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(v) in Ottoman empire,
390
revolt,
750
independence,
871
World War I and,
892
Turkish concessions,
941
World War II and,
960
Russians on borders,
971
British intervention,
973
–4,
975
US aid,
975
joins EEC,
1113
Greenland,
407
Gregory, St (538–94), bishop of Tours,
303
Gregory I (
c.
540–604), pope (590–604),
312
–13,
314
Gregory VII (Hildebrand) (
c.
1023–85), pope (1073–85),
492
–3,
500
Guatemala,
907
Gupta empire in India,
429
–31
Gutenberg, Johannes (
c.
1400–1468), German printer,
541
–2
Habsburg dynasty in Europe
Holy Roman emperors,
509
Church and state,
595
wars against France,
599
–600,
602
,
604
territories,
601
against Prussia,
626
,
755
and Napoleon,
742
Dual Monarchy,
756
,
871
,
883
,
898
foreign policies,
887
,
888
,
889
,
890
Ottoman parallels,
937
–8
Hadrian (76–138), Roman emperor (117–38),
247
,
248
,
257
,
289
Haile Selassie (1891–1976), Ethiopian emperor,
1076
Hamdanid dynasty,
372
Hammurabi, king of Babylon (
c.
1792–1750
BC
),
61
–2,
64
code of,
62
Han dynasty in China,
446
–9
Later Han,
446
–9
Hannibal (247–182
BC
), Carthaginian general,
234
Hanoi,
986
Harappan culture in India,
121
–3,
127
–8
Haroun-al-Raschid (
c.
764–809), caliph of Baghdad,
338
,
341
,
398
,
454
Harvey, William (1578–1657), English physician,
682
Hatshepsut (
c.
1490–1470
BC
), queen of Egypt,
83
Hawaii,
828
see also
Pearl Harbour
Hebrews
Egypt and,
85
,
108
,
111
origins,
108
monotheism,
110
–11,
113
settle in Palestine,
112
–13
prophets,
114
see also
Jews; Judaism
Heisenberg, Werner (1901–76), German physicist,
1014
Hellenistic civilization
Alexander’s empire,
214
–17
government by cities,
218
–20
intellectual activity,
220
–3
influence on Byzantium,
350
–1
Persian damage,
353
Turkish annihilation,
388
Helsinki agreement (1975),
1129
,
1137
Henry ‘the Fowler’ (
c.
876–936), king of E. Franks (912–36),
402
–3
Henry II (973–1024), Ottonian emperor (1002–24),
404
–5
Henry IV (1050–1106), Holy Roman emperor (1056–1106),
493
–4
Henry VII (1457–1509), king of England (1485–1509),
511
,
600
Henry VIII (1491–1547), king of England (1509–47),
504
,
580
,
581
,
662
,
705
Henry IV (1553–1610), king of France (1589–1610),
581
,
599
,
675
Henry ‘the Navigator’ (1394–1460), prince of Portugal,
532
–3
Heraclius (
c.
575–641), Roman emperor in E. (610–41),
320
,
324
,
350
Hero of Alexandria (2nd cent.
AD
), Greek engineer,
220
Herod Agrippa I (d.
AD
44), king of Palestine,
271
Herod the Great (74–4
BC
), king of Judaea (40–4
BC
),
264
Herodotus (
c.
484–
c.
424
BC
)
Greek historian,
74
,
118
,
162
on Africa,
150
‘father of history’,
206
–7
on Scythians,
322
Hesiod (
c.
700
BC
), Greek poet,
207
Hideyoshi, (1536–98), Japanese general and dictator,
473
,
474
Hildebrand
see
Gregory VII
Hinduism
in ancient India,
128
–30,
131
development of,
426
–7,
431
–2,
438
–9
social practices,
431
–3,
850
,
854
,
982
Hindu-Moslem rivalry in India,
638
,
853
–5,
980
–2,
1120
essential forms revived,
852
Hippocrates of Cos (
c.
- 460
c.
