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- Melos
- 168, 174, 197.
- Melqart
- 108.
- Melupré
- 1407.
- Melville, Herman, writer
- 1563, 1582.
- Melville Island
- 1488.
- Memel
- 460, 460, 482, 550, 1784, 1794, 1827, 1837, 1992, 2089, 2089, 2091, 2092, 2093, 2094, 2124; Statute, 2089, 2091.
- Memling, Hans, Dutch artist
- 596.
- Memnon of Rhodes, Persian commander
- 206, 206.
- Memphis, Egypt
- 87, 89, 90, 91, 91, 92, 93, 93, 93, 95, 95, 95, 99, 110, 192, 192, 1594, 3415.
- Memphis, Tennessee
- 3390.
- Menaenum
- 191.
- Menahem, king of Israel
- 105.
- Menam River
- 1407.
- Menam Valley
- 330, 342.
- Menander, Greek playwright
- 186, 208.
- Menander, king of Bactria
- 217.
- Menander, warrior-philosopher
- 129, 129.
- Menchú, Rigoberta, writer
- 3655.
- Mencius, Chinese philosopher
- 142, 143, 144, 145, 854.
- Mendana de Neyra, Alvaro de, Spanish explorer
- 865, 865, 865.
- Mende
- 182.
- Mendel, Gregor, geneticist
- 1152, 1153, 1153, 3263.
- Mendeleev, Dmitri I., chemist
- 1152, 1260.
- Menderes, Adnan, Turkish leader
- 3788, 3790, 3792.
- Mendes
- 95.
- Mendes, Doña Gracia, aunt of Don Joseph Naxi
- 797.
- Mendès-France, Pierre, French leader
- 2714, 2847, 2847, 2848, 2992, 4256.
- Méndez, Aparicio, Uruguayan leader
- 3531.
- Méndez, Miguel Abadia, Colombian leader
- 2267.
- Méndez Montenegro, Julio César, Guatemalan leader
- 3652.
- Mendieta, Carlos, Cuban leader
- 2302, 2304, 2304, 2305.
- Mendoza, Chile
- 899, 1644, 1648.
- Mendoza, Antonio de, Spanish colonial administrator
- 899, 903, 903, 903.
- Mendoza, Pedro de, Spanish explorer
- 900, 900, 900, 900.
- Menelik I, emperor of Ethiopia
- 1220, 1222.
- Menelik II, emperor of Ethiopia
- 1506, 1523, 1523, 1523, 1523, 1523, 1523, 2561.
- Menem, Carlos Saúl, Argentine leader
- 3499, 3499, 3499, 3500, 3500, 3502, 3502, 3502, 3503, 3504, 3505.
- Menéndez, Andrés I., El Salvadorian leader
- 2281, 2282.
- Menéndez, Francisco, Latin American leader
- 1682.
- Menéndez de Avilés, Pedro, Spanish colonial administrator
- 905, 905.
- Menes, king of Egypt
- 43, 66, 91.
- Mengli Girai, khan of the Crimea
- 558.
- Mengzi, The Mencius
- 142.
- Menkaure, king of Egypt
- 91.
- Menocal, Mario García, Cuban leader
- 1693, 2303.
- Menon, V. K. Krishna, Indian leader
- 3964.
- Menou, Jacques François de, French soldier
- 1010.
- Mensheviks, Russian moderates
- 1262, 2064.
- Menshikov, Russian family
- 786.
- Mentana, battle of
- 1217.
- Menteshe Bey, Turkoman leader
- 305, 310, 312.
- Mentuhotep II, king of Egypt
- 92.
- Mentuhotep III, king of Egypt
- 92.
- Mentuhotep IV, king of Egypt
- 92.
- Menua, king of Urartu
- 118.
- Menzies, Robert G.
- 2549, 4295, 4298, 4299, 4300, 4301, 4303.
- Meos
- 4098, 4099.
