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Wessex, 209 Yamkhad, 110-11, 113, -LUU
"Western” cultivators of Europe, 24 171, 172, 173, 174, 186, 217, 243,
West Indies, 280 253, 261, 268
wheat, 16, 27, 39, 54, 94, 155, 189, 202, yams, 31
294, 295, 341, 342 Yangtze-kiang, river, 286
Windmill Hill, 23 Yanisei, river, 365, 367
wine, 102, 160, 189, 210, 214, 241, 258,
260, 263, 287, 288, 295, 325, 335, Yao, emperor, 30
Yarim-lim, king of Yamkhad, 111, 113
336, 343, 358, 360, 364, 366, 373,
Yellow River (Huang-ho), 30, 155,
385, 388
wool, 11, 44, 45, 77, 94, 125, 189, 209, 285, 286-7, 289, 384-6, 388-90
293, 295, 305, 370, 371, 375 Yin dynasty, see Shang dynasty
writing: Egyptian hieroglyphic, 4, 136; Yu, emperor, 30
Egyptian hieratic, 188; Mesopota­
mian cuneiform, 12, 81, 119, 134,
144; Indus, 17; Cretan hieroglyphic, Zab, river, 362
134; Minoan A (Old Cretan), 134, Zabum, king of Babylon, 109
226, 228, 245; Minoan B, 134, 226, Zagros, mountains, 149
228, 340; Chinese, 288, 289; alpha­
betic, 398 Zalavrouga, 37
Wu, king of Chou, 384-9 Zeus, 228
ziggurat, 74, 75
Ziklag, 392
Yahwa, 258 Zimri-lim, king of Mari, 111, 113, 117
Yakob-bael, king of Hyksos, 136 Ziusudra, 9, 45