Encyclopedia of Society and Culture in the Ancient World

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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 animals, 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 epidemics 825 animals, herding of. See herding 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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