- Mera, Martínez, Ecuadorian leader
- 2264.
- mercantilism
- 645, 711, 757, 761, 763, 939, 1053; France, 707; Switzerland, 748.
- Mercator, Isidorus
- 466.
- mercenaries
- 1226, 1417.
- Mercenary War
- 230.
- merchandising
- 1589, 1589, 1597, 1599, 1602.
- Merchant Marine Acts
- 2191, 3421.
- Mercia
- 421, 422, 422.
- Mercier, Honoré, Canadian leader
- 1635.
- Mercury
- 3408.
- Mercy, Franz von, Austrian general
- 622.
- Merenre I, king of Egypt
- 91.
- Merenre II, king of Egypt
- 91.
- Merezhkovsky, Dmitri, writer
- 1258.
- Mergenthaler, Ottmar, inventor of Linotype press
- 985.
- Mergentheim, battle of
- 622.
- Mergui
- 1402.
- Meri, Lennart, Estonian leader
- 3321, 3321, 3323.
- Merici of Brescia, Angela, founder of the Ursulines
- 609.
- Merida
- 419, 823, 2293.
- Merina, Madagascar
- 366, 893, 4492.
- Merina people
- 1561, 1562, 1562.
- Merkel, Angela, German leader
- 3027.
- Mermnadae, Lydian dynasty
- 114.
- Merneith, queen of Egypt
- 91.
- Merneptah, king of Egypt
- 93.
- Merneptah Stele
- 93, 104.
- Merodach-Baladan II, king of Babylon and the Chaldeans
- 87, 87, 87, 122.
- Meroë, Nubia
- 43, 43, 45, 74, 74, 96, 97, 99, 99, 99, 124, 346.
- Merovingians
- 405, 407, 407, 407, 407, 407, 407, 407.
- Merowech, Merovingian leader
- 407.
- Merrimac, Confederate ironclad
- 1587, 1587.
- Merrimac River
- 1572.
- Mersa Matruh
- 2611.
- Merseburg
- 416.
- Mers-el-Kebir, battle of
- 2586, 2605.
- Mersen, treaty of
- 415, 595.
- Mersin
- 1750.
- Merton College, Oxford
- 446, 513.
- Merv
- 271, 272, 275, 289, 812, 1261.
- Mesa Verde
- 40.
- Mesembria
- 440, 440.
- Mesene
- 272.
- Meshal, Khaled, Palestinian leader
- 3867.
- Meshan, Kuwait
- 271.
- Meshech
- See Mushki.
- Meshkov, Yuri A., Crimean leader
- 3383.
- Mesic, Stipe, Croatian leader
- 3192.
- Mesic, Stjepan, Balkan leader
- 3176, 3177.
- Mesilim of Lagash
- 84.
- Meskalamdug, Sumerian king
- 84.
- Mesoamerica
- 53, 54, 54, 54, 55, 63, 65, 65, 65, 276, 280, 281.
- Mesolithic period
- 14, 31.
- Mesopotamia
- 1, 4, 4, 35, 36, 39, 41, 42, 42, 43, 62, 62, 66, 67, 67, 70, 81, 82, 83, 83, 83, 83, 84, 84, 84, 84, 85, 85, 85, 86, 86, 86, 86, 86, 87, 87, 88, 88, 91, 101, 102, 103, 104, 106, 108, 112, 113, 116, 121, 122, 122, 122, 124, 125, 206, 213, 214, 216, 245, 253, 255, 255, 256, 261, 264, 271, 271, 272, 272, 272, 272, 272, 273, 273, 274, 274, 275, 275, 287, 318, 334, 428, 429, 438, 2432, 2432, 2462; WWI, 1780, 1788.
- Mesozoic Era
- 1042.
- Hajj, Messali al-, Algerian leader
- 2423, 2424, 3925.
- Messalina, wife of Claudius
- 248.
- Messana
- 191, 196, 220, 220, 230.
- Messapii
- 184.
