soroban training and 198–201
tables 97, 115, 165, 199, 238
Tongan language and 246
adjective, number as 59, 63, 229
Africa 287
African Stone Age 31, 32–43, 57–62, 186, 231, 232, 287
Homo sapiens spread out of 6, 43, 57, 59, 62, 69
Islamic world and 147, 151, 153
wild number lines grounded in 31, 32–43, 57–62, 186, 253–4
Afro-Asiatic languages 95
Agaligmiut village 256–61, 279
agriculture 3
census and 207, 208
Chinese 188, 189
emergence of 71–2
Mayan 272, 273, 275
Sumerian 85, 86
Tongan 246
Western Chalukya Empire 142
Akkadian 85, 86–7, 90, 95, 148
Aleutian archipelago 260
Alexander the Great 92, 94
Alexandria 140
algebra 143, 145, 149, 154, 193
algorithms 142, 143, 164, 165, 170, 193
almanac 174, 175, 270, 273, 274, 276, 278
Almohad dynasty 151, 153
alphabets
alphabetic number symbols 98, 105, 106, 139, 141, 148–9, 303
Arabic 148–9, 152, 154
Greek 105, 106, 139, 303
Hebrew 160, 162
Latin 155, 160
South Asian 141
Amamalya Ayakwa 229–30
Amazon 7, 254, 279, 284
American Arctic 256
American National Archives 214
Americas 6, 7, 166, 225, 252, 253–85
humans enter 253, 254
