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Chapter 80

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Yesterday, To-day, and To-morrow

There is a candy shop near where I live. On its sign it says, “Made Fresh Every Hour.” History is being made every day. It is being made fresh almost every hour. The newsboy even now is calling outside of my window, “Extra! Extra!” Is it a new war? Is it a new discovery? If you had clipped head-lines from the papers since the World War, here are some of the things you might have pasted in your scrapbook.

TREATY OF PEACE
SIGNED AT VERSAILLES

Nations Agree on Terms of Peace

The Mohammedan Turks in the East Are
Again Threatening the Christian
Nations of the West

THE IRISH FREE
STATE ESTABLISHED

After Centuries of Struggle to Become
Independent of England, Ireland at
Last, with England’s Permission, Has
Set Up a Government of Her Own

COLUMBUS OF THE AIR

Read, an American, Crosses Atlantic
Ocean for First Time in an Airplane;
Lands at the Azores and Then in
Portugal; Several Others Soon Follow,
and the Ocean Is Crossed a Number of
Times

WOMEN CAN VOTE AT LAST

All Through the Ages Women Have Had
Little or No “Say” in the Government;
Now, for the First Time, They Can
Vote in Our Country and in Most
Other Civilized Countries

STRONG DRINK PROHIBITED

The Use of Wine and Strong Drink,
Which Has Caused So Much Crime,
Disease, Death and Unhappiness, Has
Been Forbidden in the United States
and Limited in Many Other Countries;
in the Generations to Come, Men Will
Probably Marvel That There Was Once
a Time When People Drank Poison for
Pleasure

From now on you will have to read your history in the daily papers.

Up to this time, history has been marked by the story of one war after another, some big, some small, some short, some long. Almost always a fight has been going on somewhere. It has been War, War, War; Fight, Fight, Fight. Children scratch, kick, and bite. But the older we get, the less do we use our fists and feet to settle quarrels. So fighting seems to be a sign of childhood—that we are “kids”—and our fights, that we call wars, a sign of how young the world really is and we really are; a sign that the world is still but a minute or two old.

Now, we admire and praise as heroes Horatius, Leonidas, Joan of Arc, and General Foch and those others who have defended their countries against the attacks of the enemy, as we would admire a man who shoots a burglar or a murderer that attacks his family in the night. But those, whether kings, generals, or princes, who do the attacking and take life with no other excuse than to add to their power or wealth or glory, are no better than burglars who go forth with a gun and a blackjack to waylay, rob, and murder for the same purpose. War kills, war destroys, war costs millions of lives and billions of dollars—money that could be used to make us happy, instead of causing bitterness, suffering, misery, and unhappiness; blind men and cripples, widows and orphans. No one is better off, not even the winner. It is a terrible game, in which even the winner loses. And yet in the long run who knows? It may be the only way the world can grow!

But this is certain: if wars do not end, they will be fought with something more deadly, more terrible than shot and shell. Sooner or later, some man of science will invent a disease more catching than the terrible plague, more deadly than the Black Death with which to attack the enemy. But if such a disease is let loose, once started it will spread from one being to the next till every one has caught it and died and no one will escape. Or he will invent a poison to poison the air we breathe that will spread like the wind or like wildfire in dry grass, and there will be no stopping it. The air that wraps the globe will be a sea of poison gas. Every thing that breathes will take only one breath, and every man, woman, and child, every beast of the field, every bird and flying thing will drop dead. Or he will invent something a million times more powerful than gunpowder or dynamite—something so explosive that when discovered by some Mr. Swartz it will blow him, his house, his town, his country, and the whole world to kingdom come—and that will be the end of this little spark off the sun.

Perhaps you have looked through a microscope at what seem to be wars between germs. As germs might look up at the eye of the microscope through which we watch their life-and-death struggles, and wonder what is up above on the other side looking down at them, so we may look up at the blue eye of heaven above us and wonder what all-seeing, all-knowing, all-powerful being up there is watching our own life-and-death struggles here below.

Our little world, which seems so immense to us, is really only a tiny speck, only one of countless other specks floating in space; it is like one of the tiny motes which you may see any time in a sunbeam that shines in at the window. Who has an eye so keen that he can count the moving motes in such a beam of light? Who would miss one such grain of dust if it should disappear? So this grain of dust we call the World and all of us who live upon it could vanish without ever being noticed!

This story ends here, but only for the present, for history is a continued story and will never end.

