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Persian Empire, 112, 134, 238, 429
Persian Gulf, 77, 78, 91, 299
Persian language, 95
Persians, 100, 108, 109, 115, 155, 174, 431
Peru, 74, 75, 314, 321
Pestilence, 305, 320, 334, 413, 430, 431, 433
Peter the Great, 327, 434
Peter the Hermit, 269, 270
Peterhof, 327
Petersburg, 127, 419. (See also Petrograd)
Petrograd, 416, 417. (See also Petersburg)
Petschenegs, 268
Phalanx, 145, 178
Pharaohs, the, 90, 96, 119, 131, 150, 188
Pharsalos, 430
Philadelphia, 358, 434
Philip, Duke of Orleans, 350
Philip, King of France, 285
Philip II, King of Spain, 314, 324
Philip of Hesse, 313
Philip of Macedon, 145, 146, 430
Philippine Islands, 302, 393, 400
Philistines, 100, 117
Philosopher’s stone, 257
Philosophers and Philosophy, 133, 139, 152, 168, 239, 294, 295
Phœnicians, 92, 94, 107, 123, 147
Phœnix, steamship, 358
Phrygians, 100, 108
Physiocrats, 371
Picture writing, 56, 57, 78, 79, 167
Piedmont, 345
Pirates and Piracy, 92, 179, 180, 200, 263
Pithecanthropus erectus, 45
Pizarro, 314
Plague, (See Pestilence)
Planetoids, 2
Planets, 2
Plant lice, 13
Plants, 22, 23, 36
Platea, battle of, 136, 430
Plato, 140, 142, 144, 170, 370- 71
Platypus, duck-billed, 34
Plebeians, Roman, 176, 177, 187-88
Plesiosaurs, 29, 30, 36
Poison-gas, 413
Poitiers, 432
Poitiers, battle of, 253, 259
Poland, 288, 327, 353, 434
Poles, 288, 419
Political experiment, age of, 318 et seq.
Political ideas, development of, 370 et seq.
Political science, founder of, 144
Political worship, 412
Polo, Marco, 299-300
Polynesian races, 71
Pompey the Great, 192, 193, 196, 198, 430
Pontifex maximus, 237, 261
Popes. (See Papacy)
Population, 379, 383
Port Arthur, 400, 403
Portugal, 340, 394, 396, 431
Portuguese, 302, 329, 332, 400
Porus, King, 149
Potato, 76
Potsdam, 327
Pottery, 75, 87X
Prague, 433
Prescott, 314
Priestcraft (including Priests), 64, 68, 69, 74, 75, 77, 83, 111, 114 et seq., 122, 131, 132, 167, 174, 275, 277
Primal Law, 61
Primates, 43. (Cf. Mammalia)
Printing, 80, 153, 247, 255, 298, 302, 305, 306, 320, 322, 329
Priscus, 234
Property, 274, 372, 374, 375
Prophet, Muhammad as, 249
Prophets, Jewish, 118, 122 et seq.
Proprietorship, 373
Protestantism, 316, 324, 327, 351, 400
Proverbs, book of, 116
Prussia, 327, 348, 351, 390, 391, 392, 434, 435
Prussia, East, 412, 415
Psalms, 116
Psammetichus I, 109, 429
Psycho-analvsis, 69
Pterodactyls, 28, 29, 31, 36
Ptolemy I, 149, 150, 151, 186, 211
Ptolemy II, 151, 186
Punic language, 203
Punic Wars, 180 et seq., 187, 188, 430
Punjab, 163, 199
Puritans, 335
Pygmies, 397
Pyramids, 69, 83, 100
Pyrenees, 253, 432
Pyrrhus, 178, 179, 430
Q
Quebec, 434
Quinqueremes, 180
Quixada, 314
R
Races of mankind, 71 et seq.
Railways, 322, 350, 357, 382, 383, 384, 389, 395, 396, 409, 434
Rain, 9, 10
Rameses II, 96, 147, 429
Rasputin, 415, 416
Ratisbon, Diet of, 313
Ravenna, 431
Reading, 176
Rebus, 79
Red deer, 56
Red Sea, 91, 118, 122, 196
Reformation, the, 308
Reindeer, 43, 49, 51, 56, 73
Religion, and the creation of the world, 1; and organic evolution, 16; primitive, 61, 64
Religions, 172, 222 et seq., 240 et seq., 319. (Cf. Buddhism, Christianity, etc.)
Religious developments under the Roman Empire, 208 et seq.
Religious wars, 270, 304, 313. (Cf. Crusades)
Reptiles, the age of, 26 et seq.; mental life of, 38
Reproduction, 17 et seq.
Republic, Plato’s, 142
Republic, the Assimilative, 187
Republics, 187 et seq., 236, 308, 324, 328, 340, 343, 344, 416, 433, 434, 435
Republicans, the first, 131
Retreat of the Ten Thousand, 150
Revolution, 342 et seq., 349 et seq., 390, 404, 416, 435
Rhine, 200, 227
Rhine languages, 236
Rhineland, 270, 306
Rhinoceros, 43, 49
Rhodes, 108
Rhodesia, 407
Rhodesian man, 52
Richelieu, Cardinal, 324
Richmond, U.S.A., 386, 388, 389
Roads, 114, 187
Robertson, 316
Robespierre, 345, 346, 434
Robinson, J. H., 284
“Rocket,” Stephenson’s, 356
Rock pictures, 57, 78
Rocks as record of beginnings of life, 11 et seq.
S
Sabellians, 224
Sabre-toothed tiger, 43
Sacrifice, 102, 103, 167, 174, 182, 186, 211, 212. (Cf. also Blood sacrifice, Human sacrifice)
Sagas, 106
Saghalien, 404
Sailing ships, 91, 336
St. Angelo, castle of, 312
St. Helena, 407
St. Sophia, church of, 238
Saladin, 272, 432
Salamis, battle of, 180, 430
Salamis, bay of, 136
Salerno, 282
Samarkand, 256, 297
Samnites, 430
Samos, 129
Samson, 116
Samurai, 401
San Francisco, 383
Sandstones, 26
Sanskrit, 95, 107, 156
Sapor I, 430
Saracens, 264, 265, 297
Saratoga, 338
Sardanapalus (Assurbanipal), 98, 109, 111
Sardinia, 182, 185, 232, 309, 351, 390
Sardis, 98
Sargon I, 90, 92, 109, 122, 429
Sargon II, 97, 109, 429
Sarmatians, 100
Sassanid dynasty, 227, 241, 430
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