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Index
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abuse of children, 18–19, 23–24
Achilles, 30
Adrianople
Goths and, 113–114
importance of, 112
point in history, 114
Roman Empire after, 114–115
Afghans, 12
AIDS, 143, 144
airpower
Allied bombing of German cities, 240–241
B-17, 222, 225–226, 230
Battle of Britain, 231
bombing accuracy and, 230–231
control of military aircraft and, 227
“death blow,” 241
development of, 219
Douhet and, 224–225
early targets, 231
end of First World War and, 223
fear of, 220
firebombings, 156, 217–218, 238–239
First World War, 219–225
Guernica attack, 228–230
heavy bombing, 226
interwar period, 220
London Blitz, 236–237
Luftwaffe, 232, 235
morale-targeted bombing, 221
night bombing, 234
precision, 225
RAF manual rules, 230
strategic bombing, 192, 223, 234, 241
terror versus morale bombing, 235
WWII bombers, 232
zeppelin fleet, 222
Alexander the Great, 30, 83–84, 160
Anabasis, 69
Arnold, Henry “Hap,” 236
Arnold, John H., 33
Ashurnasirpal II, 73–74, 75–76
Assyria. See also Nineveh
age of culture, 71
as apex of civilization, 71
Ashurnasirpal II and, 73–74, 75–76
Babylon and, 82
backlash, 76
biblical prophets on downfall, 86
bloody symbolism, 75
cavalry, 77–78
civil war and, 84
Cyaxares attack on, 85
defined, 56
drilled infantry formations, 78
location, 56
military overextension and, 84
overview of, 56–57
quick decline of, 76–77
repression and, 74
revolution and, 74
Sennacherib and, 82, 83, 84
state terrorism, 74
success and it’s fall, 83
Xenophon record of, 69–71, 86
Assyrian kings, 73–74
Assyrians
behavior of, 74
cast as Nazis, 72–73
chariots of, 79–80
defeat of Hittites, 57
enemies of, 80–81
as horsemen, 80
imperialists, 76
movable wealth of, 81–82
power of, 57–58
succession problem of, 77
toughness and, 72
warfare and, 56–59
Athens of Pericles, 31
atomic blitz strategy, 173–174
atomic bomb
Einstein on, 163
horrors associated with, 157
initial damage of, 157
Manhattan project, 153
morality of using, 155, 156
official line on dropping of, 217
peace and, 162
realities of, 158
Soviet test of, 182
Trinity test, 154, 155, 160
United Kingdom and, 192–193
usage as ok, 213
victims of, 157–158
Atomic Energy Commission, 185
atomic secrets, 172
Aurelius, Marcus, 105
Axelrod, Daniel, 177
B-17 bombers, 222, 225–226, 230
Babylon
as apex of civilization, 71
Assyria and, 82
defined, 69
destruction of, 83
final solution to problem of, 82–83
Babylonia, 69
Babylonians
as hard to pacify, 82
Median army alliance, 85
Sennacherib and, 84
bacteriological warfare, 142–143
“barbarians”
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br /> armies, 91
defined, 94
fall of Roman Empire and, 28
local, 95
public perception of, 94–95
Romano-Germanic crisis and, 109–110
Romans and, 1, 94–95
Rome foes, 96
we as, 211
Barbero, Alessandro, 121, 122–123
Barry, John, 137–138, 139
Baruch, Bernard, 166
Battle of Britain, 231
Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, 105
beating of children, 19, 20–21, 22
Berlin Blockade, 178–179, 206
“biblical era,” 79
Biddle, Tami Davis, 235–236
“Big Stories,” xii
Black Death. See also plagues
art of the period and, 134
clergy and, 132, 133
dead, 131–132
death rates, 130, 135, 144
description of devastation, 131
first reports of, 130
Great Pestilence and, 135–136
Jews and, 134–135
mass absolutions and, 133
modern man birth because of, 136
onset of, 130
parents abandoning children, 132
peasants and, 136
pessimism in society and, 134
as population disaster, 135–136
population loss in England, 135
precursor to, 128
Spanish Flu and, 140
strength of, 130
subsequent outbreaks of, 135–136
witchcraft and, 135
Bostrom, Nick, 129
Brands, H. W., 209
Britain
atomic bomb and, 192–193
London and, 117–118
under Roman rule, 89
Romans and, 88
after Rome’s power, 89
at war (WWII), 231–240
Brodie, Bernard, 198
Bronze Age
archaeological evidence from, 36–37
defined, 32
destroyed cities and, 37–38
Egyptian records, 37–40
public opinion and, 182
system as fragile, 61
trading network, 60
Bronze Age collapse
bureaucratic structure and, 64–65
climate change, 48
drought and, 48–49
earthquakes and, 53–54
explanation behind, 34
famine and, 45–49
invasion theory and, 41–42, 44–45
multiple causes for, 60–61
plagues and, 54–56
questions for understanding, 34
sea peoples and, 38–39, 40–45
systems collapse and, 60–61
theories, 36
tsunamis and, 51–54
volcanos and, 49–52
warfare and, 42, 56–60
Caesar, Julius
Celtic tribes and, 100
conquest of Gaul, 96
description of troops, 101
Germans and, 100–101
nuclear weapons and, 169
over English Channel, 88
Carolingians, 119, 121
Castle Bravo test, 148
Catholic Church, 117
Celtic tribes, 88
chariots, Assyrians, 79–80
Charlemagne