If you were living in the Year 10,000 A.D., as some boy will be, your history would only be just begun when you had reached where we are now. Even the World War would then seem as long ago as the fights of the Stone Age men seem to us. You might think of us and all the inventions we consider so wonderful as we think of the discovery of copper and bronze.

Will the history that is written in the Year 10,000 have any wars to tell about? If the wars on Earth cease, will there be wars with other worlds?

And if there are no more wars, what will history tell about? Will it be new inventions? What kinds? Will it be new discoveries? We know every corner of the world now. Will it be the inside of this world or other new worlds or a spiritual world?

Perhaps then people will no longer use trains, steamboats, automobiles, or even flying-machines, but go from place to place as on some magic carpet, simply by wishing. Perhaps then they will no longer use letters, telephones, or telegraphs, or even radio, but read each other’s thoughts at any distance.

And so on—World without end—Amen!

PRONOUNCING INDEX

This list of the most important names in the book tells you on what page you may find each name and how to sound those you may not know.

Sound a as in hat.

“ aw “ “ saw.

“ ah “ “ ah!

“ ee “ “ see.

“ e or eh “ “ get.

“ er “ “ her.

“ i or ih “ “ hit

“ igh “ “ right.

“ o “ “ hot.

“ oh “ “ oh!

“ ow “ “ how.

“ u or uh “ “ up.

“ ew “ “ few.

