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 Mycalæ, battle of, 136, 430 Mycenæ, 92, 108 Mycerinus, 83 Mylæ, 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 “National schools,” 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 Nebulæ, 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 Nicæa, 268, 270 Nicæa, 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 Noah’s 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