- Messene
- 168, 202, 210, 211.
- Messenia
- 174, 178, 179, 191, 202, 202, 211.
- Messenian Wars
- 178, 179, 191.
- Messiah
- 250; by Handel, 687.
- messianism
- 803.
- Messina
- 498, 1224, 2617.
- Messmer, Pierre, French leader
- 2863, 4081.
- Messmer Plan
- 2865.
- Messner, Zbigniew, Polish leader
- 3107, 3108, 3109.
- Mesta
- 1139.
- mestilços
- 918.
- mestizos
- 908, 908, 908, 909, 911, 911, 912, 913, 1653, 1670; Philippines, 1480, 1480, 1481.
- Meta, Ilir, Albanian leader
- 3206.
- Metacom, chief of the Wampanoags
- 933.
- metallurgy
- 14, 46, 46, 46, 58, 59, 62, 83, 637, 643, 984, 984, 1041.
- metaphysics
- 1146.
- Metaxas, Johannes (John), Greek Fascist leader
- 1704, 2155, 2155, 2156.
- Metaxas, Nicodemus, Greek printer in Istanbul
- 801.
- Metcalfe, Charles
- 1395.
- Metellus, Quintus Caecilius, Roman consul and general
- 234, 234, 235, 235.
- Metellus Scipio, Roman consul
- 241.
- Methodism
- 646, 687, 687, 688, 692.
- Methodists
- 1514, 1545; in U.S., 1563, 1565.
- Methodius, St., missionary to Slavs
- 409, 434, 440, 483, 483.
- Methone
- 182.
- Methuen-Alegrete agreement, between Britain and Portugal
- 728.
- Métis
- 1630, 1634; rebellion of, 1630.
- metric system
- 1008, 4306.
- Metropolitan Police Act, England
- 1047.
- Metternich, (later prince) Klemens von
- 1021, 1030, 1032, 1045, 1045, 1066, 1071, 1071, 1071, 1072, 1073, 1073, 1073, 1095, 1272, 1272.
- “Metternich System”
- 1071.
- Metz
- 402, 407, 411, 615, 624, 707, 713, 1185, 1185, 1738, 1781.
- Metz, Shirley, polar explorer
- 998.
- Meucci, Antonio, experimenter
- 990.
- Meuse River
- 407, 411, 425, 1789, 1800, 1801, 1888, 2585, 2620.
- Meuse-Argonne" ID="A000057, battle of the
- 1812, 2189.
- Mevlevi, Sufi order
- 305, 806, 810, 1333.
- Mexican Americans
- See Hispanic Americans.
- Mexican-American War
- 1563.
- Mexican Food System, SAM
- 3704.
- Mexican Petroleum Law, U.S.
- 2195, 2196.
- Mexican Revolution
- 957.
- Mexican War
- 1578, 1579, 1688.
- Mexicas
- 4, 570, 570, 570, 570, 901, 901, 901, 901.
- Mexico
- 4, 8, 35, 40, 40, 41, 54, 55, 63, 280, 281, 570, 570, 584, 601, 602, 865, 901, 902, 905, 908, 909, 911, 911, 911, 911, 912, 912, 954, 957, 961, 1100, 1199, 1610, 1615, 1619, 1653, 1655, 1655, 1655, 1655, 1655, 1687, 2072, 2238, 2241, 2241, 2273, 2284, 2285, 2290, 2316, 2640, 2642, 2643, 2643, 2665, 2681, 3465, 3471, 3475, 3475, 3652, 3661, 3674, 3700, 3701, 3701, 3703, 3703, 3703, 3704, 3704, 3704, 3704, 3705, 3705, 3708, 3708, 3709, 3709, 3711, 3712, 3712, 3714, 3714, 3719; and Philippines, 867; and France, 1182; and Japan, 1455; independence of, 1480, 1653; war with U.S., 1578, 1579; and U.S., 1578, 1580, 1621, 1621, 2195, 2196, 2196, 2602, 2603, 3396, 3430, 3431, 3433, 3433, 3701, 3701, 3702, 3705, 3707, 3709, 3709, 3711, 3712; boundary with U.S., 1579; and Mexican War, 1690; WWI, 1770, 2294, 2294, 2294; before WWI, 2290, 2290; between Wars, 2296, 2297, 2297, 2298, 2298, 2298, 2299, 2299, 2299, 2299, 2299, 2300; WWII, 2300, 2300; and North America, 3458; student unrest, 3702, 3702, 3703.
