Crete, 92, 108 Crimea, 419 Crimean War, 390, 434 Crocodiles, 28 Crœsus, 111, 429 Cro-Magnon race, 51, 54, 65 Cromwell, Oliver, 434 Cronstadt, 419 Crucifixion, 204 Crusades, 267 _et seq._, 281, 304-05, 432 Crustacea, 13 Ctesiphon, 244 Cuba, 393 Cultivation, the beginnings of, 65 _et seq._ Culture, Heliolithic, 69 Culture, Japanese, 402 Cuneiform, 78 Currents, 18 Cyaxares, 109-10, 429 Cycads, 26, 36 Cyrus the Persian, 111, 116, 121, 123, 134, 429 Czech language, 236 Czecho-Slovaks, 351 Czechs, 304 D Dacia, 195, 200, 203, 227, 236 Dædalus, 94 Dalmatia, 431 Damascus, 243, 253, 431 Danes, 329, 330 Danube, 135, 200, 227, 430 Dardanelles, 136, 147, 292 Darius I, 112, 134, 135, 136, 429 Darius III, 147, 148, 430 Darlington, 356, 434 David, King, 118-19, 429 Da Vinci, Leonardo, 356 Davis, Jefferson, 385, 388 Dawn Man. (_See_ Eoanthropus) Dead, burning the, 104; burial of (_See_ Burial) Debtors’ prisons, 336 Deciduous trees, 36 Decius, Emperor, 200, 432 Declaration of Independence, 334, 434 _Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_ (Gibbon’s), 288-89 Deer, 42, 56 Defender of the Faith, title of, 313 Defoe, Daniel, 365 Delhi, 292, 433 Democracy, 131, 132, 270 Deniken, General, 419 Denmark, 306, 313, 394, 432 Deshima, 401 Devonian system, 19 Diaz, 433 Dictator, Roman, 194 Dillon, Dr., 424 Dinosaurs, 28, 31, 36 Diocletian, Emperor, 224, 226, 227 Dionysius, 170 Diplodocus Carnegii, measurement of, 28 Diseases, infectious, 379 Ditchwater, animal and plant life in, 13 Dogs, 42 Domazlice, battle of, 305 Dominic, St., 276 Dominician Order, 276, 285, 400 Dorian Greeks, 108, 130 Douglas, Senator, 386 Dover, Straits of, 193 Dragon flies, 23 Drama, Greek, 139 Dravidian civilization, 108 Dravidians, 71 Duck-billed platypus, 34 Duma, the, 416 Durazzo, 268 Dutch, 329, 331, 332, 399 Dutch Guiana, 394 Dutch Republic, 350 Dyeing, 75 E Earth, the, shape of, 1; rotation of, 1; distance from the sun, 2; age and origin of, 5; surface of, 21 Earthquakes, 95 East India Company, 332, 337, 393, 394 East Indies, 394, 399 Ebro, 182 Ecbatana, 109, 114 Echidna, the, 34 Eclipses, 8 Ecnomus, battle of, 181, 430 Economists, French, 371 Edessa, 271 Education, 294, 361, 368, 369 Egbert, King of Wessex, 263, 432 Egg-laying mammals, 34 Eggs, 24, 26, 31, 102 Egypt (and Egyptians), 71, 78, 90, 91, 62, 96, 98, 100- 101, 115, 119, 121, 122, 123, 124, 134, 138, 147, 174, 208, 209, 210, 238, 253, 267, 290, 292, 396, 398, 405, 429, 431, 434 Egyptian script, 78, 79 Elamites, 88, 90, 174 Elba, 348 Electric light, 360 Electric traction, 360 Electricity, 322, 358, 360 Elephants, 42, 127, 149, 178, 181, 253, 300 Elixir of life, 257 Elizabeth, Queen, 324, 332 Emigration, 336 Emperor, title of, 327 Employer and employed, 375 “Encyclopædists,” the, 371 England (and English), 306, 390, 431 England, Norman Conquest of, 266 England, overseas possessions, 330 English Channel, 331