THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION (tm) Ver. 4.8

Index and Glossary

Durant, Will & Ariel

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INDEX AND GLOSSARY

This is a cumulative index and glossary for all eleven volumes of
The Story of Civilization. The electronic version of this index
includes only those entries which were originally accompanied by
pronunciations and/or dates; entries that refer the reader to page
numbers have been deleted. All dates are A.D. unless otherwise noted.
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Most entries and abbreviations are self-explanatory, but because
each volume of The Story of Civilization was published separately
over a period of forty years there were many variations. The

abbreviation ca. is the same as the abbreviation c. meaning

circa. Both abbreviations are used throughout. Dates are of birth and death except for rulers, lay and ecclesiastical, where they are of the reign; regnal dates are often, but not always, preceded by the

abbreviation r. A single, unaccompanied date indicates a floruit;

a single date preceded by fl. also indicates a floruit; if two
dates constitute a floruit, they are always preceded by fl.
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The following acknowledgments and information regarding
pronunciations are taken from the text preceding the indexes for the
volumes indicated:
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VOLUME 1:

GLOSSARY *01509 of foreign terms not immediately defined in the
text.
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I am indebted for this index to the careful and scholarly work of
Mr. Wallace Brockway. Dates are given where obtainable, except in the
case of living persons who are only incidentally mentioned in the
text. The pronunciation of Oriental words is indicated by the system
of diacritical marks used in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, but here
considerably simplified. *01512 The Indian pronunciations have been

supplied by Dr. A. K. Coomaraswamy; Chinese words follow for the most
part the pronunciations given in Gowen and Hall's Outline History of
China. Japanese words, and most Chinese words, have no accent. In the
case of ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern words there is no agreement
among the learned; and the pronunciations here offered are merely the
present writer's unauthoritative suggestions.

W. D.

VOLUME 2:

I am indebted for this index to the careful scholarship of Mr. Herbert Winer. The diacritical marks follow Webster's Dictionary. *02335

W. D.

VOLUME 3:

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I am indebted for this index to the careful scholarship of Mr. Arnold
Canell.

W. D.

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A tergo (L)- from behind.
Aahmes (a'-mez) II, King of Egypt (reigned 570-526 B.C.)
Aaron (a'ron)
Ab initio (L)- from the outset.
Abaqa, Khan (1265)
Abbas I, Shah of Persia (r. 1587-1629)
Abbas II, Shah of Persia (1642-67)
Abbas III, Shah of Persia (r. 1732-36)
Abbate, Niccolo dell' (c. 1512-71)
Abbeville, France, church of St. Wulfram (1480)
Abd-er-Rahman, Sa'di (1596-1656)
Abdera (ab-de'-ra)
Abdu-r Razzak (abd-er-raz-zak'), Persian traveler (1413-1475?)
Abdul-Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan (r. 1774-89)

Abelard, Pierre [Peter], French philosopher (1079-1142)
Abensberg, battle of (1809)
Abhidhamma (a-bi-dam'-ma)
Abington, Frances, nee Barton (1737-1815)
Abjuration Act (England, 1702)
Aboab, Isaac, da Fonseca (1605-93)
Abrabanel, Isaac (1437-1508)
Abrabanel, Judah Leon (d. 1535)
Abrabanel, Samuel (1473-?1550)
Absalom (ab'-sa-lum), son of Solomon (ca. 950 B.C.)
Abt, Thomas (fl. 1763)
Abtolim, Jewish rabbi (fl. 1st century B.C.)
Abu (a-boo')
Abu Sa'id (Timurid Sultan: 1452-69)
Abu Shahrein (a'-boo sharin') see Eridu
Abu Simbel (a'-boo-simbl)
Abu-Abd-Allahi, "Az-Zaghral" (1480)
Abu-al Hasan of Granada (1480)
Abu-al-Fida (1273-1331)
Abu-l Fazl (ab'-ool-faz-l), Indian statesman and historian

(ca. 1550-1600)
Abukir Bay, battle of (French-British, 1798)
Abukir, battle of (French-Turks, 1799)
abu'l-Ahahab (fl. 1771)
Abulafia, Samuel (d. 1360)
Abusir (ab'-oo-ser)
Abydos (a-bi'-dos)
Academus (ak-a-de'-mus)
Acanthus (a-kan'-thus)
Acarnania (ak'-ar-na'-ni-a)
Accius, tragic dramatist (170-? B.C.)
Acco (a'-ko)
Accolti, Bernardo (1465-1536)
Accoramboni, Vittoria (1557?-85)
Accord (Netherlands, 1566)
Accusation, Act of (1529)
Achaea (a-ke'-a)