fighting pagan Saxons, 122–123
as historical figure, 119
as king of the Franks, 120
pope and, 120–121
Vikings and, 124
Charles I. See Charlemagne
child abandonment, 23–24
child labor, 25–26
child-rearing practices
actions and harm and, 23
best, as abusive and damaging, 27
corporal punishment, 19–21
historical importance of, 16–17
in history, 15
ignorance and, 15
liquor and opium in, 22
modern, 15–16
psychohistory and, 16–17
society and, 16, 17–18
theories of impact of, 16
wet nurses and, 24–25
witnessing executions and, 22, 23
children
abuse of, 18–19, 23–24
beating of, 19–21, 22
casual giving away of, 24–25
as commodity, 25–26
culture shielding from abuse and, 18
exposure to violence, 22–24
liquor and opium practice and, 22
losing to disease, 9–10
parent contact with, 24–25
sexuality between adults and, 21–22
in Sparta, 7–8
Chinese Communists, 179
cholera, 144
Churchill, Winston, 233, 237–238
Cimbri, 98–99, 100, 103
Cirincione, Joseph, 166, 199–200
Ćirković, Milan, 129
civilization
“blessings of,” 88–89
destruction of, growing possibility of, 163
human being and, 11
as not unsinkable, 141
“preserver of,” 81
rise and fall of, x, 1, 27
Total War and, 147
civilizational experiment, 184, 187
climate change, in Bronze Age collapse, 48
Clovis I, 118–119
Cold War, 166–167, 171, 175, 242
collateral damage, 217
Collins, Roger, 106, 114
Compton, Arthur Holly, 162
corporal punishment, 19–21
Crane, Conrad, 218, 240
Crete, 52
Cuban Missile Crisis
EXCOMM meetings and, 205–206
Kennedy and, 204–208
media reporting of, 208–210
missile discovery and, 204–205
Soviets and, 205, 207–208
televised speech on, 207
terror of, 208
Custer, Armstrong, 103
Cyaxares, 84–85
Dananu, 75
Danube River, 98, 105, 110–111
dark age, x, 45, 62–63, 159, 242
Dark Ages, 28, 116, 119
Davy Crockett, 199
dead zones, 102–103
deaths
Black Death, 131–132, 133
child, 22
Spanish Flu, 140
deep questions, xi
Deighton, Len, 233, 235
Delbrück, Hans, 11–12, 13
deMause, Lloyd, 16–17, 19, 25
deterrence, 177–178
disease. See also plagues
Bible catalog of, 127
as constant human companion, 126
contagion spread, 145
extreme levels of, 128
weaponization, 142
Douhet, Giulio, 224–225
Drews, Robert, 35
drought, 34, 45–49, 53
Durant, Will, 6
Dyer, Gwynne, 83, 167
Dyson, Freeman, 234
earthquakes, 53–54
Ebola, 140–141
Egypt, ancient
Assyria and, 84
Bronze Age records, 37–40
in crushing invasion, 39
encounters with sea peoples, 38
famine evidence, 47
migration and, 44
plague and, 56
Ramesses III and, 38–39, 40
Einstein, Albert, 152–153, 159, 163
Eisenhower, Dwight David, 195, 201
Elamite people, 31–32, 75, 82, 84
“The End of the World,” 161–162
The Epic of Gilgamesh, 71
“escalation dominance,” 176
EXCOMM meetings, 205–206
famine
in Bronze Age demise, 45–49
causes of, 47–48
evidence of, 47
in Hattusa, 55–56
mass fatality-l
evel, 46
as reason for migrations/invasions, 46–47
as spark, 49
in systems collapse, 60–61
Fermi, Enrico, 184–185, 243
Fermi paradox, 243, 244
Ferrill, Arther, 92, 111
firebombings, 156, 217–218, 238–239
First World War. See also war
airpower in, 219–225
economies at end of, 58
Royal Navy in, 235
Spanish Flu and, 137
weapon technology and, 151–152
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, 45, 56, 58
Franks, 115, 116, 118–120, 123
Friedrich, Jörg, 235
Gaddis, John Lewis, 148–149, 191
game theory, 197–198
Gauls, 101, 108
generations, toughness of, 5
Germanic tribes. See also “barbarians”
in central Europe, 97–98, 106
contracts/treaties with, 115
dead zones and, 102–103
driven from Danubian frontier, 110
first contact moment, 98
Goths, 112, 113–114
of late imperial era, 109
as looking like romans, 106–107
post-Adrianople Romans and, 115
Roman armies and, 103
Saint Lebuin conversion of, 123
successor states, 118
swelling of numbers, 99
Germanization, 108–109
Germans, 97, 100–101, 102, 107–108
Gibbon, Edward, 9
gods of war, 214
Golden, William, 181–182
Gotha raids, 221–222
Gothic War, 111
Goths, 112, 113–114
Great Depression, 3–4, 47–48, 62–64, 227
Greatest Generation, the, 3, 5, 19
Great Filter, 243, 245
Great Pestilence, 135
Greece, ancient
civilian militia approach in, 7
Dorians and, 45
history writing from, 1
plague and, 56
Xenophon and, 7
Grossman, Dave, 239–240
growing into greatness, 184, 187
Guernica attack, 228–230
Hague Convention, 220
Halsey, William F. “Bull,” 174
Halzi Gate, 67–68
Harris, Arthur “Bomber,” 233, 235
Hattusa, 55–56
Heather, Peter, 109
Heston, Charlton, 28–29, 242
Hiroshima, 83, 156, 157–158, 183–184, 198, 212–213
The History of Childhood, 19, 20, 22
Hitler, Adolf, 160, 175, 231
Hittite Empire, 31, 35, 42
Hittites
decline of, 59
defeated by Assyrians, 57
Egyptian food to, 60
food crisis, 47
Hoffmeister, Kate, 237
Homer, 29, 30, 65, 71
Honorius, 115
Hopper, Bruce, 241