Empires of the Word - Nicholas Ostler [351]
Lithuania 24n, 424-425, 431, 432
Liuye see Soma
Livius Andronicus, Latin poet 251, 299
Livonia 432
Livy, Roman historian 285
’Livy of Anáhuac’ 344
Logograms see writing
Lombards 306, 307, 309
Lomonósov, Mikhail, Russian scholar 439
López de Santa Anna, Antonio 494
Loprieno, Antonio 113n
Lorenzana y Buitrón, Antonio de, Archbishop of Mexico 373-374, 539
Louis XIII, French king 409
Louis XIV, French king 409, 414
Low German 312
Lud 35n
Ludlul Bēl Nēmeqi 30
Ludwig the German, king 317-318
Lulubi 43
Luoyang 151
Lusitanian 288n
Lusophone 390
Luther, Martin, German reformer 326, 447, 472-473
Luwian 39, 41, 44, 50, 62, 71, 84
Luzon 148
Lycian 83-84, 86
Lydia 46, 47, 83
Lydian 12, 30, 35n, 41, 4748, 83-84, 86, 249
M&A (Merger & Acquisition) 19, 24
Ma Huan, Chinese mariner 147
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, British pundit 22n, 496, 503n, 516n
Macedonia 98, 269, 293
Macedonian 85, 131, 290
MacKinnon, Revd D., British teacher 500
Macmillan, Harold, British prime minister 541
Madagascar 101, 105, 412, 418-419
Madison, James, US President 488
Magadhi 177, 178, 187-190, 192, 197, 218
Maghreb 100
Maghrebi 78n
Magyars 306, 309, 425
Mahābhārata 176, 184, 195, 197, 204, 206-207
Mahābhā⋅ya (Pataõjali) 180
Maharashtra 188-189
Majumdar, R.C., Indian scholar 206
Malay 97n, 208, 380, 400-403, 444, 446, 457, 476, 498, 532, 539
Malaya 204n, 205, 213, 505, 507, 536
Malayalam 198, 528
Malaysia, 147n, 149, 161, 199, 201, 385, 387, 390, 398, 400, 506n, 544
Malcolm III, Scottish king 463
Malin-tzin, Mexican interpreter 342, 355
Malory, Sir Thomas, English writer 332
Malta 71, 97
mamelucos 371
Mameluke dynasty of Egypt 121
Manchu 171, 308n
people 170-171, 308n
Manchuria 21, 121, 138, 143-146, 148, 380, 427
Manco Capac, Inca 357
Mandaean/Mandaic 90n
Mandarin see Chinese
Manātho, Egyptian historian 165n
Manichaeans 141
Mansilla, Fray Juan de, Spanish friar 364
Manu Law Code 186-187, 194
Māori 506
Mapuche 349, 363
Mapudungun 349, 361, 363
Marathi 188, 528, 530
Mari 37, 39, 41, 53, 60-61
Marquette Père, French explorer 412
Martial, Latin poet 523
Martinique 415
Marx, Karl, German sage 438n
Massachusett 483, 484-485
Massaesylia 75
Massylia 75
Mauritania 98
Max Havelaar (Multatuli) 395
Maya 1-4, 11n, 348, 352, 364n, 372
Mecca 94
Meckel, Major, strategic consultant 451
Medawar, Peter, British biologist 403n
Medes 43, 47, 56, 79, 87
Median 131
Medina 94
Medjay 131n
Megasthenes, Seleucid ambassador 191-192, 247
Mehmet, Ottoman Sultan 266n
Melanesians 22
Memphis 127, 151
Memphite theology 113-114
Menander, Greek dramatist 234
Menander, Greek king 192, 219, 230, 246
Menander of Ephesus, Greek historian 71
Mencius, Chinese sage (also Meng-zi) 137n, 152
Mendes Pinto, Fernāo, Portuguese explorer 388-389
Menéndez Pidal, R.307
Menes, pharaoh 124, 151
Merchants see Trade, Free enterprise
Merikare, pharaoh 122, 154
Merneptah, pharaoh 126
Meroitic 128
Mesopotamia 21, 38, 41, 42-45, 47-50, 53, 55, 56, 60-61, 65, 79-80, 83, 86, 154, 164, 209, 247, 257-258, 536
Mesrop Mashtotz, Armenian Bishop 88
Messapian 242
Mestizo 17, 338, 342-345, 347, 367, 372-376
see also Interracial families
Mexica 346n, 351, 367, 375, 377
Mexicana, lengua, see Nahuatl
Mexico 308, 364, 366, 444, 488, 531
sixteenth-century languages 352
compulsory Spanish 374
indigenous languages 375-376
lenguas generates 367
Mexican cession 487, 494-495
population in 1559 568n14
printing presses 346
republic of Indians 368
Spanish occupation 1-4, 12, 14-17, 337, 340, 342, 346, 349, 392, 494-495
and US economy 379
Micronesia 448, 452-454, 510, 573n70
Middle East 21, 43, 45, 110-112, 377
linguistic innovations 29-35, 37
Middle English 66n, 125
Midrash 70n
Mien 134
Milinda 192, 230, 246
Milinda-paõha, Questions of King Milinda 192, 246