  • Aaron (air´ un), 262
  • Abednego (a bed´ nee go), 261
  • Abraham (ay´ bra ham), 49, etc.
  • Acropolis (a krop´ o lis), 145
  • Adolphus, Gustavus (a dolf´ us), 396
  • Æneas (ee nee´ as), 190 etc., 196
  • Æneid (ee nee´ id), 196
  • Æsop’s Fables (ee´ sop), 447
  • Africa, 169, 348, 352
  • Age of Discovery, 347
  • Age of Miracles, 454
  • Aix-la-chapelle (ayks - la - sha pell´), 258, 298
  • Alaric (al´ a rik), 224
  • Alcuin (al´ kwin), 259, 260
  • Alexander the Great, 159 to 168
  • Alexandria, 163, 164
  • Alfred the Great, 264 to 270
  • Allah (al´ ah), 244 to 247
  • Alps, 173, 429
  • America, 271, 346
  • Americus, 346
  • Angle-land, 223
  • Angles, 223 to 230
  • Anglo-Saxons, 223, 229
  • Anno Domini, 26
  • Antony (an´ to nih), 190 to 192
  • Aphrodite (af ro digh´ tih), 60
  • Apollo (a pol´ lo), 58 to 63
  • Arabesques (air a besks´), 252
  • Arabia, 242, 252 to 256
  • Arabian Nights, 442
  • Arabs, 244 to 256
  • Ares (ay´ reez), 58
  • Arch of Constantine, 216
  • Arch of Titus, 216
  • Aristides (air is tigh´ deez), 133, 134
  • Aristotle (air is tott´ ell), 160, 166
  • Artemis (ar´ tee mis), 58
  • Arthur, 234, 311
  • Aryans (ar´ yans), 23, 56, 220, 256
  • Asia, 162, 248
  • Assurbanipal (ass er ban´ ih pal), 97, 98, 164
  • Assyria (as seer´ ih ah), 42, 94 to 98
  • Astarte (ass tar´ tih), 76
  • Athene (a thee´ nih), 59, 60, 145 to 154
  • Athene Parthenos (par´ the nos), 194
  • Athenians, 83, 114, 140 to 145, 236
  • Athens, 60, 83, 114, 126, etc.
  • Attila (at´ tih lah), 225 to 227
  • Augustan Age, 196
  • Augustus, 195 to 197
  • Austria, Austrian, 396, 408, 409, 440, 462
  • Azores, 466
  • Aztecs (az´ tecks), 355 to 357
  • Baal (bay´ al), 76
  • Babylon (bab´ in lun), 98 to 103, 106 to 108
  • Babylonia, 43 to 48
  • Babylonians, 45 to 49, 75
  • Bach (bahk), 439
  • Bacon, Roger, 324
  • Bagdad, 243, 254, 262
  • Balboa (bal boh´ ah), 350, 351
  • Baltimore, 455, 456
  • Bastille (bas teel´), 421, 422
  • Beethoven, Louis (bay´ to ven), 441, 442
  • Belgium, 461
  • Bell, 457
  • Belshazzar (bel shaz´ zar), 108
  • Benedict and Benedictines (ben´ eh dickt), 237
  • Bethlehem, 197, 216
  • Bible, King James, 387
  • Bishop of Rome, 218
  • Bismarck, 450, 451, 461
  • Black Death, 328, 468
  • Black Sea, 21, 169, 444
  • Blondel (blon dell´), 300
  • Boleyn, Anne (bool´ in), 370
  • Bourbon (boor´ bun), 449
  • Brahma, Brahmanism, Brahmanists (brah´ mah), 111, 112
  • Britain, 186, 223, 229
  • British Museum, 33
  • Bronze Age, 19 to 22
  • Brutus, 121, 189, 190
  • Bucephalus (bew sef´ a lus), 160
  • Buddha, Buddhism, Buddhists (bood´ dah), 112, 113
  • Byron, 97
  • Byzantium (bi zan´ shi um), 217
  • Cabot (kab´ ut), 350, 379
  • Cadmus (kad´ mus), 74
  • Cæsar, Augustus (see´ zer), 193, 196
  • Cæsar, Julius, 184 to 192
  • Cairo (kigh´ ro), 38, 196
  • Canaan (kay´ nan), 50, 54, 55, 70
  • Canada, 350, 417
  • Canary Islands, 340
  • Canterbury Cathedral, 309
  • Cape of Good Hope, 348
  • Cape Horn, 351
  • Cape of Storms, 348
  • Carthage and Carthaginians (kar´ thij), 78, 170 to 176
  • Caspian Sea, 21
  • Cathay (ka thay´), 316 to 322, 328
  • Cathedral of Notre Dame (nohtr´ dam), 309
  • Cathedral of Rheims (rhance), 309
  • Cathedral of St. Peter, 201
  • Catherine, 406
  • Catholic, 365 to 371
  • Cave Man, Men, People, 12, 22, 66
  • Cavour (ka voor´), 452
