| | |Mongols destroy Baghdad; | | overthrow Arab Empire, 1258 | | | |Marco Polo at court of Kublai | | Khan in China, 1271-1295 | | | |Ottoman Empire (Turks) founded, | |1288 | | | 1300-1400|Tamerlane ruler of Asia from | Aztec civilization in | Russia to Persian Gulf, | Mexico | 1369-1405 | | | | | 1400-1500|Ottoman Turks conquer most of | | Asia; block trade routes to | | Far East | | | |Moors expelled from Spain: | Columbus discovers | Beginning of Spanish | America, 1492 | exploration in New World | Baynes, Norman H., _The Byzantine Empire_. New York, Oxford University Press, Inc., 1926. Diehl, Charles, _Byzantium: Greatness and Decline_. New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1957. Duggan, Alfred, _The Lady for Ransom_. New York, Coward-McCann, Inc., 1954. Hussey, J. M., _The Byzantine World_. New York, Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1957. Kielty, Bernardine, _The Fall of Constantinople_. New York, Random House, 1957. Lamb, Harold, _Constantinople: The Birth of an Empire_. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1957. ——, _Theodora and the Emperor: The Drama of Justinian_. Garden City, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1952. Masefield, John, _Conquer, A Tale of the Nika Rebellion in Byzantium_. New York, The Macmillan Co., 1941. Schoonover, Lawrence, _The Gentle Infidel_. New York, The Macmillan Co., 1950. Scott, Walter, _Count Robert_. New York, The Macmillan Co., 1953. INDEX AND GLOSSARY Alexius Comnenus (Alexius I), 19-20, 22 Alexius IV, 20, 22, 107-109 Alexius Bushy Eyebrows (Alexius V), 109 Andronicus, 104 Anna Comnena, 19, 100 Ariadne, 49 army, 46, 47, 57-63 art, 95-99 Augusta, the, 48 Augustaion, 34 Augustus, the, 32 _autokrator_ (ô-tok’rƏ-tēr), 44 _bandon_ (ban’dƏn), 59 Bardas, 105 Basil I, 51, 105 Basil the Bulgar Slayer (Basil II), 17 _basileus_ (bas’i-lūs), 45, 47 _basilissa_ (bas-i-lis’Ə), 48 bazaars, 34, 89 Benjamin of Tudela, Rabbi, 17 bezant, 91-92 Blachernae, Palace of, 32 _Book of Ceremonies, The_, 50 Bosporus, 15, 25-26 Bouillon, Godfrey of, 14 Building of the Nineteen Beds, 29 Bukoleon, Palace of, 20, 28-32, 34, 87