Empires of the Word - Nicholas Ostler [352]
Mill, James, English philosopher 501, 513
Ming dynasty 121, 143, 144, 147, 148, 160
Mishnah 70n
Missionaries see Christianity
Mitanni 41, 62, 128, 196
Mitchell, Margaret 490
Mithradata 1257
Mithras 255
Mixtec 346, 352, 355
Moabite 70, 71
Moesia 310
Moldova 443
Molière, Jean-Baptiste, French dramatist 410
Molina, Fray Alonso de, Spanish friar 346
Monemvasia, Chronicle of 262
Mongolia 21, 121, 143, 427
people 153, 170-171, 207, 425-426, 555 religion 179
Mongolian 106, 108, 138, 140, 143, 145, 146, 156-157, 217
Monophysites 89
Monroe, James, US President 488
Montcalm, Marquess of, French general 415
Montecassino monastery 319
Montezuma see Motecuhzoma
Morgan, Henry, British pirate 480
Moscow 426-427, 431-432
Mossé, Fernand 472n
Motecuhzoma, Aztec tlatoani 1-4, 14-16, 353n
Motolinía (Fray Toribio de Benavente), Spanish Friar 368, 371
Mozambique 104-105, 387, 390, 399
Mufwene, Salikoko, historical linguist 559n
Mughal dynasty 106, 108, 212, 223, 497n, 514
Muhammad, Arab prophet 93-94, 96, 103, 260
Mühlenberg, F.A.C. 492
Muisca/Muysca see Chibcha
Multatuli (Eduard Douwes Dekker), Dutch novelist 395
Munda languages 177, 188, 197, 217
Mursilis, king 55
Muški 43
Muslims 88n, 92, 94-96, 141, 164, 212, 434
see also Islam
Musophilus (Daniel) 323
Musti, D. 249
Myiares, Andreas 265
Mysians 43
Nabada 37
Nahuatl 1-4, 14-17, 342, 344, 346, 350-355, 363, 368-369, 372, 374, 444, 521n
style contrasted with Spanish 14-15
Nālandā Mahāvihāra, Buddhist university 193, 194, 220-222
Nan-yue 146
Nanjing 151
Napata 127
Napoleon III, French emperor 301, 416n
Naturalis Historia (Pliny) 27, 336
Naucratis 130, 240n
Navajo census 489-490
Navarre 99
Nawat 350n
Near East 76, 90, 92, 111
Nearchus, Greek admiral 191-192
Nebrija, Antonio de, Spanish linguist 331, 345, 348, 380, 396, 446, 472
Nebuchadrezzar II, Babylonian king 44, 47, 59, 79
Nennius, chronicler of Britain 311
Nepali 176
Nesian 41n
Nestorians 88-90, 119, 120, 141, 158, 536
Netherlands 398, 400n, 409
New Granada 339, 367, 568n15
New Hebrides see Vanuatu
New World see Americas
New Zealand 506, 508, 510, 535
Newton, Sir Isaac 328
Nhengatu see Tupinambá
Nicephorus I, Byzantine emperor 262
Nieuw Nederland 492-493
Nigeria 508, 530
Nikolay II, Tsar 433
Nimrod 35n
Nimrud also Kalhu 88
Nineveh 49-50, 54, 65
Nippur 58
Nithard, Frankish chronicler 317
Norman French see under French
Normans 275, 319, 406, 447n, 458-460, 461-465
Norse 312, 314n, 447n, 460
Norsemen see Vikings
North Africa 37, 45, 46, 49, 70-71, 76, 78, 93, 122, 292, 536
Arabic in 100
French language in 418-419
Portuguese 382
spread of Islam 100-101, 209
North America
Seventeenth-century European colonies 482
American Revolution 486-487
and English 19, 241, 378, 457, 480 485, 486-492, 504-505, 518, 535
European population 415
and French 411-413, 415, 457
immigration 487, 491-492
Nouvelle-France 412-414, 486, 492-494
and Spain 378, 494-495
North American Review 474n
North Carolina 80
Nouvelle-France 412-414, 486, 492-494
Nova Scotia 414
Nubia 127-128, 129
numerals 37, 37n, 38, 50n
Numidia 78
Nuzi 62
Ny Sverige 492
Nyevskiy, Aleksandr, Russian prince 426, 447
Occitan 300
Odyssey 44n, 236, 251
Old Norse see Norse
Olmos, Father Andres de 346
Omotic 36
Onesicritus, Greek admiral 191
Origen, Church father 256
Oriya 198
Os Lusíadas (Camões) 382
Oscan 17, 242, 278-280, 291n, 299
Ossetic 48, 108
Ostrogoths 261, 306, 307
Otomí 352, 355
Ottoman dynasty 106, 121, 264, 266, 411, 434-435
Overall Survey of the Ocean’s Shores (Ma Huan) 147
Oxford Book of English Verse 474n
Pachacutec, Inca 357
Pachomius (Saint), Church father 133
Pacific 340, 417, 419, 448, 452, 454, 508, 513
Pahlavi 48, 98
Pakistan 85, 530
Palaic 39, 41
Palestine 42, 44, 48, 62, 79, 86, 111, 128-129,