  • Caxton, 334
  • Ceres (see´ reez), 61
  • Chaldea, Chaldeans (kal dee´ ah), 43, 49, 55
  • Châlons (sha lahng´), 226
  • Charge of the Light Brigade, The, 445
  • Charlemagne (sharl maign´), 257 to 263
  • Charles the Great, 257, 259, 264
  • Charles I, 390 to 393
  • Charles II, 393
  • Charles V. of Spain, 367 to 369
  • Charles XII, 404, 405
  • Charles the Hammer, 249, 250, 257
  • Cheops (k ee´ ops), 38, 39
  • China, 316, etc.
  • Christ, 197 to 202
  • Church of St. Peter, 258, 366
  • Cincinnatus (sin sin nah´ tus), 122
  • Circus Maximus, 195
  • Civil War, 446
  • Clavichord (klav´ ih kord), 438
  • Cleopatra (klee o pah´ tra), 30, 188, 192
  • Clermont (kler mont´), 456
  • Clisthenes (klis´ the neez), 116, 117 133
  • Clotilda (klo till´ dah), 233
  • Clovis (klo´ vis), 233, 234
  • Cologne Cathedral, 309
  • Colosseum (kol o see´ um), 195, 205
  • Columbia, 346
  • Columbus, Christopher, 337 to 345
  • Commodus (kom´ mo dus), 213, 214
  • Confucius (kon few´ shus), 113
  • Constantine, 215 to 218
  • Constantinople, 217, 228, 231, 232, 248, 335, 336
  • Corday, Charlotte (kor day´), 427
  • Cordova (kor´ do vah), 243, 254
  • Corinthian, 148, 149
  • Cornelia, 182, 183
  • Cornwallis, Lord, 418
  • Corsica, 428
  • Cortés (kor´ te), 356, 357
  • Crécy (kres´ sih), 327 to 329, 336
  • Crimea, Crimean War (krigh mee´ ah), 444, 445, 446
  • Crœsus (kree´ sus), 104 to 106
  • Cromwell, Oliver, 391 to 393
  • Crusades (kroo say´ dz), 297 to 299, 302, 303
  • Cuneiform (kee nee´ ih form), 45, 75, 97, 99
  • Cupid, 60
  • Cyrus (sigh´ rus), 104 to 109, 124
  • Czar (zahr), 190
  • da Gama, Vasco (day gah´ mah), 348 to 350
  • Damascus (da mas´ kus), 254
  • Danes, 265, 266
  • Dardanelles (dar da nellz´), 135
  • Dare, Virginia, 379
  • Darius (dah righ´ us), 124 to 127, 132
  • Dark Ages, 229, 231, 261
  • David, 70, 71
  • da Vinci, Leonardo (dah vin´ chih), 364
  • Declaration of Independence, 416, 417, 423
  • Declaration of Right, 394, 423
  • Defender of the Faith, 369
  • Delphi (dell´ figh), 63, 106, 139
  • Delphic Oracle, 63, 107
  • Demeter (dee mee´ ter), 61
  • Demosthenes (dee mos´ the neez), 157 to 159
  • De Soto, 354
  • Diana (digh an´ ah), 58
  • Divine Right of Kings, 386, 390, 398
  • Domesday Book, 290
  • Doric (dor´ ik), 148, 149
  • Draco (dray´ co), 114, 115
  • Dutch, Dutchman, Dutch Republic, 374
  • Edison, Thomas Alva, 457
  • Edward III, 327
  • Egypt and Egyptians, 22, 27, 28, 30 to 41, 188, 192, 430
  • Elba, 432, 449
  • El Dorado (el do rah´ do), 354, 355
  • Elizabeth Tudor, 372, 374 to 381
  • England, 186, 223, 264 to 268, 284, 312, etc.
  • Epicureans (ep ih kew ree´ ans), 236
  • Epicurus (ep ih kew´ rus), 213
  • Episcopalians, 304, 365
  • Eternal City, The, 195
  • Etruscans (ee trus´ kans), 121, 122
  • Euphrates River (ew fray´ tees), 21, 22, 26, 42, 100, 106
  • Excalibur (eks kal´ ih ber), 234
  • Exodus, 54
  • Fairfax, Lord, 416
  • Fates, 61
  • Father of his Country—Peter the Great, 402
  • Washington, 419
  • Ferdinand, King, 338, 344, 367
  • Feudal System (few´ dal), 273, 277
  • Florida, 354
  • Foch, General (fush), 461, 467
  • Forum of Rome, 195, 206, 216
  • France, 224, 297, 395, etc.
  • Franco-Prussian War (frang´ ko-prush´ an), 451, 461
  • Franklin, Benjamin, 414, 417
  • Franks, 224, 233
  • Frederick Barbarossa (bar bah ross´ ah), 297, 298