- Mexico City
- 901, 903, 909, 910, 912, 1182, 1578, 1653, 1689, 1691, 2240, 2259, 2290, 2291, 2292, 2292, 2292, 2293, 2296, 2600, 2603, 2643, 2665, 2680, 2688, 3465, 3466, 3671, 3701, 3702, 3703, 3708, 3710, 3711.
- Mexico state, Mexico
- 3710.
- Mézières
- 1738.
- Mezö Kerésztés, battle of
- 798.
- Mfansibili, prince of Swaziland
- 4491.
- Mfecane, African cycle
- 1506, 1506, 1546, 1550, 1551, 1551.
- Mgijima, Enoch, sect leader
- 2577.
- MGR, actor
- 3957.
- Miaja, José, Spanish leader
- 1932.
- Miami
- 3404, 3415, 3436, 3753.
- Miao Quansun, Chinese scholar
- 1425.
- Michael, brother of Nicholas II, tsar
- 2064.
- Michael, king of Poland
- 777, 777, 778.
- Michael I, Rhangabé
- 433.
- Michael II, Balbus
- 434.
- Michael II, ruler of Epirus
- 510, 510, 564, 564.
- Michael III, Byzantine emperor
- 434, 435, 435, 435, 483.
- Michael IV, the Paphlagonian
- 498, 498.
- Michael V, king of Romania
- 2179, 2180, 2185, 2186, 3245, 3246.
- Michael VII, Parapinakes
- 500, 500.
- Michael VIII, Paleologus
- 507, 510, 510, 510, 564, 564, 564, 564, 564, 565.
- Michael IX, Byzantine emperor
- 565.
- Michael Angelus Comnenus, ruler of Epirus
- 497, 508, 508, 509.
- Michaelis, George, German leader
- 1971.
- Michael Obrenovich, prince of Serbia
- 1285, 1286, 1286, 1286, 1287, 1288, 1288, 1299.
- Michael of Tver
- 558.
- Romanov, Michael, tsar of Russia
- 630, 631, 631.
- Michael Wisnowiecki, king of Poland
- 776.
- Michaux, Ernest, inventor of velocipede
- 989.
- Michel, Smarck, Haitian leader
- 3754.
- Buonarroti, Michelangelo, Italian artist
- 536, 607, 609, 609.
- Michelson, Albert, physicist
- 1148.
- Michigan, U.S. state
- 921, 2201, 3434.
- Michoacán
- 902, 2296, 2298, 3706.
- Mich'
 n, Korean leader
- 160.
- Michov, Nichola, Bulgarian leader
- 2173.
- Michurin, Ivan, geneticist
- 3263.
- Mickiewicz, Adam, writer
- 1267.
- Micmac Indians
- 1630.
- microblade technology
- 28, 28, 30.
- Micronesia
- 52, 864, 864, 864, 1477, 2530, 4283, 4285; Federated States, 4284.
- microorganisms
- 1152, 1153.
- microscope
- 638, 640.
- Microsoft Corporation
- 3437, 3439, 3441.
- Micu, Samuel, writer
- 1311.
- M.I.C.U.M, mission interalliée de contrôle des usines et des mines
- 1822.
- Midas, Phrygian king
- 114.
- Middle Ages
- 276, 400, 400, 401, 410.
- Middle Assyrian Empire
- 86.
