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Index
Aarhus, 92
Abbasid Caliphs, 150–1
Ablabius, minister of Constantine I, 38
Abrittus, battle of 8, 18, 23
Abu Said, ‘Ilkhan’ (Persia), 155
Achaemenid dynasty (Persia), 22, 56
Adrianople, battle of, xiv, 25, 30–1, 40, 43, 53–4, 70
Adriatic Sea, xi
Aedan/Aidan, St., 93
Aegean Sea, 22, 56
Aegidius, 72, 75, 86, 103
Aelle, king of Northumbria, 109
Aelius Verus, 9, 67
Aemilianus, Emperor, 18
Aetius, xiv, 26–7, 39, 48–49, 51, 72, 74–5, 86, 102–3, 136–8
Africa, 20, 40, 49, 51, 57, 71, 75, 102, 136, 150; West, 116
Africans, 16
Agricola, Cnaeus Julius, 95
agricultural workers, 42
Agrippa, Marcus, xii
Agrippa Postumus, 57
Agrippina ‘the Younger’, 67
Ailech (Ulster), 95
Aillel, 5th-century Irish ‘High King’, 95
Ain Jalut, battle of, 153
Alans, 31, 145,
Alaric the Goth, xiv, 26–9, 31, 39, 45, 47, 49, 50, 53, 65, 71, 94, 120–1
Albinus, Clodius 10–11, 68
Alemanni, 7, 40, 45
Aleppo, 151
Alexander the Great, x, 19, 58, 154
Alexander Severus (Alexianus), Emperor, 16, 18–21, 57, 68
Alexandria, 36, 114, 118, 121, 133, 150;
‘Great Library’ of, 132–3; patriarchate of, 121–2, 127–8; Temple of Serapis at 121, 133
Alfred ‘the Great’, 105, 110
Al-Mansur, Caliph, 151
Al-Mutasim, Caliph, 151
Alps, 28, 103
Ambrose, St., 98, 128
Ambrosius Aurelianus, 83–4, 86–9
America and Rome: exploration and North 109–12, 115–18; Central 112–15; Viking wars in? 115–18
Ammianus Marcellinus, 29, 46, 84
Amyntas II (Macedon), x
Anastasius, Emperor, 73; ‘Long Wall’ of, 137, 139
Anchialus, 139
Angles, 89–90, 96
Anglo-Saxons, 33, 85, 96–7, 104–106, 109–10
‘Anglo-Saxon Chronicle’ (book), 110
Anthemius, Emperor, 47–8, 75
Antilles, Greater, 112–13
Antioch, 29, 69, 77, 144; patriarchate of, 122, 127
Antonius, Marcus, xii, 4, 61, 67
Apostles, 127
Aquitaine, 26–8, 50, 73
Arabs, 23, 107, 123, 139, 143–50
Arcadius, Emperor, 39, 49–50, 65
Areobindus, 75
Argyll, 96
Arianism, 35–6, 75, 89, 98, 100, 127–8, 132
Arius, 36, 127
Armenia, 30, 40, 114, 137, 145, 149, 152, 155
Arminius, 5, 58
Armorica, see also Brittany, 81–3
Artemis, 22
‘Arthur, King’, 83–4, 86–8, 92
Asia, x
Asia Minor, 23, 25, 143, 148–9
Aspar, commander-in-chief of Empire, 34, 71, 75
Athabascans, 110
Athanaric (Goth), 30, 45
Athanasius, St., Patriarch of Alexandria, 36, 127
Athaulf (Goth), 7, 103
Athena, statue by Phidaeus of, 133
Athens, 22, 120; Parthenon in, 133; university of, 123–4
Atlantic Ocean, 110
Atlantis, 112
Atrebates tribe, 85
Attalus, ‘Emperor’ (puppet of Alaric), 27, 32
Attila the Hun, xv, 25–6, 28–30, 32, 39, 46, 48, 71–2, 77, 81–2, 94, 102–3, 125, 137, 139, 149, 153; sons of, 137, 139
Augustine of Hippo, St., 32, 129
‘Augustus’, title of, xiii, 40, 155
Augustus (Octavian), xii, 4, 6, 12, 57–8, 61–2, 64, 66, 68
Aurelian, Emperor, 23, 35, 38, 56, 62, 69, 72, 135, 146
Aurelius ‘Caninus’/Conan, ruler of Gloucester(?), 89
Austrasia, 90
Auvergne, 75
Avars, 25, 76–7, 138–40, 144–5, 150
Avitus, Emperor, 27–8, 32
Axum, 114, 147
Azerbaijan, 153
Aztecs, and Rome?, 112–15
Aztlan, original home of Aztecs, 112
‘Bacaudae’ 27, 72
Badon, Mount, battle of, 88
Baghdad, 151–3
Balbinus, Emperor, 16–17
Balkans, 22, 25–6, 49, 53, 72, 101, 137–41, 143, 146, 149–51
Bantham, 87
Basil II, Emperor, 151
Basiliscus, Emperor, 74–5
Barberini dynasty (Rome), 101
Batavian Island, (Rhine), 4, 7
Batu, Mongol ruler of ‘Golden Horde’, 125
Bayezid II, Ottoman Sultan, 65
Bede, the Venerable, 93, 97
Belgae tribe (Britain), 85
