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Before that vast period of separate existence, the sun and earth and the other planets that circulate round the sun may have been a great swirl of diffused matter in space. The telescope reveals to us in various parts of the heavens luminous spiral clouds of matter, the spiral nebulae, which appear to be in rotation about a centre. It is supposed by many astronomers that the sun and its planets were once such a spiral, and that their matter has undergone concentration into its present form. Through majestic aeons that concentration went on until in that vast remoteness of the past for which we have given figures, the world and its moon were distinguishable. They were spinning then much faster than they are spinning now; they were at a lesser distance from the sun; they travelled round it very much faster, and they were probably incandescent or molten at the surface. The sun itself was a much greater blaze in the heavens.
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Mnemonics, Chinese and Peruvian method of, 76
Moabites, 117
Moawija, Caliph, 431
Mogul dynasty, 292, 433
Moluccas, 329
Monarchy, 323, 341, 347
Monasticism, 213, 236
Money, 114, 176, 201, 319
Mongol conquests, influence of, 298
Mongol Court, the, 299
Mongol Empire, 332
Mongolia, 197
Mongolian language, 108
Mongolian peoples, 72, 73, 88, 167, 197, 227, 232, 233 et seq., 245, 258, 287 et seq., 298, 320, 333, 400, 433
Mongoloid tribes, 69
Monkeys, 43, 45
Monotheism, 251. (See also Muhammad)
Monroe doctrine, 349, 389, 396, 423
Monroe, President, 349
Montesquieu, 371
Montgomery, 385
Month, the lunar, 68
Moon, the, 2, 3, 6, 8, 10, 68
Moorish paper-mills, 297
More, Sir Thomas, 365, 371
Morelly, 371
Morocco, 185, 398
Mortillet, 57
Moscow, 293, 434
Moscow, Grand Duke of, 290
Moses, 116
Moslem Empire, 253
Moslems, 297, 431, 432
Moslim, the, 253, 269, 271, 290
Mososaurs, 29
Moses, 23
Mounds, Neolithic, 70
Mountains, 197
Mozambique, 329
Muehlon, Herr, 424
Muhammad, prophet, 243, 247, 248 et seq., 270, 431
Muhammad II, Sultan, 292, 433
Mules, 102
Mummies, 70
Munitions, 412
Musk ox, 43
Mycalรฆ, battle of, 136, 430
Mycenรฆ, 92, 108
Mycerinus, 83
Mylรฆ, battle of, 181, 430
N
Nabonidus, 111, 112
Nankin, 173
Naples, 178, 350, 431
Napoleon Bonaparte, 345, 347, 348, 356, 434
Napoleon III, 390, 434, 435
Nasmyth, 359
Natal, 398
โNational schools,โ 369
Natural history, father of, 144
Natural Selection, theory of, 17
Nautilus, the pearly, 39
Navarino, battle of, 353, 434
Neanderthaler Man, 47, 48 et seq.
Nebraska, 383
Nebuchadnezzar II (the Great), 102, 110, 115, 429
Nebulรฆ, 4, 5
Necho II, 109, 110, 115, 122, 147, 429
Needles, bone, 57
Negroid tribes, 72, 88
Nelson, Horatio, 348
Neolithic age, 59, 65
Neolithic civilizations, primitive, 71 et seq.