- Middleburg
- 638.
- middle class
- 419; England, 589; Switzerland, 749; France, 1000, 1001, 1003; 1800–1914, 1034, 1037, 1142, 1142, 1143, 1143; Great Britain, 1047, 1047, 1049; Hungary, 1087; Italy, 1091; Germany, 1096; U.S., 1563.
- Middle Colonies
- 935.
- Middle Congo
- 1544.
- Middle East
- 67, 68, 68, 70, 70, 70, 70, 70, 77, 78, 80, 129, 171, 276, 278, 279, 279, 279, 281, 281, 281, 281, 281, 282, 282, 285, 285, 285, 285, 285, 285, 287, 287, 287, 287, 287, 290, 291, 294, 298, 299, 299, 299, 300, 300, 301, 301, 302, 303, 304, 305, 306, 307, 308, 313, 318, 319, 319, 322, 351, 505, 505, 507, 508, 523, 538, 575, 607, 792, 798, 805, 810, 810, 820, 830, 839, 841, 953, 955, 957, 959, 961, 962, 1105, 1114, 1120, 1134, 1327, 1327, 1327, 1327, 1328, 1329, 1335, 1336, 1337, 1356, 1357, 1376, 1392, 1414, 1703, 1706, 1708, 1708, 1835, 2317, 2317, 2317, 2318, 2550, 2637, 2641, 2643, 2644, 2651, 2655, 2671, 2675, 2675, 2676, 2874, 2960, 3228, 3390, 3768, 3768, 3768, 3771, 3774, 3774, 3779, 3787, 3857, 3867, 3869, 3869, 3876, 4241; postclassical period, 276, 277; 1500–1800, 791, 791, 791, 791, 791, 791, 792; and European trade, 1331; WWI, 1748, 1751, 1751, 1752; WWII, 2317, 2553, 2614; Great Depression, 2317; first state plan, 2330; education, 2372; cold war, 2637; and U.S., 2637, 3771; post-WWII politics, 3768; post-WWII social change, 3768; post-WWII economic change, 3768.
- Middle-East Emergency Committee
- 3401.
- Middle Egypt
- 97, 1373.
- Middle Kingdom, Egypt
- 43, 66, 90, 92, 92, 103.
- Middle Passage
- 869.
- Middle Stone Age
- 14, 31.
- Middle West
- 1596.
- Midgley, Thomas, chemist
- 1732.
- Midhat Pasha, Turkish leader
- 1342, 1342.
- Midia
- 980, 1138.
- Midianites
- 104.
- Midlands
- 586.
- Midrar, Sam'un ibn Yazlan
- 292.
- Midrarid dynasty
- 292.
- Midway Island
- 2211, 2521, 2522, 2531, 2627, 4271.
- Midwest, U.S.
- 29, 33, 40, 53, 53, 1575, 2642.
- Mieszko I, king of Poland
- 486, 486.
- Mieszko II, king of Poland
- 486.
- Mieszko III, king of Poland
- 486, 487.
- Miettunen, Martti J., Finnish leader
- 3076.
- Mi Fei, Mi Fu
- 373.
- Migas, Jozef, Slovakian leader
- 3140.
- migration
- 67, 75; Puerto Rico, 3729.
- Miguel, king of Portugal
- 1064, 1064, 1064, 1064.
- Miguel, Dom
- See Miguel, king of Portugal.
- Miguelite Wars
- 1064, 1064.
- Mihailovich, Drazha, Yugoslavian leader
- 3165.
- Mihailovski, Stoyan, writer
- 1304.
- Mihira, Bhoja
- 325.
- Mihirakula, ruler of India
- 324.
- Mihr-Narseh, Persian minister
- 273.
- Mikawa
- 857.
- Mikhail, king of Serbia
- 494.
- Miki, Nakayama, religious leader
- 1438.
- Miklas, Wilhelm, Austrian leader
- 2003, 2005, 2011.
