 183, 186, 197, 211, 323, 393
Mohammed II, 484, 485
Mokattam Mountain, 289
Mongolia, 409, 410, 445, 446
Mongolian Empire, 409, 411
Mongols, 275, 409-411, 443-446
Monica, 83
Montezuma, 432
Moors, 114, 182, 183, 185, 201, 305
Moravia, 227
Moravians, 226
Mordred, 126
Moses (from the Old Testament), 168,
197, 380, 393
Moses, 288
Mount Badon, battle of, 125
Mozarabs, 184, 186
Mozart, 428
Muallqat, 166
Muslims, 114, 157, 160, 163, 164, 166169, 182, 184, 185, 197, 201, 202,
208, 209, 251, 276, 287, 289, 305307, 323-325, 341, 351, 352, 376,
380, 393 396, 411
-NNaddod, 254
Nagrila, Samuel ibn, 187
Nahal Hever, 55
Naples, University of, 392, 395
Nara, 141
Native Americans, 293, 302
Navarre, 305
Nebuchadnezzar, 181
Nero, 3, 17, 23-27, 31, 32, 66
Netherlands, 260
New Zealand, 250, 257-260, 477
New Zealanders, 259
Newfoundland, 301
Nicene Creed, 69
Nicholas, 380, 381
Nicholas, Saint, 61
Nieuw Zeeland, see New Zealand
Nigeria, 169, 263
Nile River, 263
Nippon, see Japan
Noah, 254, 477
Nok, 263
Notre Dame, 121
Normandy, 216, 314, 316
Normans, 231, 314-317, 434
North America, 80, 216, 257, 292, 300302, 355, 477
North Americans, 400
North Island (of New Zealand), 258
Norway, 215, 216, 222, 255, 290, 291,
300
Norwegians, 255
Nova Scotia, 301
Novgorod, 276
Nubians, see Kushites
Nunavut, 301
-OObadiah, 343
Oceania, 251, 258
Octavia, 24
Octavian, 23
Odin (Woden), 224
Odoacer, 100
Olbia, 275
Orleans, 469
Osman, 483
Ostrogoths, 100
Otto I (Otto the Great), 249, 273, 274,
277
Ottoman Empire, 482, 485
Ottoman Turks, 370, 482-485, 488
Oxford University, 399, 443, 449, 450,
462
-PPachacuti, 478, 479, 481, 484
Pakistan, 169
Palestine, 201, 323-325, 381, 392, 413
Pan, 60
Panticapeum, 275
Parthians, 39
Paris, 216, 336, 395, 396, 399, 443
Patricius, 83
Patrick, Saint, 4, 94-96, 164
Paul (Saul of Tarsus), apostle, 3, 4, 1117, 25, 27, 31, 197, 341, 482
Peking, 155, 410, 413 see also Beijing
Pelagius, 186
Pelagius II, 144
Pentecost, 18
Pepin the Short, 207, 320, 392
Percivale, Sir, 126
Perfectus, 186
Perpetua, 29
Persia, 212, 275, 410, 443
Persians, 166, 275
Peru, 478
Peter (apostle), 4, 8-10, 25, 27, 143, 195
Peter the Hermit, 324, 325
Petrarch, Francesco, 429
Petrobrusians, 249, 333, 334
pharisee, 11, 12, 15, 31, 43
Philip VI, 434
Phoenicians, 182
Phrygia, 66
Pied Piper of Hamelin, 380
Picts, 136, 137
Pilate, 125
Pillars of Hercules, 183
Pliney the Younger, 48
Poggius, Fra, 463, 464
Poitiers, 201
Battle of, 435
Poland, 227, 273
Poles, 273
Polo, Marco, 139, 370, 411-414, 445
Polycarp, 28
Polynesia, 258
Polynesian Islands, 257, 258
Polynesians, 258
Pompeii, 45-47
Poppaea, 24
Portugal, 182, 306
Portuguese, 448
Porziuncola, 375, 377
Prague, 272, 462
Pricilla, 16
Procopius, 129
Protestants, 143, 457
Punic Wars, 183
Pyrenees Mountains, 182, 208, 209, 305
-QQin dynasty, 155
Qumran, 43
Quraish, 162
-RRachel, 197
Radbod, 194, 195