357
BC
), Greek physician,
204
,
537
,
538
Hirohito, emperor of Japan (1901–1989),
1063
historiography
evidence, methods and problems,
549
–50
Greek,
206
–7
Gibbon,
691
Hitler, Adolf (1889–1945), German dictator racial views,
953
,
959
,
988
rise to power,
953
allied with Mussolini,
955
foreign policies,
955
–6
war strategies,
957
–8,
959
,
960
use of radio,
1039
influence on Egypt,
84
,
85
and Mycenae,
101
in Asia Minor,
106
–7
collapse,
107
,
115
Hobbes, Thomas (1588–1679), English political philosopher,
590
–1
Ho Chi Minh (1892–1969), N. Vietnamese statesman,
986
–7
Hohenzollern dynasty in Germany,
594
,
625
–6,
627
,
755
Holy Roman Empire
foundations in Ottonian empire,
403
,
405
Habsburg domination,
509
,
595
,
601
–2
power limited,
570
,
600
Napoleonic revision,
741
–2
Homer, author of
Iliad
and
Odyssey
,
93
,
103
,
171
,
207
evidence of,
174
–5,
180
–1,
199
importance of,
174
–5
hominids,
8
–17
fossil sites,
20
Homo erectus
,
11
–17
Homo sapiens
prototypes,
11
–13,
17
,
18
–21
racial groups,
26
–7,
47
physical development,
30
–1
adaptable,
34
,
37
Honduras,
1083
Hong Kong, British base,
795
,
1064
,
1115
Honorius I, pope (625–38),
350
horses
exploited for war,
89
–90,
100
,
107
,
124
,
161
,
365
in Africa,
478
in Americas,
483
,
671
used for agriculture,
516
,
1005
declining use,
880
Hottentots,
668
Hsiung-Nu,
322
–3
expelled from China,
446
see also
Huns
Hudson, Henry (d. 1611), English explorer,
650
–1
Hudson’s Bay Company,
661
Hugh Capet (
c.
938–96), king of France (987–96),
402
,
408
Hugo, Victor (1802–85), French writer,
716
Huguenots, Protestants in France,
589
,
590
,
592
–3,
658
Hulugu, Mongol khan,
382
Human Genome Project,
1016
–17
humanism, embodied by Erasmus,
575
Hume, David (1711–76), Scottish philosopher,
691
Hunas in India,
433
–4
Hungary
Dual Monarchy
see
Habsburgs
defeat by Mongols,
379
defeat by Turks,
388
,
610
acquired by Habsburgs,
509
freed from Turks,
611
revolt,
751
,
753
Slav nationalism in,
871
,
898
Magyar nationalism in,
883
anti-Soviet revolution,
1093
end of communist regime,
1141
joins NATO,
1150
and European Union,
1155
Hung Hsiu-ch’uan (1812–64), Taiping leader,
835
,
836
,
837
Huns
Asian nomads, assault Roman Empire,
292
,
293
,
312
Mongolian power,
322
–3
hunting,
14
,
15
–16,
23
origin of aristocracy,
34
Hus, John (
c.
1373–1415), Church reformer,
501
–2
Hussein (
c.
1854–1931), sherif of Mecca (1908–24),
937
,
938
,
939
–40
Huxley, Thomas Henry (1825–95), British thinker,
917
hydrogen bomb,
1045
Hyksos, Semitic peoples,
83
,
89
,
97
Ibn-Sina (979–1037), Arab philosopher,
339
Ibsen, Henrik Johan (1828–1906), Norwegian dramatist,
869
,
918
Iceland,
407
Iconoclasm movement in Orthodox Church,
351
,
355
–7,
397
,
412
iconography
Orthodox Christianity and,
355
–7
of the Buddha,
472
IMF
see
International Monetary Fund
Imhotep (fl.
c.
2800
BC
), Egyptian architect,
73
imperialism
popular in Athens,
196
by suction,
323
crusades as examples of,
526
impetus for Europeans,
630
–1,
657
–8,
664
–5,
811
,
822
–3
commercial empires of Portuguese and Dutch,
633
–7,
800
–2
British in India,
637
–41,
815
–20,
849
–56
Spanish in America,
641
–7,
800
N. American settlement,
648
–56
economic effects of,
664
–5,
667
,
793
–7