  • Frederick the Great, 407 to 410
  • French Assembly, 452
  • French Revolution, 420, 422, 429
  • Freya (fray´ ah), 222
  • Fulton, Robert, 456
  • Gabriel (gay´ brih ell), 244
  • Gargoyles (gar´ goilz), 308
  • Garibaldi (gar ih ball´ dih), 452
  • Gaul (gawl), 169, 186, 223
  • Gautama (gaw´ tah mah), 111 to 113
  • Genghis Khan (jen´ gis kahn), 316, 317, 402
  • Genoa (jen´ oh ah), 337
  • George II, 412
  • George III, 413 to 418
  • German, 297, 366, 407, 451, 460
  • Gipsies, 24, 26
  • Gladiators (gla dih ay´ tors), 181
  • Godfrey, 296
  • Goddess of Reason, 426
  • Golden Age, 19, 97, 143, 150
  • Goliath (go ligh´ eth), 70
  • Gordian Knot (gor´ dih an), 163
  • Goshen (go´ shen), 51
  • Goths (gahths), 224
  • Gracchi (grack´ igh), 183
  • Graces, 61
  • Grand Monarch (Louis XIV), 398
  • Great Fire, 394
  • Great War, 309
  • Greece, 56, etc., 64, etc., 124, etc.
  • Greene, General, 418
  • Greenland, 271
  • Guido (gwee´ doh), 437
  • Gutenberg (goo´ ten berg), 334
  • Guy, 437
  • Hamites (ham´ ights), 23, 26, 28, 56
  • Hamlet, 383
  • Hammurabi (hah mew rah´ bee), 48
  • Handel, 437 to 440
  • Hannibal, 173, 174, 175, 182, 395
  • Harold, 286, 287
  • Haroun-al-Rashid (hah roon´ al rah´ shid), 262, 263, 267
  • Hastings, Battle of, 289
  • Hathaway, Anne, 381
  • Hanging Gardens, 101, 108
  • Hegira (he jigh´ rah), 244 to 249
  • Hellas (hell´ as), 56
  • Hellen, 56
  • Helen, 65 to 67, 79
  • Helena, 216
  • Hellenes, 56
  • Hellespont (hell´ ess pont), 135, 162
  • Henry VIII, 369 to 372
  • Hephæstus (he fess´ tus), 58
  • Hera (hee´ rah), 57
  • Hercules (her´ kew leez), 214
  • Hermes (her´ meez), 58
  • Herodotus (he rod´ o tus), 149, 150, 157
  • Hieroglyphics (high´ er o gliff icks), 30, 33
  • Hiram, 76
  • Holland, 464, 374, 403
  • Holy City, Holy Land, 293, 296
  • Homer, 68, 69, 79, 89
  • Horace, 196
  • Horatius (ho ray´ shus), 121, 467
  • Horus (hoh´ rus), 34
  • Hundred Years’ War, 327 to 329, 335
  • Huns, 225 to 227
  • Iceland, 271
  • Iliad (ill´ ih ad), 67
  • Incas (in´ kas), 357
  • India, 109, etc., 165, 387
  • Indians, 109, 343
  • Indo-Europeans, 23
  • Inquisition, 373
  • Invincible Armada (ar mah´ dah), 375
  • Ionic (igh on´ ick), 148, 149
  • Ireland, 465
  • Irish Free State, 465
  • Iron Age, 19 to 22, 64, 66
  • Ironsides, 391
  • Isabelle, Queen, 339, 367
  • Isis (igh´ sis), 34
  • Islam (iss´ lam), 245 to 250
  • Israel (iz´ rah ell), 50, 51
  • Israelites (iz´ rah ell ights), 302
  • Italy, 89, etc., 173, 452
  • Jacob, 50
  • James I, 380, 385 to 387, 390, 412, 430
  • Jamestown, 413
  • Japan, 112, 445, 446
  • Jefferson Thomas, 416
  • Jerusalem, 70, etc., 205, 292, etc.
  • Jesus, 197, 363
  • Joan of Arc (jone of ark), 330 to 332, 467
  • John, King, 311 to 314, 390
  • Joseph, 50, 51
  • Juno, 57, 65, 211
  • Jupiter, 57, 61
  • Justinian (jus tin´ i an), 231 to 233, 336
  • Kaiser (kigh’ zer), 190
  • Knights of the Round Table, 235
  • Koran (koh´ ran), 245, 252
  • Kublai Khan (koo´ bli kahn), 318 to 320
  • Laconia (lah koh´ ni a), 82
  • Laconic (lah kon´ ik), 82
  • Lady of the Lamp, 445
  • Lafayette (la fay et´), 417, 442
  • Laocoon (lay ock´ oh on), 66
  • Last Supper, The, 364
  • Lavinia, 90
  • Lebanon, 72, 78
  • Leif Ericson (leef ehr´ ick son), 271
  • Leningrad (len´ in grad), 405
  • Leo I (lee´ oh), 226