Rahman, Abd al-, 183-185, 208-210
Ramayana, 72
Rashid, Harun al-, 211, 212
Reconquista, 306, 307
Red Sea, 137, 160, 381
Reims, 468, 469
Renoir, 428
Reykjavik, 255
Rhine River, 380
Richard I the Lionhearted, 250, 338,
339, 350-353, 355, 380, 383, 384
Richard II, 384, 435
Roland, 209
Rollo, 216
Rome, 4, 16, 17, 23-27, 21-33, 41, 42,
44, 47, 54, 60, 65, 71, 81, 85, 97,
100, 114, 121, 128, 143-145, 195,
197, 209, 229, 273, 287, 321-323,
373, 377, 463, 385
Roman Catholic Church, 143, 276, 378,
397, 452, 470
Roman Empire, 23, 27, 65, 68, 84, 87,
96, 98-100, 120, 128, 144, 155, 208,
209, 274, 409
Eastern, see Byzantine Empire
Holy, 209, 273, 274, 321, 322, 391,
427
Western, 4, 67, 97, 100, 101, 113,
123, 128, 143, 183, 184, 201,
208, 229, 482
Romania, 483
Romans, 4, 16, 24, 25, 27, 31-33, 39, 47,
53, 72, 80, 84, 85, 97, 98, 99, 114,
123, 124, 128, 136, 166, 183, 184,
197, 198, 224, 228, 229, 273, 314,
317, 323, 341, 447
Romulus Augustus, 100
Rostislav, King of Moravia, 226
Rouen, 466, 469
Rudolf, 321
Runnymede, 384
Rurik, 276
Rus, 276
Rusafa, 185
Russia, 216, 224, 226, 227, 250, 275277, 292, 410, 411, 443, 484
Rustichello, 414
-SSacsahuaman, 478
Sahara, 262, 263
Saint Andrew, Monastery, 144
Saint Damian, 374
Saint Helens, Mount, 46
Saint Peter’s Cathedral, 209
Saint Sophia, 129, 130, 276, 277, 483
Saint Vitus, 272
Sadducees, 31, 43
Saladin, 350-352, 380
Salerno, University of, 392
Salisbury Castle, 338
Samudragupta, 71
Santiago de Compostela, 308
Saracens, 209
Saragossa, 209, 306
Sardinia, 145
Sarmatians, 275
Sarqaq, 292
Saudi Arabia, 287
Sawiras, 287, 288
Saxons, 100, 124, 125, 145, 208, 209,
229, 314
Scandinavia, 115, 214, 254, 443
Scheherazade, 212
Scotland, 136, 137, 194, 216, 303, 304,
416, 417
Scots (Scottish), 124, 137, 304, 416,
417, 343
Scott, Sir Walter, 355
Scythians, see Persians
Sefarad, 114, 182 see also Andalus, al-;
Cordoba
Seine River, 216, 470
Seljuk Turks, 323-325, 351, 483
Seneca, 24
Serbia, 227
Serbs (Yugoslavians), 483
Serene, 343
Sergius Paulus, 13
Shah Jahan, 411
Shahriyar, 212
Shakespeare, William, 303, 304, 436
Shang dynasty, 155
Sheng Kuo, 283
Shikoku, 139
Shinto, 140
Shotoku Taishi, 114, 140, 141, 356, 357
Siberia, 296
Sicilians, 393
Sicily, 145, 391, 393, 395
Silas, 15
Simon, Saint, 249, 288, 289
Siward of Northumberland, 304
Skerries, see Greenland
Slavs, 226, 227, 273, 275
Slovakia, 227
Sluys, 434
Smyrna, 28
Snorri, 301
Snowland (Snaeland), see Iceland
Song dynasty, 282-285, 410
South America, 258, 370, 477, 481
South Americans, 477
South Island (of New Zealand), 258, 259
Spain, 45, 100, 114, 182-184, 186, 201,
207-209, 211, 216, 305-307, 341,
343, 376, 377, 477, 487
Spanish, 186, 305-307, 432, 479-481
Stafford, Robert, 355
Stephen (apostle), 4, 10, 11
Stephen of Cloyes, 381
Stewart Island (of New Zealand), 258
Stilicho, 102
Stirling Bridge, Battle of, 416
Stonehenge, 228, 229, 314, 317