Neptune (planet), 2, 3
Nero, 195, 430
Nestorian missionaries, 431. (Cf. Missionaries)
Netherlands, 259, 309, 351
Neustria, 431
Neva, 327
New Assyrian Empire, 97
New Atlantis, The, 322, 355
New England, 335, 337
New Mexico, 433
New Plymouth, 433
Newts, 24
New York, 358, 434
New Zealand, 322, 396, 405
Newfoundland, 405
Nicรฆa, 268, 270
Nicรฆa, Council of, 431
Nicephorus, Emperor, 432
Nicholas I, Tsar, 351, 390, 434
Nicholas II, Tsar, 416
Nickel, 360
Nicomedia, 227
Nieuw Amsterdam, 434. (Cf. New York)
Nile, 83, 100, 129, 398; valley 90, 429
Nile, battle of the, 434
Nineveh, 94, 97, 101, 109, 114, 243, 429, 431
Nippur, 78
Nirvana, 161
Nish, 227
Noahโs Ark, 91
Nogaret, Guillaume de, 284
Nomadic peoples, primitive, 84 et seq., (Cf. Nomads)
Nomads, 122, 155, 167, 168, 174, 198-200, 233-34, 245, 287, 334
Nonconformity, 307, 308
Nordic race, 72, 88, 104, 108, 134, 154, 155, 174, 178, 185, 197, 200, 233, 258, 261
Normandy, 263, 342, 432
Normandy, Duke of, 266
Normans, 263, 266, 279, 302
Northmen, 263, 264, 266, 268, 432
Norway, 306, 313, 432
Norwegians, 351
Novgorod, 294, 432
Nubians, 238
Numerals, Arabic, 282
Numidia, 191
Numidians, 182
Nuremberg, 294
Nuremberg, Peace of, 313
O
Ocean dredgings, deepest, 4
Ocean liners, 322, 336
Octavian. (See Augustus)
Odenathus of Palmyra, 431
Odoacer, 236, 431
Odyssey, 127
Ogdai Khan, 287, 289, 432
Oglethorpe, 336
Okapi, 397
โOld Man,โ 372, 373
Old Testament, 115, 116
Olympiad, first, 176, 429
Olympian games, 131
Olympias, Queen, 146
Omar, Caliph, 431
Open-hearth process, 359
Orange River, 398
โOrdinance of secession,โ 385
Oregon, 385
Organic Evolution, 16
Ormuz, 299
Orsini family, 284
Orthodoxy, 240
Osiris, 200, 210, 211
Ostrogoths, 227, 431
Othman, 432
Otho, 430
Otto I, King of Germany, 265, 432
Otto of Bavaria, Prince, 354
Ottoman Empire, 202. (See also Turkey, Turks)
Oudh, 394
Ownership, 373, 374, 375
Oxen, 49, 104, 112
Oxford, 295
P
Padua, 235
Pรฆstum, 176
Palรฆologus, Michael (Michael VIII), 283
Palรฆolithic age, 13, 59, 66 (note)
Palermo, 181
Palestine, 290, 299
Pamirs, 196, 300
Panama, 385
Panama, Isthmus of, 314
Pan Chau, 197, 430
Panipat, battle of, 433
Pannonia, 203, 229, 232, 234, 431
Papacy (including Popes), 237, 261, 265, 277 et seq., 329 et seq., 343
Papal schism (the Great Schism), 285, 394, 433
Paper, 153, 236, 255, 297, 320, 322
Papyrus, 78, 153
Parables, 216
Paradise Lost, 129
Parchment, 153
Paris, 294, 295, 342, 350, 356, 390, 391, 412, 413, 415, 435
Paris, Peace of, 338, 434
Parthian dynasty, 202
Parthians, 155, 192, 194, 198, 199, 245
Passau, Treaty of, 314
Patricians, Roman, 176, 188
Paul, St., 202, 223
Pavia, siege of, 312
Peace Conference, Dr. Dillonโs, 434
Peasant revolts, 305, 310
Peculium, 206
Pedro I, 340
Pegu, 300
Pekin, 173, 287, 300, 383, 400, 432
Peloponnesian War, 139, 145, 430
Pentateuch, the, 116
โPeopleโs crusade,โ the, 270, 432. (Cf. Crusades)
Pepi II, 83
Pepin I, 259
Pepin of Hersthal, 431
Pergamum, 154, 180, 183, 430
Pericles, 139, 140
Perry, Commodore, 402
Persepolis, 114, 148, 155
Persia, 77, 134 et seq., 165, 185,
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