Belgica, 7, 59, 86, 90
Belgium, 46
Belisarius, 74, 76–7, 137
Benedict, St., 102
Beowulf, legendary Swedish king, 91
Berbers, 148, 150
Beskids, 8, 60
Bethlehem, 32
Bible, The, 127; Acts of Apostles, 127;
Gospels, the four ‘accepted’, 127; New
Testament, 127
Bithynia, 63
Boethius, 101
Bohemia, xv, 7–8, 11, 31, 44–5, 135–6
Boniface, Count, 51, 74
Boniface, St., 97, 114
Bosphorus, 22, 25, 47, 63
Boulogne/Gesoriacum, 104
‘Black Death’, 117
Black Sea, 18, 22, 141, 145
Boudicca, 59
Brancaster fortress, 84
Bremen, 92
Brendan the Navigator, St., 112
Brigantes tribe, 59
Britain, 3–4, 6, 10, 26, 31, 33, 48, 50–2, 56, 68, 74, 81–9, 92, 94–5, 97, 104–6, 109, 111, 114–17, 125, 132, 154, navy of 110
Britannicus, son of Claudius, 64, 66–7
British Empire, 155
Brutus, Marcus, Junius, xii, 61
‘Buccellarii’ (bodyguards), 137
Buddha, giant statues of at Bamiyan, 121
Buddhism, x
Bulgars, Bulgaria, 46, 114, 149, 151
Bulgars, Kutrigur, 25, 137, 150
Bulgars, Utrigur, 25
Burgundians, 72
Buyid dynasty (Persia), 151–2
‘Byzantine Commonwealth’, 114
‘Byzantine Empire’, 74, 124–5, 152;
terminology/use of name 47; cities of, 120
Cadiz, 47
Caernarfon, 83
‘Caesar’, title of, xiii, 20, 23, 40, 64, 140, 155
Caesar, Julius, xii, xiv, 4, 58–61, 64, 66, 115, 132, 147
Caesarea-in-Cappadocia, 143
Cairo, 16
Caledonia, Caledonians, 12, 154
Caligula (Caius)
, Emperor, xiii, 12–13, 63–4, 66
Caliphs, (Ummayad/Abbasid), 145, 147–52
Callinicus, chamberlain of Justinian, 140
Canada, 111–12, 116–18
Canary Islands, 112
Cannae, xi
Cape Cod, 111
Cappadocia, 143
Caracalla, Emperor, 13–15, 17–19, 57, 133
Carausius, rebel Emperor, 82, 91, 110
Caribbean Sea, 112, 116
Caribs, 113
Carolingian dynasty (Franks), 100, 104
Carpathian Mountains, xv, 7–8, 58, 60, 135–6, 139
Carpi, 30, 55
Carrhae, battle of, xiv, 143, 147, 152
Carthage, x– xi, 26, 74, 142, 148, 150
Cartimandua, queen of the Brigantes, 59
Carus, Emperor, 23, 62, 147
Cashel, 95
Cassiodorus, 101
Cassius, assassin of Caesar, xii, 61, 147
Catholic Church, 36, 73, 89, 95–6, 99–101, 107, 111–12, 114–15, 119–20, 122, 126–8, 131–2, 147;theology of 35, 98, 126–8
Cato ‘the Younger’, xii
Catraeth, battle of, 96
Catwallaun, king of Gwynedd, 88
Caucasus Mountains, 26, 143–5, 153–4
Celer, minister of Anastasius, 73
‘Celts’, ‘Celtic’, 6, 85, 105
Celtic Church, 93
Cernjachov culture, 44
Cerularius, Patriarch Michael of
Constantinople, 131
Chalcedon, 143
Chalons, battle of, 72
Chariot-racing, and politics, 121–2
Charles/Charlemagne (Frank), 90, 97, 104, 110, 114
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 131
Chatti, 7
Chersonese, the (Gallipoli), 137
Childeric (Frank), 90
China, x, 35, 117–18, 125–6, 153, 155;
government of (Han) 61–2; T’ang, 65
Chosroes I ‘Anushirvan’ (Persia), 123, 142
Chosroes II (Persia), 141–6, 151
Christian Church, xiv, 42, 93, 95
Christian sects and ‘heretics’, 42
Christianization, of Germans, 89; of
Scandinavians, 91; of American natives, 114–15; of Balkans, 141
Christianity, xiii, 35–6
Chrysaphius, chamberlain to Theodosius II, 29–30, 39
Cicero, Marcus Tullius, xii
Cilicia, 33, 151
Cimbri, 5, 154
Civilis, Julius, 4, 7, 59–60
‘Classis Britanniae’ (British fleet), 89–91
Claudian, poet, 49
Claudius, Emperor, 4, 58, 64, 66–7
Claudius II, Emperor, 23, 38, 62, 72
Cleander, minister of Commodus, 8, 38, 67
Cleitus, x
Climate change debate, 110
Clovis (Frank), 36, 46, 86, 90, 103
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