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Stanley, Sir Henry, British explorer 418
Statute of Kilkenny 143n, 464-465
Strabo, Greek geographer 191, 232, 241, 252, 277, 279, 282, 335
Strasburg Oaths 308n, 317
Stuyvesant, Pieter, last governor of Nieuw Nederland 493n
Sudan 98
Suebi 305, 307
Súi dynasty 119, 141
Sullivan, John L., US journalist 486
Sumatra 147, 204-205, 213
Sumer 31, 37, 39, 41-44, 51, 53, 57
Sumerian 11n, 32, 33, 37, 38, 41, 46, 49-56, 52, 55, 60-62, 68, 163, 536
bilingualism with Akkadian 51, 53-57, 111, 163
cuneiform 11n, 32, 37, 39-40, 40, 42, 46, 50, 51, 54-55, 57, 61-63, 72n
edubba system 62-63
school texts 37
Susa 56-57, 61, 258
šušan see Susa
Swahili 97n, 103-105, 419n, 532
Sweden 410, 433, 486, 492
Switzerland 407, 410
Syriac 87-88, 90, 131, 250, 255, see also Aramaic
Syria 20-21, 37, 38, 44, 48, 79, 86, 128-129
Greek overlordship 245, 247, 259
Syrian Jacobite Church 90
Tabgach 106, 119, 140, 144, 151, 153, 306n
Tacitus 273, 277, 280, 288, 302, 309, 311n
Tagalog 377-379, 544
Tai languages 141
Tai Zong, Chinese emperor 159
Taiwan 451-453
Tajikistan, 47, 99, 108, 437
Tale of Sinuhe, Egyptian romance 129n
Talmud 87, 90n, 217
Talon, Jean, intendant of Nouvelle-France 414
Tamazight 127 see also Berber
Tamil 160, 177, 198, 201, 507, 530, 544
TaNaK, Hebrew Scripture 70n, 96
Tang dynasty 119, 120, 141, 146, 151, 158, 169, 178, 209
Tangier 93
Tangut 142
Tanis 151
Tanzania 104-105, 508, 532, 544
Taoism 172
Tarascan 352, 355, 372
Tāriq bin Ziyād, Moorish conqueror 95, 99
Tartessians 290
Tatars 106, 306n, 422, 423n, 433, 434, 435, 440
Taxila 85, 181, 258
TeleGeography 544n
Telugu 177, 187, 198, 530
Tempest, The (Shakespeare) 334
Tepoztlán 368
Teutonic knights 447
Tezozómoc, Fernando Alvarado, Nahuatl chronicler 353-354
Thai 134, 141, 208; script 202
Thailand 147n, 148, 161, 205, 208, 528
The 1001 Nights 98, 103
Thebes 127, 129, 151
Themistocles, Greek general 5, 555
Thirty-Six Strategems 171
Thoby, Henry, British Indian civil servant 503n
Thracians 282, 290
Thucydides 233
Tibet 80, 141, 178-179, 203, 221
Tibetan 21, 134, 209
script 156, 211-212, 564-565
Tibeto-Burman languages 177
Tiglath Pileser I, king of Assyria 43, 423n
Tiglath Pileser III, king of Assyria 65
Tigre 36, 92
Tigrinya 36, 92
Tigris 39, 40n
Timur-i-leng (Tamerlane, Tamburlaine), Turkic conqueror 90
Tocharians see Kushāna
Togan Timur, Chinese emperor 143
Tok Pisin 508
Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese shōgun 388, 450
Toledo 93, 99
Tolstoy, Count Leo, Russian writer 410, 439
Tongking 146
Top Twenty Languages 19n, 525-533
Torah, 70n, 111, 217
Toribio de Benavente, Fray see Motolinía
Tordesillas line 336-337, 385
Torres, Luis de, Spanish interpreter 335
Totonac 348, 352, 355
Trade 10, 21, 56, 61-62, 74, 75, 128, 130, 146-149, 154, 213, 229, 242, 313, 326, 334, 357, 363, 385-387, 391, 397, 402, 412, 416, 441, 444, 450, 511, 547
’Rich trades’ 397
Trajan, Roman emperor 259n, 310
Treaties
Georgievsk 434
Nerchinsk 427
Paris 415, 494
Rastatt 411
St-Clair-sur-Epte 460
Tordesillas (Tardesilhas) 336-337, 385, 392
Utrecht 414n
Waitangi 506
Trevisa, John de 467, 468, 471
Triadon, Coptic poem 134
Triads of Ireland, The (Meyer) 272
Trogodyte 131, 232
Tsunataro, Aoyagi, Japanese political analyst 453
Tuareg 101
Tunebo 363
Tungus languages 21, 138, 140, 142, 143
Tunisia 93, 97
Tupí-Guaraní languages 362, 363
Tupinambá 349-350, 363, 393, 571n15
Turkic languages 105-108, 138, 140, 141, 212, 219, 223n, 306n, 425, 427, 435, 443n, 514, 528n
possible lingua franca 531, 547
runic alphabet 106
scripts 106
Turkmenistan 437, 443n
Turks
advance across Anatolia/Aegean 264
and Arabic 101
Christian Orthodoxy 264, 269-270
Turkish conquests 263-265, 528n
Turkish 21, 97n, 105n, 108, 163, 263, 547, 554
Tyndale, William 473
Tyre 44, 68n, 71,