Micronesia 226, 249, 251
Middle Ages 99, 115–16, 121, 132–3, 198
Middle Stone Age 33, 38, 40
Ming period 188, 193, 194, 195
Minho 221–2
Mixtec 278
Molesworth, Caroline 173, 176–80, 181, 184–5
money
counting boards and 130, 131–2
denominate numbers and 170
Greek 106, 109, 110, 111
Mayan 276
Oksapmin 241, 242, 243, 252
Pomo and 263, 266–9
multiplication 42, 60
Arabic numerals and 184, 199
ciphering books and 168, 170
counting boards and 129, 165
Greek 104
hand gestures and 115
Hollerith tabulator and 212
Indian number symbols and 149, 152
origins of 82, 83
place-value system and 142, 143, 144
soroban calculation and 200, 201
Tongan language and 246
Mun’im al-’Abdari, Ahmad ibn 151–6, 163; ‘On the Science of Calculation’ 151–2
Mura 284–5
My Dud-to-Stud Boyfriend (webtoon) 222
myths, first written 81
Nag Hammadi 115–16
al-Nasir, Muhammad 153
Nassarius kraussianus 35
natural selection 17, 18
Neanderthals 43
Nebuchadnezzar 87
neocortex 22
New Guinea 226, 231, 235–43, 250
New Testament 115–16
New Zealand 175, 246, 250
