Encyclopedia of Society and Culture in the Ancient World

(Sean Pound) #1
1250 Index

Egypt (continued)
gender structures and roles
495–496
government organization
511–514
health and disease 547–
548, 547f
household goods 562–563,
563 f
hunting, fi shing, and gath-
ering 573–575, 574f
illumination 585–586
inventions 594–596, 595f
language 611–612
laws and legal codes 622–
624, 631–633
literature 643–647,
668–669
metallurgy 679–680
migration and population
movements 693–698
military 726–728
mining, quarrying, and
sa lt ma k i ng 74 2–74 4
money and coinage
753–754
music and musical instru-
ments 764–765
natural disasters 776–777,
784
numbers and counting
799–800
occupations 809–810
pandemics and epidemics
821–822
religion and cosmology
831–832, 836–840, 866
resistance and dissent
871–872
roads and bridges 883–885
sacred sites 899–900
scandals and corruption
910–911
science 925–929, 950
seafaring and navigation
953–954
settlement patterns 964–
966
ships and shipbuilding
975–977
slaves and slavery 986–987
social collapse and aban-
donment 1000–1001
social organization 1014–
1018
sports and recreation
1048–1050
storage and preservation
1063–1064
textiles and needlework
1075–1077
towns and villages 1087–
1088
trade and exchange 1097–
1098
t ra nspor tat ion 1112–1113

war and conquest 1126–
1130, 1156 –1158
weaponry and armor
1162–116 4
weights and measures
1174 –1175
writing 1184–1185
Egyptian Legend of the
Creation 866
Egyptian screw. See Archime-
dean screw
Eighteenth Dynasty (Egypt)
art 94
cities 207
climate and geography
240
festivals 464
occupations 809
einkorn wheat 25
ekklesia 528–529
ekphora 319
Elamite Dynasties (Middle
East) 398
Elamite inscription 613f
Elamite people
empires and dynasties
398
migration and population
movements 701, 702
numbers and counting
800
Elamo-Dravidian group 609
elders
education 375–376
government organization
523–524
laws and legal codes 630
electromagnetism 931
electroplating 603
elegy 661
elements 934
Elements (Euclid)
numbers and counting
804
science 938
Elephantine
settlement patterns 964
towns and villages 1088
elephants
military 730
t ra nspor tat ion 1111, 1112
war and conquest 1139,
1149
Eleutherae 733f
Elgin Marbles 111
elite. See aristocrats
El Mirador 232
El Niño 266, 267
embalming 313, 320, 323
embroidery
clothing and footwear 274,
277, 284
textiles and needlework
1078, 1079, 1083
emmer wheat 21, 25
Empedocles 552

emperors
cities 227
laws and legal codes 626
scandals and corruption
914 f
social organization 1025
empires and dynasties 387–
425
Africa 388–391, 422–423
Americas 418–422
Asia and the Pacifi c 401–
406, 404m
Egypt 392–396, 395f
Europe 406–409
government organization
533–534
Greece 409–413, 424
Middle East 396–401,
400 f, 423
Rome 413–418
Empiricists
health and disease 554
science 943
employment and labor 425–
435. See also occupations
Africa 425–426
agriculture 38, 43
Americas 434–435
Asia and the Pacifi c 428–
430, 429f
economy 351–353, 372–
373
Egypt 426–427
Europe 430–431
government organization
520
Greece 431–432
Middle East 427–428
mining, quarrying, and
salt making 745, 747
Rome 433–434, 433f
social organization 1011,
1015–1016, 1020, 1038
emporia 711–712
en (Mespotamian political
leader)
government organization
515
towns and villages 1085
enactments 623
enameling 686
endemic disease
pandemics and epidem-
ics 825
science 926
engineering
numbers and counting
806
roads and bridges 883
England. See Britain
English Channel 255
Ennius, Quintus 661–662
ensembles 764
entablatures 74
entertainers 332

Enûma Elish (Th e Epic of
Creation)
literature 649, 669–671
religion and cosmology
841–842, 867
envelopes, clay 597
Epanggong Palace 67
ephebeia 383
Epic of Gilgamesh
art 99
exploration 438
gender structures and roles
497
literature 639, 647–648
military 728
epics 641, 647–649, 660–661
epic songs 832
Epictetus 292
Epicureans 943
epicures 481
epicycles 131
Epidaurus theater 75, 76f
epidemics. See pandemics and
epidemics
epigram 661
Epirus 258
Epistulae ad familiares
(Cicero) 258
epochs 168
equality 1034
equestrians
social organization 1037
sports and recreation 1055
equinoctial year 166
equinoxes
astronomy 128, 129
calendars and clocks 166
Erasistratus
health and disease 553
science 941
Eratosthenes
astronomy 131
numbers and counting 800
science 939
Erechtheum 432
Ereshkigal 315
Eridu
cities 202, 211
social organization 1019–
1020
Erlitou
cities 216
death and burial practices
317
erosion 260
erotic art 113
eschatology 844
Eskimos. See Inuit
estates 43
Etesian winds 257, 258
Ethiopia. See also Axum,
kingdom of
agriculture 20
architecture 53–56
government organization
510

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