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  Index

  Abbasid caliphate 17, 51, 52

  Abu Hamid al-Ghazali: The Incoherence of Philosophers 68

  Académie Royale des Sciences, Paris 69

  advertising see marketing/advertising

  Afghanistan xvi, 323

  Africa 5, 9, 33, 308

  China and 32, 145–6

  colonial period 14, 139, 195, 145, 146, 148, 163–75, 176–81, 189–95; First World War and 181–9; settlement pattern 170–71

  as the Dark Continent 146, 146n

  foreign aid to 145–6

  health issues 146–8, 168–75; HIV/AIDS 147; public health 171–2; Western medicine, effects of 146–8, 168–75

  life expectancy 168, 171

  see also individual countries

  Agricola, Georgius 65

  agricultural innovation 27–8

  agriculture 199, 293

  Eastern 26–7, 44, 46

  Western 26, 209

  see also food supplies

  al-Din al-Farisi, Kamal 51

  algebra 51

  Algeria 195

  al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham, Abū Alī 51

  al-Khwarizmi, Muhammad ibn Musa 51

  al-Qaeda 290

  alphabets see linguistic issues

  al-Rashid, Harun 51

  al-Waleed bin Abdel Malek 51

  Amaru, Túpac 101

  Amaru II, Túpac 115

  America, North 4, 9, 13

  French colonies (Louisiana Purchase) 160–61

  America, North, British colonies 14, 15, 96–7, 98, 99, 103–4, 109–12, 115–18

  Barbados Proclamation 110

  ‘Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina’ 109–10, 111, 114

  indentured servants as migrants to 103, 110–12

  native Indians 116, 125

  property rights 106–7, 106n, 110–12, 115–16, 117, 124–5, 138; headright system 111

  as Protestant 106, 114

  transatlantic trade 106, 115, 218–19

  see also American …; Canada; United States