Stuart, David, 82
Stylites, Simon, 85
Sudan, 169, 263
Sui dynasty, 155, 156
Sweden, 179, 181, 214, 216, 222, 254
Swedes, 180
Swift, River, 451
Switzerland, 208, 463
Symphorosa, 28
Synod of Worms, 320
Syria, 183, 185, 201, 326
-TT’ai Tsung, 156, 176
Taj Mahal, 411
Tajikistan, 169
Talmud, 343
Tamerlane, 411
Tanais, 275
Tang dynasty, 156-158, 282
Tariq, 183
Tarsus, 11, 12
Tasman, Abel, 260
Tawantinsuyo, 477, 479
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 277
Temple (Jewish), 9, 32, 39, 53, 54, 100,
323, 343, 350, 380
Tenochtitlan, 430
Tertullian, 30
Texcoco, Lake, 430
Thailand, 115, 411
Thames, 384
Theodora, 128-131, 482, 483
Theodosia, 275
Theodosius II, 97
Thessalonica, 226
Thjodhild, 291, 300
Thor, 194, 224, 255
Thorfinn, 301
Thorvald, 301
Thulte, 292, 293
Tiananmen Square, 447
Tiber River, 100
Tigris River, 350
Timothy, 15
Titicaca, Lake, 479
Titus, 32, 33, 100
Tiw, 224
Toledo, 184
Tolstoy, Leo Nikolaevich, 278
Torah, 343
Tours, 201, 207, 468
battle of, 201, 202
Tower of London, 316
Trajan, 27, 28
Troyes, treaty of, 436
Tryggvason, Olaf, 300
Tunisia, 169, 212
Turkey, 11, 413, 483
Turkistan, 323, 411
-UUmayyad dynasty, 114, 183, 184, 186,
208, 211, 305, 341
United States, 46, 80, 94, 169, 201, 258,
260, 262, 334, 355, 370, 384, 429
Unity of the Brethren, 465, 487
Urban II, 323, 324, 325
Uruguay, 334
-VValencia, 306, 307
Valentine, Saint, 4, 60
Valentinian III, 121
Valerian, 29
Vandals, 100, 102, 183
Varangians (Swedish Vikings), 216
Vedas, 73
Venetians, 414
Venice, 413, 14
Venus, 60
Vercingetorix, 127
Verdun, treaty of, 210
Vespasian, 32
Vesuvius, Mount, 45-47
Vietnam, 411
Vikings, 115, 214-216, 222-224, 229,
230, 255, 276, 293, 302, 304, 314,
317, 409
Vilgerdarson, Floki, 254, 255
Vinland, 216, 301, 302
Virgil, 427
Visigoths, 97, 100, 183
Vladimir I of Russia, grand duke of
Kiev, 250, 275-277
Volga River, 276
Voltaire, 231
Vulgate, 87, 88
-WWailing Wall, 162
Waitangi, treaty of, 260
Waldensians, 249, 333, 334
Waldo, Peter, 333, 334
Wales, 136
Walter the Penniless, 324, 325
Wallace, William, 370, 416, 417
Wang, Empress, 176
Wenceslas, duke of Bohemia, 249, 270272
Wessex, 194, 229, 230
Westminster Abbey, 315
William the Conqueror, 216, 250, 314317, 319, 322, 336, 434
William the Pig, 381
Wiltshire, 228
Winfred, see Boniface
Wu Tao-tze, 158
Wu Zetian (Wu Zhau, Mei-Niang), 157,
176-178, 282
Wycliff, John, 369, 449-452, 462, 464
-XXia dynasty, 155
-YYadin, Yigael, 55
Yellow Sea, 410
Yamato clan, 140
Yang Chien, 155
Yang Do, 155, 156
Yang Kwei-fei, 159
Yangtze River, 155
Yaroslav the Wise, 277
Yemen, 169
York, 216, 315
Yorkshire, 353
Yuan dynasty, 410
Yugoslavia, 483
Yung-lo, 446
-Z-
Zaid, 161
Zealots (Sicarii), 39, 40
Zeeland province (in the Netherlands),
260
Zenobia, Queen, 59
Zhao Kuangyin, 282
Zhejiang province (in China), 284
Zhongguo, see China
Zhou dynasty, 155
Zimbabwe, 250, 262-264, 477