Western Civilization

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Index


Italicized page numbers show the
locations of illustrations. Maps (map)
and tables (tab.) are indicated
separately.
al-Abbas, Abu, 192
Abbasid caliphate, 192–93, 193 (map), 231,
241
Abbess, 160
Abbot, 158, 221
Abd al-Rahman I (Umayyad), 193
Abolition of slavery, 339
Abortion, 179
Abraham (patriarch), 30
Absolutism: in central Europe, 366–68; in
eastern Europe, 368–70; limits of,
370–71; in Ottoman Empire, 370; in
Russia, 368–70; in western Europe, 358,
362–66
Abu Bakr, 168
Abu Simbel, Temple of Ramesses II at, 24
Account of the Court of Attila the Hun, An
(Priscus), 151–52
‘‘Accusation of the Ritual Murder of a
Christian Child by Jews, An,’’ 240
Achaean League, 82 (map)
Achaemenid dynasty (Persia), 40
Achilles (Greek hero), 52, 52
Acre, 245
Acropolis, 54, 60; Parthenon in Athens and, 64
Actium, Battle of, 116
Act of Supremacy (England), 313, 322
Address to Philip(Isocrates), 75
Address to the Nobility of the German Nation
(Luther), 305
Administration.SeeGovernment
Adoration of the Magi(Du ̈rer), 291, 293
Adriatic Sea, 95
Adultery: in Egypt, 24; in Frankish culture,
156; in Rome, 124
Aediles (Rome), 98
Aegean region, 49, 51, 60
Aegospotami, battle at, 62
Aeneid(Virgil), 129
Aeolian Greeks, 51
Aequi people, 99
Aeschylus, 63
Affonso of Congo (Bakongo), 339
Africa: Carthaginian territory as, 102; human
origins in, 2; Portugal and, 329;
Romanization in, 126; slaves and,
338–39, 340.See alsospecific locations
Afterlife, in Egypt, 19
Against Celsus(Origen of Alexandria), 140–41
Agamemnon (Mycenae), 51, 52
Age of Pericles (Athens), 60
Agincourt, Battle of, 256
Agora, 54
Agrarian society, medieval, 187

Agriculture: in 16th century, 352; Assyrian,
38; Columbian Exchange and, 351; in
Egypt, 17; in Hellenistic world, 85; in
Middle Ages, 199, 200–202, 250;
Neolithic, 4, 5; in Rome, 129; three-field
system of, 201–2.See alsoLand
Agrippina (Rome), 132
Ahuramazda (god), 44–45, 138–39
Ain Ghazal, statue from, 5
Akbar (Mughal Empire), 342
Akhenaten (Egypt), 20, 21
Akhetaten (city), 20
Akkadian empire, 10
Akkadian language, 10 (tab.)
Alaric (Visigoth), 150
Albany, New York, 347
Alberti, Leon Battista, 274–75, 278
Albigensian heresy, 238, 238
Albuquerque, Afonso d’, 330
Alchemy, 387
Alcohol, in Middle Ages, 180
Alcuin, 178
Ale, 180, 202
Alemanni people, 147, 150
Alexander(movie), 79, 79
Alexander VI (Pope), 281, 297
Alexander Nevsky, 231
Alexander the Great,73,73–74, 76 ; Aristotle
and, 66; Arrian on, 78; at Battle of Issus,
76, 80 ; conquests by, 74, 76–81, 77
(map); Judah and, 32; legacy of, 78–81
Alexandria, Egypt, 76, 83, 85; bishop of, 149;
culture in, 85; population of, 125
Alexius I Comnenus (Byzantine Empire),
241, 242
Alfonso VIII (Castile), 227
Alfonso X (Castile), 227
Algebra, Islamic, 195
Ali (Muhammad’s son-in-law), 168–69
Allah, 166–67
Alliances: Hanseatic League as, 276; Hittite-
Egyptian, 29; Peloponnesian League as,
58
Allies, Roman, 103, 115, 150
Alphabet: Cyrillic (Slavonic), 191; Greek, 36
(tab.), 52; Latin, 36 (tab.), 98; Phoenician,
35, 36 (tab.), 52.See alsoWriting
Alva, duke of, 321
Amazon region, 336
Amenhotep IV (Egypt).SeeAkhenaten
(Egypt)
America(s): European empires in, 345–47;
horses in, 348; naming of, 333; voyages
to,327,328.See alsoNew World
American Indians.SeeIndians (Native
Americans)
Amiens, 217
Amish, 312
Amman, Jordan, Ain Ghazal near, 5
Ammianus Marcellinus, 151
Amon-Re (god), 20
Amores(Ovid), 130
Amorites (Old Babylonians), 10
Amsterdam, 353
An (god), 12
Anabaptists, 312
Anatolia, 29, 241.See alsoTurkey

Anatomy, 394, 397
Ancestors: Chinese, 349; Roman, 111
al-Andalus (Spain), 193
Andalusia, 227
Andes Mountains, 336
Angkor kingdom (Cambodia), 342
Angles, 154
Anglican Church.SeeChurch of England
Anglo-Dutch trade wars, 351
Anglo-Saxons, in England, 154, 222–23
Animals: in Columbian Exchange, 351; in
Neolithic period, 4, 5; in Paleolithic
period, 3, 4
Anjou, France, 224, 292
Anjou family, in Naples, 261
Annals(Tacitus), 132
Anne (England), 376
Antapodosis(Liudprand of Cremona), 189
Anthemius of Tralles, 164
Anthony (Saint), 157
Antigone(Sophocles), 63
Antigonid dynasty (Macedonia), 81
Antigonus Gonatus (Macedonia), 81
Antioch: bishop of, 149; in Crusades, 243;
population of, 125
Antiochus IV (Seleucid), 91
Anti-Semitism: Black Death and, 253;
medieval, 238–39.See alsoJews and
Judaism
Antonine dynasty, 137
Antoninus Pius (Rome), 125
Antony, Mark, 115–16
Antwerp, 353
Apennine Mountains, 95
Aphrodite (goddess), 67
Apollo (god), 67
Apostles, 141–42
Appian Way (Via Appia), 101
Apprentices, medieval, 211
Aqueducts, 111, 125, 126
Aquinas.SeeThomas Aquinas
Aquitaine, 224
Arab Empire, 170
Arabia, Rome and, 125
Arabian peninsula, at time of Muhammad,
166, 167
Arabian Sea, 167
Arabic language, 194
Arabs and Arab world: cities and, 209; Islam
and, 165–70; in Middle Ages, 192–95;
Portugal and, 330; trade in, 166, 167.
See alsoIslam; Middle East
Aragon, 227; house of, 262
Aramaic language, 10 (tab.)
Archaic Greece, 54
Archbishops, 233
Archelaus (Macedonia), 74
Arches, in Gothic cathedrals, 217, 218
Archimedes and Archimedian screw, 88–89,
386
Architecture: Byzantine, 163–64; classical
style (Greece),64,64–65; Gothic,217,
217–18, 218 ; Greek columns in, 64 ;in
Italian Renaissance, 287, 288 ;
monumental, 6; Roman, 111, 129;
Romanesque,216,216–17; Sumerian, 7
Archons (Athens), 58

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