Abbas, Shah, 阿巴斯·谢赫345
Abbasids, 阿巴斯王朝215-20, 314
Abdul Hami, Sutan, 苏丹阿卜杜尔·哈米德449
Abelard, Peter, 彼得·阿贝拉德265
Abraham, 阿伯拉罕69
Abu Bakr, 阿布·巴克尔213
Abyssinia, 阿比西尼亚，277, See also Ethiopia,也见埃塞俄比亚
Achaeans亚该亚人,48,50
Acupuncture, 针刺疗法 547
Aeschulus埃斯库罗斯,139
Afghanistan, 阿富汗369,451
Africa, 非洲 7,13,27,43,113,273, 275-78,301-2,468ff,527,531,See also Separate countries and regions，也见各国和地区
Agriculture: 农业Clove,丁香367; commercial,商品化的92-93,341-42, 350,484; garden cultivation,园林45; irrigation,灌溉13,19-20,279; maize,玉米46,113,354,367,470,473; millet,粟102;Neolithic,新石器时代的11-13; potatoes,马铃薯 279,367;rain-watered lands,雨水灌溉地38;rice paddy水稻梯田,45,78,102,222,225; root,根茎113,274,276,470; slash and burn,刀耕火种11-13,22,44,76,sweet potatoes,甘薯 354, 473; turnips, 胡萝卜367;wheat and barley,小麦和大麦 11-13,102
Ahmed shah Durani
AIDS, 艾滋病543
Airplane, 飞机421-23,509,539
Akbar, 阿克巴345
Akhnaton, 埃赫那吞68
Akkad, 阿卡德21,37,52
Alaska, 阿拉斯加11,379, 419
Albert the Great, Saint, 圣大阿尔伯特266
Alexander I of Russia, 俄罗斯的亚历山大一世431
Alexander Nevsky, 亚历山大·内维斯基250
Alexander the Great, 亚历山大大帝63,149-51,166
Algeria, 阿尔及利亚481,521,530
Altai mountains, 阿尔泰山103,116,117,240
American Revolution, 美国革命361,365,379,426,490
Americas美洲人11,13,118,278-82,295,304,333-36,379-83,418. See also specific countries, 也见特定国家
Ameindians, 美洲印第安人118,278-82,304,333-35,538,540-1
Amos, 阿摩斯65,71
Anabaptists, 洗礼派321
Anaxagoras, 阿那克萨哥拉斯140
Angkor Wat吴哥窟274
Anglo-Saxons, 盎格鲁—撒克逊人229
Angola, 520
Anna Comnena, 安娜·康尼娜251
Annam, 安南223
Anselm of Bec, Saint, 贝克的圣安瑟伦265
Atibiotics, 抗生素542, 543
Antigonids安帝哥尼斯151
Anyang, 安阳103,104
Arabia, Arabs, 阿拉伯的，阿拉伯人27,48,210ff, 223,225,234,277,451-52,495,498,529-31,539
Aramaeans, 阿拉曼尼56,64
Architecture, 建筑547
Ardashir阿尔达希尔