Encyclopedia of Society and Culture in the Ancient World

(Sean Pound) #1
Index 1237

Alps mountain range 252, 262
Altaic language 614
amalgamation 686
amaranth 482
Amarna Hoard, el- 754f
Amarna Letters 350
Amarna Period
art 96–97
household goods 563
Amazigh people. See Berber
people
Amazon forests 721–722
Amazon River 268
Amazons 147
Ambarvalia people 795
amber
adornment 10
climate and geography 256
Amber Road 888–889
amelu 289
Amenemhet I (king of Egypt)
agriculture 23
art 96
borders and frontiers 142
cities 208
empires and dynasties 393
gender structures and roles
495
literature 645
resistance and dissent 871
Amenhotep II (king of Egypt)
1048–1049
Amenhotep III (king of
Egypt)
art 96
government organization
512
military 727
resistance and dissent 872
Amenhotep IV (king of
Egypt)
adornment 6
cities 207
economy 350
empires and dynasties
394
American Indians. See Native
Americans
Americas. See also Mesoamer-
ica; North America; South
America
adornment 13–14, 13f
agriculture 45–48
architecture 82–87, 84m
art 118–122
astronomy 133–134
borders and frontiers
148 –149
building techniques and
materials 161–162
calendars and clocks
172–173
ceramics and pottery
185–186, 185f
children 197–198, 197f
cities 230–233, 232f

climate and geography
264–269
clothing and footwear
282–284, 283f
craft s 294–296
crime and punishment
305
death and burial practices
321–323, 321f
drama and theater 338–339
economy 371–375
education 385–386
empires and dynasties
418–422
employment and labor
434–435
exploration 445–446
family 457–458
festivals 470–472, 471f
food and diet 481–482
foreigners and barbarians
490–491
gender structures and roles
503–504
government organization
534–539, 536f
health and disease 555–
556
household goods 569–571
hunting, fi shing, and gath-
ering 581–582, 582f
illumination 592
inventions 603–605
language 619–620
laws and legal codes
630–631
literature 665–666
metallurgy 686–688
migration and population
movements 719–722
military 735–736
money and coinage 762
music and musical instru-
ments 772–774
natural disasters 782–783
numbers and counting
805–806
occupations 817–818
pandemics and epidemics
828–829
religion and cosmology
861–866
resistance and dissent
881–882
roads and bridges 891–892
sacred sites 907–908
scandals and corruption
918–919
science 946–950
seafaring and navigation
96 0– 961
settlement patterns
972–973
ships and shipbuilding
983–985
slaves and slavery 994–995

social collapse and aban-
donment 1008–1009
social organization 1039–
1043
sports and recreation
1057–1058, 1060–1061
storage and preservation
1070–1071
textiles and needlework
1083–1085
towns and villages 1094–
1095
trade and exchange 1107–
1108
transportation 1120
war and conquest 1153–
1155
weaponry and armor
1171–1172
weights and measures
1181–1182
writing 1192
AmerInd languages 620
amethyst 743
Amon, priests of 872
Amorite people 699
amphidromia 194
amphitheaters
cities 228
sports and recreation 1056
amphorae
ceramics and pottery
183–184, 184f
cities 220
Amphora of Nessos 183
Amu Darya River 248
amulets
adornment 6, 8, 11
war and conquest 1154
Anabasis Alexandri (Arrian)
1045
Analects (Confucius) 199
Anatolia
agriculture 29
climate and geography
246–247
migration and population
movements 701
money and coinage 752,
757
settlement patterns 967
anatomy
health and disease 549–
550, 552, 553
science 941
Anaximander of Miletus
astronomy 130
calendars and clocks 171
ancestor worship
crime and punishment
297
family 452
gender structures and roles
495
religion and cosmology
847–848

Ancus Marcius (king of
Rome) 413, 414, 439
Andean culture
adornment 14
architecture 85–86
art 121
borders and frontiers 149
building techniques and
materials 162
clothing and footwear 283,
284
employment and labor 435
family 457
household goods 570
inventions 603
mining, quarrying, and
salt making 751
music and musical instru-
ments 773
war and conquest 1155
Andes region
agriculture 47
climate and geography
235, 267–268
economy 375
empires and dynasties
421–422
trade and exchange 1108
Andokides Painter 183
andrôn 77
Andronovan culture 704
Angkor people 156
Anglo-Saxon 654–655
Ani 94
Aniene River 261
animal fat 587, 588
animal husbandry
occupations 811
science 923
animals, domesticated. See
also livestock; specifi c ani-
mals, e.g.: cattle
agriculture 15, 16, 18, 26,
31, 47
food and diet 473, 476
hunting, fi shing, and gath-
ering 575
inventions 596, 599
migration and population
movements 708
nomadic and pastoral soci-
eties 788, 793, 794
occupations 808
pandemics and epidem-
ics 825
animals, herding of. See herd-
ing
animal sacrifi ce. See
sacrifi ce(s)
animal skins
clothing and footwear 272,
274, 277
economy 372
Animas Altas 86
animism 831, 844, 845
annales 827

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