  • Leonidas, 137 to 140
  • Lictor (lick´ tor), 121
  • Lincoln, President Abraham, 447, 448
  • Lion of the North, 396
  • Louis I (loo´ ih), 302, 395
  • Louis XIII, 395, 397
  • Louis XIV, 395, etc.
  • Louis XVI, 420
  • Lucy, Sir Thomas, 381
  • Luther, 366, 367
  • Lycurgus (ligh ker´ gus), 79 to 82
  • Lydia (lid´ i ah), 104 to 106
  • Macedonia (mass ee doh´ ni ah) 156, etc.
  • Madman of the North, 405
  • Magi (may´ jigh), 104
  • Magellan (ma jell´ an), 351, 352
  • Magna Carta (mag´ nah kar´ tah), 313, 34
  • Marathon, 127 to 130
  • Marco Polo (mar´ koh po´ loh), 318, 337, 338
  • Marconi (mar koh´ nih), 458
  • Marcus Aurelius (mar´ kus ah ree´ li us), 211, 213, 220
  • Maria Theresa (ma righ a te ree´ sah), 408 to 409
  • Marie Antoinette (mah ree´ an toah net´), 321 to 423
  • Marne, 461
  • Mars, 58, 61, 222
  • Marseillaise (mar say ly ayz´), 425
  • Masks, 145
  • Massachusetts, 388
  • Mayflower, 388
  • Mazda, 104
  • Mecca (mek´ ah), 243 to 246, 248
  • Medes (meeds), 98, 103, 104
  • Media (mee´ di ah), 100
  • Medina (meh dee´ nah), 243, 244
  • Meditations, 212
  • Mediterranean Sea, 21, 22
  • Menelaus (men ee lay´ us), 65, 66
  • Menes (men eez), 28
  • Merchant of Venice, The, 383
  • Mercury, 58, 61
  • Merry Monarch (Charles II), 393
  • Mesopotamia (mes o po tay´ mi ah), 21, 42, 44, 95
  • Messiah, The (oratorio), 439
  • Methodists, 304, 365
  • Mexico, 355 to 357
  • Michelangelo (migh kell an jee loh), 360 to 366
  • Middle Ages, 304, 335, 336
  • Miltiades (mill tigh´ a deez), 128
  • Minerva, 59, 60, 65
  • Mississippi, 355
  • Mohammed (mo ham´ ed), 242 to 245, 247
  • Mohammedans, 245, etc.
  • Moloch (moh´ lock), 76
  • Mona Lisa (moh’ nah lee’ zah), 364
  • Mongols (mon´ golz), 316, 402
  • Montezuma (mon tee zoo´ mah), 356
  • Morse, 456
  • Moscow (mos´ koh), 405, 432
  • Moses, 52, 154, 360
  • Moslems, 247 to 257
  • Mount Ararat (ar´ a rat), 43, 321
  • Mount of Olives, 216
  • Mount Olympus (o lim´ pus), 57, 64
  • Mount Parnassus (par nas´ us), 62
  • Mount Sinai (sigh´ nigh), 54
  • Mozart (mo´ tzart), 440 to 442
  • Muezzin (moo ez´ in), 246
  • Muses (mewz´ ez), 61
  • Napoleon Bonaparte (na poh´ le on bon´ na part), 428 to 434
  • Napoleon, Louis, 449
  • Napoleon III, 449
  • National Assembly, 422, 423, 424
  • Nebuchadnezzar (neb oo kad nez´ ar), 99 to 103, 261
  • Nelson, Lord, 430, 431
  • Neptune, 57, 61
  • Nero, 203 to 205, 211
  • New Forest, 290
  • Nightingale, Florence, 444, 445
  • Nicæa (nigh see´ ah), 217
  • Nicene Creed (nigh´ seen), 218
  • Nile, 22, 27, 28
  • Niña (nee´ nah), 340
  • Nineveh (nin´ eh veh), 94 to 100, 168
  • Noah’s Ark, 48, 321
  • Normandy, 286, 287
  • Normans, 286, 288
  • Norsemen, 270, 284, 286, 357
  • North America, 340 to 344, 350
  • Notre Dame (nohtr dam), 309, 426
  • Oberammergau (oh ber am´ er gow), 397
  • Octavius (ock tay´ vi us), 192, 193
  • Odysseus (o dis´e us), 68, 90
  • Odyssey (od´ ih sih), 68
  • Olympia (o lim´ pi ah), 84, 85, 101, 147
  • Olympiad (o lim´ pi ad), 87, 89
  • Olympic games, 86 to 88
  • Orpheus (or´ fe us), 436
  • Omar (oh´ mar), 247, 248
  • Osiris (o sigh´ ris), 34
  • Ostracism (os´ tra sism), 117, 118
  • Oxford, 267
  • Palestine (pal´ es tighm), 216
  • Palestrina (pah les tree´ nah), 337, 442
  • Palos, 340
  • Pan, 436
  • Pantheon (pan’ the on), 194
