Kuban,库班河41
Kung-fu,功夫547
Kuomintang,国民党459-60
Kushan empire,贵霜帝国168,171,177,197
Kutchuk Kainardji,Treaty of，《库楚克·凯纳吉条约》，389
Kuwait,科威特540
Lagash,拉格什15
Lamaism,喇嘛教242,338
Language,语言35,41,64,82,84,90,153,161,184-87,218,222,232,240,245,249,267,318-19,373,375,
460,472-73,546.See also printing,writing,也见印刷术，文字
Laos,老挝456,521
Latin America,拉丁美洲532,540-41,543,544,548.See also specific countries，也见特定国家
Latvia,拉脱维亚247,497,504
law,law codes法律，法典21,36,63,159,183-84,486;Islamic, 216,539;Napoleonic,429;Natural,100;Roman,161-62,205,265
League of Nations,国际联盟498,516
Lebanon,黎巴嫩530
Legalists,法家109,170
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm,戈特弗里德·威廉·莱布尼茨370
Lenin,V.I.弗拉基米尔·列宁496,498,500,501,518,524
Leo III,Emperor,皇帝立奥三世230,231
Leonardo da vinci,李奥纳多·达·芬奇318
Leopold,King,利奥波德国王479,480
Leo the Great,Pope,教皇大立奥554
Liberia,利比里亚485,540
Libya,利比亚29,539
Lincoln,Abraham,阿伯拉罕·林肯419
Linnaeus, Carl卡尔·林奈372
Li Po,李白225
Lithuania,立陶宛330,497,504
Livingstone,David,大卫·利文斯通478
约翰·洛克Locke, John,372-73,374
Lollards,劳拉德派269
Lombards,伦巴第人230-231
Lope de Vega,洛佩·德·维加318
Louis XIV,路易十四360,361-63,364
Louis XVI,路易十六426,428
Loyala, Ignatius,伊格纳修·罗耀拉323
Lucaris, Cyril,西里尔·鲁卡里斯349
Lucretius,卢克莱修161
Luther, Martin,马丁·路德314,319,320
Lydia,吕底亚92,113
Mabillon, Jean让·马比龙373
Macao,澳门303
Macedonia,马其顿61,147-50,156
Machiavelli, Niccolo,尼可洛·马基雅维利318
Madagascar,马达加斯加118,275
Magadha，摩揭陀166
Magellan，Ferdinand,费迪南·麦哲伦295,303
Magyars,马扎尔人232,234
Mahavira,笩駄摩那86
Mahayana Buddhism,大乘佛教177-78.See also Buddhism,也见佛教
Mahdi,马赫迪475,481
Maimonides,迈蒙尼德246
Malacca,马六甲303
Malaria,疟疾542
Malaya,Malayans,马来亚，马来亚人117-18,172-73,188,254,520,532
Mali,马里277
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