1888. Frederick II (March), William II (June), German Emperors. 1912. China became a republic. 1914. The Great War in Europe began. 1917. The two Russian revolutions. Establishment of the Bolshevik regime in Russia. 1918. The Armistice. 1920. First meeting of the League of Nations, from which Germany, Austria, Russia and Turkey were excluded and at which the United States was not represented. 1921. The Greeks, in complete disregard of the League of Nations, make war upon the Turks. 1922. Great defeat of the Greeks in Asia Minor by the Turks. INDEX A Abolitionist movement,384 Abraham the Patriarch, 116 Abu Bekr", 249, 252, 431 Abyssinia, 398 Actium, battle of, 195 Adam and Eve, 116 Adams, William, 400 Aden, 405 Adowa, battle of, 398 Adrianople, 229 Adrianople, Treaty of, 353 Adriatic Sea, 178, 228 Ægatian Isles, 182 Ægean peoples, 92, 94, 100, 108, 117, 174 Æolic Greeks, 108, 130 Aeroplanes, 4, 363, 413 Æschylus, 139 Afghanistan, 163 Africa, 72, 92, 122, 123, 182, 253, 258, 302 Africa, Central, 397 Africa, North, 65, 94, 180, 192, 232, 292, 394, 397, 431 Africa, South, 72, 335, 398, 405 Africa, West, 393 “Age of Confusion,” the, 168, 173 Agriculturalists, primitive, 66, 68 Agriculture, 203; slaves in, 203 Ahab, 119 Air-breathing vertebrata, 23, 24 Air-raids, 413 Aix-la-Chapelle, 265 Akbar, 292, 332, 433 Akkadian and Akkadians, 90, 122, 429 Alabama, 385 _Alabama_, the, 388 Alani, 227, 430 Alaric, 230, 232, 431 Albania, 179 Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (Prince Consort), 434 Alchemists, 257, 294 Aldebaran, 257 Alemanni, 200, 431 Alexander I. Tsar, 348 Alexander II of Russia, 435 Alexander III, Pope, 274, 432 Alexander the Great, 142, 146 _et seq._, 163, 186, 240, 299, 430 Alexandretta, 147 Alexandria, 147, 151, 209, 222, 239 Alexandria, library at, 151 Alexandria, museum of, 150, 180 Alexius Comnenus, 268 Alfred the Great, 26 Algæ, 13 Algebra, 257, 282 Algiers, 185 Algol, 257 Allah, 252 Alligators, 28 Alphabets, 79, 127 Alps, the, 37, 197 Alsace, 200, 309, 391 Aluminium, 360 Amenophis III, 96, 429 Amenophis IV, 96 America, 263, 302, 309, 314, 324, 335, 336, 442-23, 434 America, North, 12, 330, 336, 382 American Civil War, 386, 435 American civilizations, primitive, 73 _et seq._ American warships in Japanese waters, 402 Ammonites, 30, 36 Amorites, 90 Amos, the prophet, 124 Amphibia, 24 Amphitheatres, 208 Amur, 334 Anagni, 284 Anatomy, 24, 355 Anaxagoras, 138 Anaximander of Miletus, 132 Andes, 37 Angles, 230 Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 405 Animals, (_See_ Mammalia) Annam, 402 Anti-aircraft guns, 413 Antigonus, 149 Antioch, 243, 271, 431 Antiochus III, 183 Anti-Slavery Society, 384 Antoninus Pius, 195, 430 Antony, Mark, 194 Antwerp, 294 Anubis, 210 Apes, 43, 44; anthropoid, 45 Apis, 209, 211 Apollonius, 151 Appian Way, 191 Appomattox Court House, 338, 435 Aquileia, 235 Arabia, 77, 88, 91, 122, 123, 248 Arabic figures, 257