  • Pariah (pay’ rih a), 110
  • Paris (the city), 234
  • Paris (the man), 65
  • Parliament, 386, etc.
  • Parthenon (pahr the non), 145 to 148, 194
  • Pass of Thermopylæ (ther mop’ ih lee), 140
  • Passion Play, 397
  • Peking, 318
  • Peloponnesian War (pellv oh poh nee´ shan), 153, 156
  • Peloponnesus (pell oh poh neev sus), 152
  • Pericles, Age of (per´ i klees), 144, 147, 149, 150
  • Perry, Commodore, 446
  • Pershing, General, 464
  • Persia, 124, etc.
  • Persian Bible, 104
  • Persian Gulf, 21, 22
  • Peru, 359
  • Peter the Great, 402 to 406
  • Peter the Hermit, 293, 295
  • Petrograd, 405
  • Pharaoh (fay´ roh), 33, 39, 52
  • Pharos (fay´ ros), 164
  • Pheidippides (figh dip´ ih dees), 127, 129
  • Phenicia (fee nish´ ih a), 95
  • Phenicians (fee nish´ ans), 74 to 78, 170, 171
  • Phidias (fid´ ih as), 146, 147, 154, 359
  • Philip, 156 to 159
  • Philip II, 369, 373 to 375
  • Philip of France, 297 to 299
  • Philippics (fih lip´ icks), 158
  • Philippine Islands, 352
  • Pilate, 198, 199
  • Pillars of Hercules, 77
  • Pinta (pin´ ta), 340
  • Pisistratus (pi sis´ tra tus), 115, 116
  • Pizarro (pi zair´ oh), 357
  • Plato, 161, 166, 211
  • Pluto, 61
  • Polo, 318 to 320
  • Pompeii (pom pay´ yee), 207, 208
  • Pompey (pom´ pih), 186 to 188
  • Ponce de León (pon thee dee lee´ on), 354
  • Portugal, 338, 339, 350, 351, 466
  • Portuguese (por´ chew geese´), 348
  • Poseidon (poh sigh´ don), 57
  • Priam (prigh´ am), 65
  • Primitive Men, 13, 93
  • Primitive People, 16, 17
  • Protector, 393
  • Protestants, 368, 372, 373, 374, 395 to 397
  • Protestantism, 373
  • Prussia, 407 to 409, 431, 450, 451
  • Prussians, 450
  • Ptolemy I (tol’ ih mih), 167
  • Punic War (pew´ nick), 171, 172, 175, 182
  • Raleigh, Sir Walter, 378, 379, 380
  • Rameses (ram´ ih sees), 23, 52, 53
  • Raphael (raff´ ay ell), 362 to 366
  • Red Sea, 21, 54, 301
  • Red Shirt, Hero of, 452
  • Reformation (reff or may´ shun), 368
  • Reign of Terror, 425, 427
  • Remus (ree´ mus), 90, 91, 196
  • Renaissance (ren ay sahns´), 359, 360, 453
  • Revolution, 428
  • Richard of England (Richard the Lion-hearted), 297 to 301, 311
  • Richelieu (rish´ ih lew), 395, 397
  • Roanoke (roh´ a nohke), 379, 387
  • Robespierre (rob´ bes pyer), 425, 427
  • Robin Hood, 301
  • Rollo, 284, 286
  • Roma, 92
  • Roman Aqueduct (ack´ we duct), 179
  • Roman Catholics, 368
  • Roman Senate, 186, 189, 216
  • Rome, 89, etc.
  • Romeo and Juliet, 383
  • Romulus (rom´ yew lus), 90, 92, 93, 196
  • Romulus Augustulus (a gus´ tew lus), 228
  • Rosetta Stone (roh zet´ a), 32, 33
  • Roxana (rocks an´ a), 167
  • Rubicon (rew´ bih kon), 187
  • Runnymede (run´ ih meed), 313
  • Russia, 402 to 406
  • Sabines (say´ bighns), 92
  • Sahara (sa hah´ rah), 28
  • St. Helena (hell´ ee nah), 217, 434
  • St. John, 437
  • St. Louis, 302
  • St. Paul, 201 to 203
  • St. Peter, 201, 203, 217, 218
  • St. Petersburg, 405
  • St. Simeon Stylites (sim´ ee on stigh ligh´ tees), 236
  • Saladin, 300
  • Salamis, Bay of (sal´ ah mis), 140, 141, 151
  • Samuel, 55
  • San Salvador, 343
  • Santa Maria, 340
  • Santa Sophia, 232, 336
  • Saracens (sair´ ah sens), 248, 249
  • Saracenic Empire (sair ah sen´ ick), 243
  • Saratoga, 417, 418
  • Sargon I (sahr´ gon), 48
  • Saturn, 222
  • Saul, King, 55, 70
  • Saul (Paul), apostle, 200
  • Saxons, 223
  • Schwarz, 325
