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Index 419 Commumsm (and Communists), 355, 356, 396 Gomnenus, Alexius. (See Alexius) Comparative anatomy, science of, 23. (Cf. Anatomy) Concord, Mass., 320 Confederated States of America, 365 Confucius, 127, 160 et seq., 164, 408 Congo, 377 Conifers, 25, 35 Constance, Council of, 272, 288, 411 Constantine the Great, 178, 216, 218, 219, 231, 407, 409 Constantinople, 219, 228, 229, 231, 242, 247, 252, 258 ei seg., 260, 269, 278, 285, 305, 310, 409, 410, 411. (See also Byzantium) Consuls, Roman, 184 Copper, 72, 78, 99, 342, 375 Cordoba, 244 Corinth, 124 Cornwallis, General, 321 Corsets, 91 Corsica, 174, 177, 272 Cortez, 297 Cossacks, 316-317 Cotton fabrics, 99 Couvade, the, 67 Crabs, 22 Crassus, 184, 185, 189 Creation of the world, story of, 1, 113 Creed religions, 230 Cretan script, 92 Crete, 90, 106 Crimea, 398 Crimean War, 370, 413 Crocodiles, 26, 27 Croesus, 109, 407 Cro-Magnon race, 49, 52, 63 Cromwell, Oliver, 412 Cronstadt, 398 Crucifixion, 195 Crusades, 255 et seq., 268, 288-9, 410, 411 Crustacea, 12 Ctesiphon, 233 Cuba, 373 Cultivation, the beginnings ol, 65 et seq. (See also Civilization) Culture, Heliolithic, 67 Culture, Japanese, 382 Cuneiform, 76 Currents, 17 Cyaxares, 107, 407 Cycads, 25, 35 Cvrus the Persian, 109, 112, 116, 119, 128, 407, 408 Czech language, 226 Czecho-Slovaks, 334 Czechs, 288 D Dacia, 166, 191, 194, 217, 226 Dsedalus, 92 Dalmatia, 409 Damascus, 233, 242, 409 Danes, 312, 313 Danube, 129, 191, 217, 409 Dardanelles, 130, 141, 276 Darius I, 110, 128, 129, 130, 408 Darius III, 141, 142, 408 Darlington, 338, 413 David, King, 115, 407 Da Vinci, Leonardo, 338 Davis, Jeflerson, 365, 368 Dawn Man. (See Eoanthropus) Dead, burning the, 102 ; burial of (see Burial) Debtors' prisons, 319 Deciduous trees, 35 Decius, Emperor, 191, 409 Declaration of Independence, 321, 412 Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Gibbon's), 274-5 Deer, 40, 54 Defender of the Faith, title of, 297 Defoe, Daniel, 346 Delhi, 276, 411 Democracy, 125, 126, 258 Deniken, General, 398 Denmark, 290, 297, 374, 410 Deshima, 381 Devonian system, 18 Diaz, 411 Dictator, Roman, 185 Dillon, Dr., 402 Dinosaurs, 27, 30, 35 Diocletian, Emperor, 214, 216, 217 Dionysius, 162 Diplodocus Carnegii, measurement of, 27 Diseases,1nfectious, 358 Ditchwater, animal and plant life in, 12 Dogs, 40 Domazlice, battle of, 289 Dominic, St., 263 Dominican Order, 263, 272, 380 Dorian Greeks, 106, 124 Douglas, Senator, 366 Dover, Straits of, 184 Dragon flies, 22 Drama, Greek, 133 Dravidian civilization, 105 Dravidians, 69 Duck-billed platypus, 32 Duma, the, 375 Durazzo, 256 Dutch, 312, 314, 315, 379 Dutch Guiana, 374 Dutch RepubUc, 333 Dyeing, 53