- Mikolajczyk, Stanislaw, Polish leader
- 3091, 3091, 3091.
- Mikoyan, Anastas I.
- 2995, 3272, 3404, 4235.
- Milan
- 257, 257, 260, 260, 261, 262, 265, 266, 268, 401, 408, 455, 457, 458, 467, 468, 469, 469, 523, 532, 532, 534, 534, 535, 535, 536, 536, 536, 537, 537, 537, 538, 538, 540, 546, 546, 597, 597, 597, 597, 602, 602, 602, 603, 607, 607, 607, 607, 607, 607, 607, 607, 607, 608, 612, 612, 612, 614, 615, 615, 615, 625, 657, 657, 659, 660, 738, 739, 742, 743, 744, 745, 746, 748, 1009, 1011, 1092, 1092, 1092, 1092, 1222, 1941, 1945, 1945, 1960, 2946.
- Milan I Obrenovich, prince of Serbia
- 1285.
- Milan II Obrenovich, prince and later king of Serbia
- 1110, 1288, 1288, 1288, 1289, 1290, 1290, 1291, 1291.
- Milazzo, battle of
- 1212.
- Mildenhall, John, English merchant in India
- 832.
- Miletus
- 114, 175, 176, 177, 177, 177, 177, 177, 177, 177, 182, 186, 187, 194, 213, 213, 218.
- Milford Haven
- 516.
- Milhaud, Darius, composer
- 1903.
- military
- 1232.
- Military College, Istanbul
- 1392.
- Military Directorate
- 2490.
- Military League, Bulgaria
- 2167, 2168.
- Military League, Greece
- 1280.
- Military Pensions Act
- 1867.
- Military School of the New Rising
- 2488.
- Miliukov, Paul, Russian leader
- 1263, 1756, 2064, 2064.
- Mill, James, political philosopher
- 1035, 1036.
- Mill, John Stuart, political economist
- 1143, 1425.
- millenarians
- 690.
- Millennium Summit
- 2698, 3869.
- Millerand, Alexandre, French president
- 1195, 1901, 1901, 1905.
- Millerovo
- 2595.
- Millesimo, battle of
- 1009.
- Millikan, Robert A., physicist
- 1150.
- Million Man March
- 3434.
- Million Woman March
- 3436.
- Millspaugh, Arthur C., American financier in Iran
- 2337.
- Milne, John, engineer
- 1152.
- Milner, Alfred
- 1557, 1558, 1558, 2352.
- Milo, Tarentine general
- 227.
- Milo, Titus Annius, Roman tribune
- 240, 241.
- Milosevic, Slobodan, Serbian leader
- 2754, 2756, 2757, 3177, 3178, 3178, 3178, 3179, 3180, 3180, 3180, 3181, 3182, 3182, 3186, 3188, 3370.
- Milosh Obrenovich, prince of Serbia
- 1284, 1284, 1284, 1284, 1284, 1285, 1285, 1285, 1286, 1286, 1328, 1329.
- Miltiades, Athenian general
- 180, 187, 188, 188, 190.
- Miltitz, Karl von, papal chamberlain
- 613.
- Milton, John, English writer
- 594, 675.
- Miluofuo
- 158.
- Milvian Bridge, Saxa Rubra
- 262.
- Milwaukee
- 1619.
- Milyutin, king of Serbia
- 562, 562.
- Mimana
- See Kaya.
- Mimar Sinan, Ottoman architect
- 794, 794, 795, 796, 798.
- Min, queen of Korea
- 1430, 1431, 1432, 1433, 1458.
- Mina
- 281.
- Minamata, Kyushu
- 4241.
- Minami Jir
 , Japanese leader
- 2493.
- Minamoto (Genji) clan
- 386, 386, 386, 387, 387, 387, 388, 389, 394, 394, 394, 396.
- Minamoto Masako, Japanese leader
- 394, 394.
- Minamoto Noriyori
- 394.
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