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Index

mercenaries, 295.

merchants, see traders

Mercury, planet, 161.

Merenptah, King, 40, 89, 224,

meridian, observation of, 165.

Merikare, King, 75, 246.

Merimda culture, 122, 127, 130; pot-
tery, 122, 130, pi. 14.

merkhetf star-sighting instrument, 163.

Merodach-baladan, chieftain, 46.

Merovingian kings, 284.

Merowe, 134.

Mesopotamia, 118, 218, 240; burnt
bricks in, 128; Chaldaeans in, 46;
city-states in, 24-5; commercial and
cultural unity of Syria and, 26; early
writing in, 22; key date in history of,
12; literature of Egypt, Palestine,
and Mesopotamia compared, 71-2;
merchants from, 29; nomads of west-
ern deserts in, 25; prehistoric pottery
of, 21.

metal from Anatolia, 23; from Cappa-
docia, 29.

metal: adzes, 123; axes, 123; borers,
123; engraving, 366; ores, 134-6.

metal objects, survival of, 86.

metal-working, 135.

metaphors, 242.

meteorology, 160.

metropolis, the, 334, 339.

Meyer, E., chronology of, a n. r, 13.

Middle Kingdom, 114-15; early burial-
places of, 96; jewellery of, 97, 1015
literature of, 73-6; rulers of, 93.

Migdol, place, 235.

military authority, 333.

military fiefs, 371.

mind (Novs), 313.

miniature painting, 362.

Minoan culture: beginnings of civiliza-
tion, 23-4; Early period of, 12;
traders from, in Eastern Mediterra-
nean, 29, 30; see also Crete.

Minya, city, 370.

missionaries, 328.

Mistress of the Year (Sinus), 162.

Mitanni, the, 36-8, 221.

Mitanni, State, 32, 35-6.

Mizraim, see So.

Moab, 43, 229; sheikh of, 42.

Moabite Stone, 59, 61, 63.
models, 96, in, pis. 19, 21.
modernism, 392.
Moerjs, Lake, 266.
Mohammed, see Muhammad.
monasteries: architecture and design,
364-5; centres of nationalist feeling,
342-3; estates of, 337; fortification
of, 323; white and red, 320-1.
localities, 322; of Abu Bolos (Father
Paul), 319; on the Appian Way, 326;
near Armant, 322; in the Faiyum,
322; in basilica in Jerusalem, 326;
at Jesse near Thebes, 322; at L£rins
(St. Honorat), 325; of Mar Antuni,
319; attached to basilica of St. Peter,
326; near Siut (Asyut), 322; at
Tabennesi, 319-20.
monasticism: coenobitic or community
life, 319-20; contemporary accounts,
323-4; Coptic Church and Egyptian
monasticism, 317-31; Egypt's great
gift to the Middle Ages, 332; in
Rome, 325-6 ; move towards simpli-
city, 322; origin, 317-19; persecu-
tion, 327-9; reform, 320-1, 324;
solitaries, 317-19; spread of, to other
lands, 324-5; under Fatimid khalifs,
33°-
Mond, Sir Robert, 102.
monetary reforms of Diocletian, 273.
money, 283, 379-80.
Mongol sack of Bagdad, 351.
monks, 321-3, 326-7, 351.
monophysitism, 300, 332, 340-1, 345.
monopolies, 293-4.
monotheism, 70, 392.
Montet, P., 60, 62.
moon, the, 388.
mortar, used in building, 150.
mortars, for grinding corn, 158.
mortises, 138.
Mortuary Realm of Zoser, 91-2.
mortuary temples, 94.
mosaics, 134.
mosques: al-Azhar, 351, 363-4; of
Abu '1 Haggag, 389; of Bahri Mam-
luks, 364-5; of BarqQq,'365; of
Baybars I, 365; of Burji Mamluks,
365; Great, of Damascus, 364; of
al-Hakim, 364; of Ibn Tulun, 364;