Sharia Law 64
Shelley, Percy Bysshe 19
Shia Muslims 62, 63, 66
Siberia 136, 203–4, 210 224
sideways history 92–3, 115–16, 122, 140
Silk Road 113, 114, 117, 119
Sima Qin 107
Sinan, Mimar 167
Singh, Udam 180
slavery 182–6, 203, 220, 226
smallpox 169–70
Smith, Adam 82, 219
Socrates 78, 144
Song Dynasty 119
South Africa 195
Soviet Union 135, 235
Cold War 7–8, 216, 233, 234
Stalin 95, 212, 214–15
see also Russia
Spain 194
Al-Andalus 74–6, 77, 115–16
and Americas 145–6, 147, 158, 175, 224
hand stencils 150–1
and Netherlands 206
spice trade 186, 187
Stalin, Joseph 95, 212, 214–15, 233
Stanley, Henry 179
Strabo 164
Suleiman the Magnificent 155, 167
Süleymaniye mosque 167–8
Sumerians 14–15, 29
Sun Tzu 94–5
Sung Dynasty 105
Sunni Muslims 62, 63, 66–7
Switzerland 206
Taleb, Nassim 99
Teller, Edward 6
Temujin see Genghis Khan
Tenochtitlan 138, 140, 141–2, 146
terracotta army 106–7, 130
Texcoco 140
Thirty Years War 202, 205
Tiberias 54
Tlacopan 140
Tolstoy, Leo 210
Topkapi Palace 164–6, 167
trade 76, 175, 176, 181–2, 186–7
Trotsky, Leon 212
Trump, President 223
Turkey 174
Uighurs 89, 91, 105
Umayyad Caliphate 62, 63–6, 74
United States 159, 177, 189, 218, 219–39
Alaska 225–6
Civil War 226–7
Cold War 7–8, 216, 233, 234
and communism 213
Declaration of Independence 219, 220, 227
First World War 194, 231
Gettysburg Address 227–8
and Ireland 192
Kennedy 233–5
Louisiana Purchase 225
nuclear weapons 6–7
Panama Canal 230–1
Second World War 195, 232
slavery 184, 203, 226
Wild West 204
see also America
USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) see Soviet Union
vaccination 169–70
Vandals 55, 57
Venice 93, 115, 161–2, 175, 207
Victoria, Queen 189
Vienna 155–6
Vietnam War 216, 227, 233
Vikings 57
Villon, François 51
Virgil 39
Vladimir the Great 199, 200
Voltaire 161, 170
von Däniken, Erich 47, 147
von Ranke, Leopold 66
Wales 191
Wang Zhen 120
war 10
War and Peace (Tolstoy) 210
Weatherford, Jack 96
Webster, David 138
Weidenreich, Franz 135
Wellerstein, Alex 7
Wellesley, Arthur, Duke of Wellington 188
Wellington, Duke of 188
Wells, H.G. 32–3
Westphalia, Treaty of 205–6, 211, 218
Wilberforce, William 184
William of Normandy 169
Wilson, President 231
Wilson, Woodrow 194
Wittgenstein, Ludwig 145
Wolfe, General 189
wolves 84
writing 14–15
Xanadu 83
Xian Zhang 119
Yamamoto, Admiral 232
Yeltsin, Boris 217
Yuan Dynasty 105, 108–9, 112–24
zero 139–40
Zheng He 1–4, 123
Zhou Enlai 106
Zhu Di I Zhu Shijie 122
ziggurats 29–31, 130
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