The above table will be useful as showing the present colonial empires of European powers, with which many people are imperfectly acquainted. Those of Great Britain will be found in any good geography or year-book. INDEX N.B.-The numbers refer to the paragraphs, not to the pages. ADVENTURERS' (Merchant) Com- | Barbarian invasions, 27-33 pany, 91, 126 Africa and Carthage, 10; Greeks Agriculture, English, 153, 157, 170 Alfred the Great, 85 Algiers, 177 Alsace, 144 Amalfi, 33, 42 Amboina, 100 Bardi, the, 44 Beet sugar, 174, 179, 183 Berlin Decree, Napoleon's, 162 Black Sea, Greeks in, 14; Venetians Bounties on corn, '130; on sugar, 183 America, South, 110-117, 164; Bourse, the (Paris), 176 North, 117-123 Amsterdam, 138 Antwerp, 66, 125, 138 Arabia, 25 Arabian traders, 20 Arkwright's inventions, 154 Brazil, 96, 116, 143, 164, 195 Bremen, 58, 67, 140, 179, 181, 184 Bright, John, 200 Bruges, 60, 64, 79 Brunswick, 142 Asia, Greeks in, 13; Russia in, 191 Byzantium, 82 Asia Minor, cities of, 19, 25 Companies, Merchant (English), 91, East Indian Companies: Dutch, 100; French, 102, 106; English, Eastland Company, 127 and, 49, 73; conquest of, 74 Enumerated Articles, the, 135 Exchequer, stop of the, 133 Expansion of English trade during FAIRS, 75-77 Fair-towns of Germany, 142 n. 40 Fifty years of British trade: Appen- Fisheries (English), 159 Fiume, 150 Holstein, 198 Hotels, the first, 51 Flanders, 2, 68, 78, 79, 88; and Hudson's Bay, 122 England, 88, 92 Flemish, wealth of, 80 Huguenots, 131, 143, 147 Florence, commerce of, 43-44, 92, Huskisson, 167 GENOA, 53, 71, 72, 151 Genoese traders, 3 Germany, commerce and manu- Gilbert, Sir H., 119 Gilds, Roman, 21; mediæval, 37, Gold, discoveries of, 169 HAMBURG, 58 sqq., 66, 67, 127, Hansa, the, 39, 57-67, 90, 125, 140, Hansards, the, 61 Hargreaves's inventions, 154 Henry VII. of England, commerce INDEMNITY (French to Germany), Independence, War of American, India, in Roman times, 21, 25; Industrial Revolution in England, Intercursus Magnus, the, 92 Invasions of barbarians upon Roman Inventions, the great industrial, 154- 156 Iron, English, 155 Italian cities, mediæval, 41-56; JEWS in England, 92 n.; Europe, Justinian, 29 KARL the Great, 29, 30, 34, 58 LAW, John, 145 | Law, Roman, 33 n. London, the Hansa factory in, 60-62; Louis XIV. of France, 143, 144 Henry VIII., changes in his reign, Louisiana, 122 124 Holland, 78, 98-101, 138, 139, 160, Lübeck, 58, 67, 140, 141, 181 M'KINLEY Tariff, the, 200 Madagascar, 177 Maria Theresa, 192 Middle Ages (earlier), 34-82; (later), Milan, 54, and cf. Italy Milan Decree, Napoleon's, 162 Mississippi Company (French), 145 Modern Europe, 173-200 Peruzzi, the, 44 Peter the Great of Russia, 148, 149 Poland, 66, 142, 150 Policy, recent commercial, 200 Portuguese explorers, 93 Post, penny, the, 167 Prussia, 59, 65, 127, 140, 198, and RAILWAYS, in England, 168 Revolution, French, 5, 145, 160, 174; Rhine, the, 69 NAPOLEON I., 162, 174, 178, 189, Roads, Roman, 26; English, 156 |