Empires of the Word - Nicholas Ostler [342]
Artaxerxes, king of Persia 82
Arte de la Lengua General …del Perú 334, 346
Arthur, legendary king 461
Arthurian legends 313
Arwadites 35n
Aryan languages 41, 176-178, 187-190, 195-198, 212n, 216-217, 223
Aryāvarta 186-187
Ashdod 129
Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria 32, 54, 59
Asia
English 505, 513, 528
French empire 417
immigration 535
Iranian languages 109
Persian 108
Portuguese empire 385-390, 496
Roman rule 252
Turkic languages 107
Asia Minor 12, 295
Aśoka, emperor 84, 151, 178, 186-9, 197-9, 208, 215, 218, 220, 246, 503n
Assamese 176
Asshur 35n, 61, 66
Asshurbanipal 56
Assyria 13, 30, 40, 42, 44, 46-47, 49, 56, 61-65, 111, 120, 423n
deportations 65-66, 79
and Egypt 128-129, 164-165
Astrakhan 106, 427
Atahuallpa, Inca emperor 342-343, 356
Atatürk, Turkish priest 105n
Athens 232-233, 242, 254n
Attila, Hun general 106, 306
Atsuya, Washisu 449
Attic dialect of Greek 229-230, 231n, 271
Atticism 255-257, 329
literature 268
writers 254n
Augustine (Saint), bishop of Hippo, 46, 75-76, 307n, 308
Augustus, Roman emperor 76, 259
Austin, Moses, US developer 490, 494
Australia 12, 19, 505-506, 508, 510, 514n, 535
Austria 448
Austro-Asiatic languages 201, 205
Austronesian 22, 205
Avars 41, 262, 306, 425
Avesta scriptures 48, 96
Avienus, Roman poet 290
Aymara 357, 364, 368, 370
Ayvu Rapyta 361
Azerbaijan 93, 434-435, 443n
Aztecs 1-4, 12, 15, 348, 351-355, 372
Babur, emperor 106, 212
Babylon 53, 55-57, 278
civilization 30, 50, 53, 56-57, 58-61, 63-64, 66, 70, 79-80, 82, 129, 165
dynasties 44, 47, 68
Kassite takeover 40-41, 55, 60, 62, 63
use of Akkadian 42, 61, 67n, 111, 130, 247
and Nimrod 35n
origin of name 58
Talmud 90
Babylonia, Greek overlordship 245, 247
Bacchylides, Greek lyric poet 130
Bacon, Francis, English sage 328
Bactria 178, 257-258
Bactrian 48n, 108
Baghdad 101, 167
Bahasa Indonesia 403, 444, 532
Bairoch, P.510, 575-576n65
Bali 204, 207
Balkans 261, 424
and German 447
military catastrophe 273
population 260n
Slav invasions 310, 423
spread of Slavic 275, 280, 309
Baltic states 429, 431, 432-433, 439, 442
Baluchistan 47
Bantu languages 9, 22, 23n, 103-104, 507, 532
Banu Hilal 100-101
Barbarians 158, 160, 167-170, 227, 228, 230, 232
Basa Perteges (Dutch) 389n
Basham, A.L. 216
Basil I, Byzantine emperor 262
Basque 301
Basques 290, 306n
Basshar bin Burd, Persian poet 98
Batavi 398n
Bayeux Tapestry 319
Bazin, Louis 139
Beal, Samuel 138n
Becket, Thomas à, Norman bishop 408
Bedouin 93
Behistun, rock inscription 32, 57
Beijing 143, 144, 145, 151, 529
Beja 131n
Belarus 425, 429, 431, 439, 443
Belgium 407, 418-419
Bengal/Bengali 149, 527n, 528, 530
Berber (Tamazight) 127, 292, 307n, 412n
Berbers 36, 97, 99-100
Bernardino, Brother Gaspar de San 388
Bhāgavad Gītā 195
Bible
Authorised version in English 473n
Greek Septuagint 248
Latin Vulgate 294
New Testament 87
Matthew 87n
Old Testament 31, 70
translations 472-473, 485, 521, 573n114, 574n24
see also Hebrew, scriptures
Bislama 508
Bismarck, Otto, German Chancellor 505
Bît Bazi 44
Bithia 76
Black et al 69n
Boer War 399
Bogotá 341, 362, 366, 568n15
Bohairic dialect of Coptic 92
Bokhara 101
Bolivia 339, 357, 368, 370, 372
Book of Routes and Kingdoms 422n
Borneo 507
Bosnian, William 399
Bosnians 430n
Bourguiba, Habib, President of Tunisia 420
Bousquet, G.H. 402n
Boutros Ghali, Boutros 420
Boxer, C.R. 396n
Boyl, Father 365
Brahmi script 85n, 156; see also Indic scripts Brahui 39
Braudel, Fernand 85n, 110
Brazil 336, 373n, 374n, 380, 384, 385, 390-395, 444, 446, 480, 531
Brennus 293
Britain
bubonic plague/Black Death 313, 466-468, 518
and China 148-149
colonies 412, 415, 444, 482-484, 490-495, 505-511
see also India
empire 19-20, 478
immigrants 491, 506, 533-537
Industrial