  • Scipio (sip´ ih oh), 175, 182
  • Scotland, 374 to 376, 385
  • Scots, 385
  • Semites (sem´ ights), 23, 52, 56, 76
  • Seneca (sen´ e kah), 203
  • Sennacherib (se nack´ e rib), 96, 97
  • Serbia, 460, 461
  • Seven-League Boots, 89
  • Seven Wonders of the World, 101, 147, 164
  • Seven Years’ War, 410, 417
  • Shakspere, William, 190, 380 to 383
  • Sheba, 72
  • Sicily, 170
  • Sidon (sigh´ don), 77
  • Sistine Chapel (sis´ teen), 361, 362
  • Sistine Madonna, 363, 364
  • Slavs, 402
  • Smith, Captain John, 388
  • Snow King, 396
  • Socrates (sock´ ray tees), 153 to 155, 161
  • Solomon, 71 to 73, 76, 101, 103, 104
  • Solon (soh´ lon), 115, 116
  • South Sea, 350, 351
  • Spain, 169, 339, etc.
  • Spanish Armada, 375, 376
  • Sparta, 79, 82, 83, 126 to 129, 134, 151, 152, 153
  • Sphinx, 39
  • Stephen, 301
  • Stephenson, 200
  • Stoic (stoh´ ick), 210 to 213, 236
  • Stone Age, The, 11, 14, 17
  • Strait of Gibraltar, 77, 248
  • Straits of Magellan, 351
  • Stratford, 381, 383
  • Stuarts, 385, etc.
  • Sweden, 396, 404
  • Tarquin (tahr´ kwin), 119 to 121, 189
  • Tartars (tah´ tahr), 316, 317
  • Ten Commandments, 54, 55, 113
  • Tennyson, Lord, 235, 445
  • Terrorists, 426
  • Teutons, 220 to 236
  • Thames River (temz), 289, 313
  • Themistocles (thee mis´ to klees), 133, 134, 140 to 142
  • Thermopylae (ther mop´ ih lee), 137, 140
  • Thirty Years’ War, 395, 396, 397
  • Thor, 222, 230, 233
  • Tiber River, 90, 91
  • Tigris River (tigh gris), 21, 22
  • Titus (tigh´ tus), 206 to 208
  • Tiu (tih´ ew), 222
  • Toledo, 254
  • Tours (toor), 243, 249, 250, 257
  • Tower of Babel (bay´ bel), 44, 45, 108
  • Tower of London, 289, 380
  • Trafalgar (trah fal´ gar), 431
  • Travels of Marco Polo, 320, 338
  • Treaty of Westphalia (west fay´ lia), 396
  • Trojan War, 64, 67, 234
  • Trojans, 66, 67
  • Troy, 65 to 67, 90, 104
  • Tudors, 385, 386
  • Turkish, 336
  • Turks, 293, 335, 465
  • Tu-tank-amen (too tank a´ men), 36
  • Twenty-third Psalm, 71
  • Tyre (tihr), 77, 170
  • Ultima Thule (ul´ tih mah thew lee), 20
  • Ulysses (yew liss´ ees), 68
  • United States, 413, etc.
  • Ur (er), 49, 55
  • Urban (er´ ban), 293
  • Valhalla (val hal´ lah), 222
  • Vandals (van´ dalz), 223, 224
  • Venetians, 318
  • Venice, 318, 319
  • Venus, 60, 61, 65, 154
  • Vergil, 90, 196
  • Versailles (ver´ sah´ ye), 399, 423, 451, 465
  • Vesta, 61
  • Vesuvius (vee soo’ vihus), 207, 208
  • Victor Emmanuel, 452
  • Victoria, 352, 443
  • Victorian Age, 443
  • Vikings, 270, 271
  • Vineland, 271
  • Virgin Queen, 374, 379
  • Virginia, 379, 387
  • Vulcan, 58, 60, 207
  • Wagner (vahg’ ner), 441, 442
  • Walter the Penniless, 295
  • Washington, George, 412, 415 to 419, 422
  • Waterloo (waw ter lew´), 433
  • Watt, James, 455, 456
  • Wellington, 434
  • Western Empire, 231
  • Westminster Abbey, 439
  • William the Conqueror, 286, 290
  • William and Mary, 394
  • William of Prussia, King, 450, 451, 461
  • William the Silent, 374
  • Wise Men of the East, 161
  • Wise Men of Greece, 161
  • Woden (woh´ den), 221, 222
  • World War, 465, 469
  • Worms (vohrms), 367
  • Wright, 458
  • Xantippe (zan tip´ e), 154
  • Xerxes (zerks´ eez), 132, etc., 140 to 143.
  • Yorktown, 418
  • Zama (zay´ mah), 175
  • Zeno (zee´ noh), 211, 212, 213
  • Zeus (zews), 57, 84
  • Zoroaster (zoh roh as´ ter), 103, 104