Middle East:中东：Arab-Israeli conflict,阿拉伯—以色列冲突529-30；civilization,文明3,11-44,48-75,77,79,89,99,103,104,117,129,152,181,545;Cold War alignments,冷战阵营529-31.See also Arabia, Arabs;Islam;specific countries,也见阿拉伯的，阿拉伯人；伊斯兰教；特定的国家
Migration,移民,530,543-44,545
Miletus,米利都133
Military dictatorships,军事独裁524
Milton, John,约翰·密尔顿376
Ming dynasty,明朝240,242,254,355,
Minos，米诺斯42
Missionaries,传教士43,168,190-92,245,248,251,274,333-334,338,340,345,354-57,397-98,400-401,453,475,478,548
Mithraism,密特拉教154,178
Mohacz,battle of,莫哈赤战役314
Mohammed Ali,of Egypt,埃及的穆罕默德·阿里393
Mohammed Kuprili 346
Mohammed of Ghazni,伽兹尼的穆罕默德
Mohammed the Prophet,先知默罕默德195,210-13,216,217,218,244,447,453
Mohenjo-daro,摩亨—佐达罗34
Moliere,莫里哀375
Monsticism,修道87,101,191,193,208-9,251
Mongolia,Mongols,蒙古利亚，蒙古人116,166,170,195,241-43,254-55,332,338
Monotheism,一神教66-75
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de,米歇尔·蒙田319
Montezuma,蒙特祖玛280
Morocco,摩洛哥338,481,483
Moses,摩西69,91
Moslems,穆斯林.See Islam,见伊斯兰教
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus,沃尔夫冈·阿玛迪乌斯·莫扎特375
Mughal empire,莫卧儿帝国298,345,393,443-44
Murasaki, Lady，紫氏部223
Mussolini Benuto,本尼托·墨索里尼499-500
Mycenaeans,迈锡尼89-90,98,114
Mysticism,神秘主义84-88,99,228,244-47,348,547
Nadir shah，纳迪尔沙汉396
NAFTA，北美自由贸易协定532
Nanak,纳南伽249
Nanking, treaty of,《南京条约》402
Napoleon,拿破仑429-31
Napoleon III,拿破仑三世431-32
NATO,北大西洋公约组织520,527-28,538
naval warfare,海战. See warfare, naval.见战争,海军的
navigation,航海.See ships and shipping, 见船只和造船业
Naxos,纳克索斯岛135
Nazism,纳粹主义502-4.,529. See also Fascism,也见法西斯主义
Neanderthal man,尼安德特人10
Nebuchadnezzar, 尼布甲尼撒,59,72
Nehemiah,《尼希米记》73
Neo-Confucianism,新儒学226,253,403-4
Nerchinsk, treaty of,《尼布楚条约》352
Netherlands,尼德兰人.See Dutch; Holland,见荷兰人,荷兰
Nevsky,涅夫斯基.See Alexander Nevs