Luxor, 101 Lvoff, Prince, 416 Lyceum, Athens, 142, 144 Lydia, 98, 134 Lydians, 94 Lyons, 345 M Macao, 329 Macaulay, Lord, 187 Maccabeans, 184 Macedonia and Macedonians, 131, 135, 139, 145, 179, 292, 350 Machinery, 322, 356 Madeira, 122, 302 Madras, 163 Magellan, Ferdinand, 302 Magic, 172 Magna Græcia, 129, 178 Magnesia, battle of, 183 Magyars, 263, 264, 270, 289 Mahaffy, Professor, 151 Maine, 336, 339 Majuba Hill, battle of, 398 Malta, 393, 407 Mammals, the earliest, 33; viviparous, 33; egg-laying, 34; the Age of, 37 _et seq. _ Mammoth, 43, 49 Man, brotherhood of, 216, 224, 380 Man, 43; Heidelberg, 45; Eoanthropus, 47; Neanderthal, 47, 48 _et seq._; earliest known, 53 _et seq._ Manchu, 333, 433 Manchuria, 197, 400, 402, 403, 404 Mangu Khan, 290, 433 Mani, 241, 270, 430, 431 Manichæans, 243, 255 Mankind, racial divisions of, 54, 71 Mantua, 345 Maoris, 71 Marathon, 136 Marathon, battle of, 430 Marchand, Colonel, 398 Marcus Aurelius, 174, 430 Marie Antoinette, 343, 346 Mariner’s compass, 302, 320 Marius, 191, 192, 237, 430 “Marriage of East and West,” 149 Mars (planet), 2, 3 Marseillaise, the, 343, 345 Marseilles, 129, 182, 312, 345 Martel, Charles, 259, 432 Marlin V, Pope, 286, 304 Marx, 376 Maryland, 337 Mas d’Azil cave, 57 Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico, 390, 391 Maximilian I, Emperor, 309, 433 Maya writing, 74, 75 Mayence, 265, 344 _Mayflower_ expedition, 433 Mazarin, Cardinal, 324 Mecca, 248, 249, 251, 431 Mechanical revolution, 256 _et seq._, 366, 369 Medes, 100, 108, 109, 115, 122, 134, 155, 174, 429 Media, rebellion in, 136 Median Empire, 109, 110, 112 Medicine man, the, 64 Medina, 249 Mediterranean, 71, 91, 176, 292, 293; valley, 71 “Mediterranean” people, pre-Greek, 130 Megatherium, 74 Megiddo, battle of, 110, 115, 429 Melasgird, battle of, 268, 432 Mentality, primitive, 60, _et seq._ Mercury (planet), 2, 3 Mesopotamia, 77, 80, 96, 100, 109, 127, 174, 267, 290, 299 Mesozoic period, 27; land life of, 28; sea life of, 30; scarcity of bird and mammal life in, 32, 34; its difference from Cainozoic period, 38 Messina, 179, 180 Messina, Straits of, 179 Metallurgy, 356, 359, 360 Metals, transmutation of, 257 Meteoric iron, 80, 94 Metz, 391 Mexico, 74, 76, 324, 321, 384, 385, 389, 399 Michael VII, Emperor, 268 Michael VIII. (_See_ Palæologus) Microscope, 355 Midianites, 117 Milan, 227, 235, 309, 312, 351 Miletus, 129 Millipedes, 23 Milton, 129 Ming dynasty, 290, 333, 433 Mining, 335 Minnesota, 385 Minos, 92, 95, 127, 131 Missionaries, 236, 247, 380, 400, 431 Mississippi (state), 385 Mississippi River, 386 Missouri, 382 Mithraism, 211, 212, 213, 222, 431 Mithras, 211, 213 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