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A Concise History of the World

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by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks


  Index

  ‘Abbas I,219

  ‘Abbasid dynasty,142, 146, 151, 179, 202

  abolitionist movement,309, 312

  Aboriginal Australians,310, 321

  abortion,320, 355, 360

  Abraham,116, 138

  Adi Granth,260

  adoption,39, 88, 96, 242

  adultery,93, 115, 117

  advertising,308

  Afonso I, king of Kongo,266

  Africaagriculture in,167

  decolonization in,343, 351

  drought in,215

  human evolution in,16, 20, 26

  imperialism in,328

  marriage in,101

  slave trade in,251

  slavery in,202, 221

  age-grade groups,167

  agriculturecommercial,300, 326, 330

  in Africa,344

  in Americas,164

  in Asia,171

  in China,110, 235, 346

  in Europe,170

  in India,342

  in Roman Empire,112

  in Soviet Union,337

  plow,53–54, 59, 61

  spread of,48, 52, 58, 160, 171, 177

  subsistence,301

  Ahuramazda,119

  AIDS,365, 370

  Akbar,262

  Aksum,126

  alcohol,56, 140, 240, 308, 326in early modern era,248–249

  in Islam,357

  Alexander the Great,98

  Alfonso VI, king of Spain,196

  Algeria,343

  Algonquin people,241

  alphabet.Seewriting

  al-Tabari, Abu Ja’far,1

  Altan Khan,260

  Amar Das,260

  Amaterasu,154

  Amazonia,164, 167

  American War of Independence.SeeRevolution,American

  Amitabha,121

  Amsterdam,264

  Anasazi,164

  ancestor veneration,171

  Andes region,166inheritance patterns in,103

  religion in,265

  revolts in,280

  Anghor Thom,179

  Angkor Wat,151

  animism,40, 265

  Anyang,75

  apartheid,351

  Argentina,11, 239, 344, 350–351

  aristocrats.Seenobles

  Aristotle,111

  Arjan Dev,260

  Armenia and Armenians,195, 225, 289

  armies.See alsowarfareand schooling,296

  in imperial Africa,330

  in World War I,331

  artAthenian,99

  Chinese,153

  courtly,151

  early human,22

  in medieval cities,179

  Japanese,236

  Maya,83

  modern,334, 339

  Neanderthal,23

  Neolithic,64

  Renaissance,225

  rock,11, 40, 42–43, 79

  Aryans,105

  Ashante kingdom,329

  Ashoka,118

  assembly line,297

  Athens,78, 85families in,97

  slavery in,110–111

  Augustus,114

  Australia,238, 283, 310, 321aboriginal peoples,172

  British settlement of,222

  immigration restrictions in,316

  Australopithecus,16

  Austro-Hungarian Empire,332

  Axial Age,115

  ayllus,166

  Ayuthia Kingdom,264

  Aztec Empire,152, 213

  Aztec religion,267

  Baden-Powell, Robert,336

  Baghdad,142, 151, 179

  Bai Juyi,189

  Ban Gu,69, 91

  Ban Zhao,69

  Bangladesh,341

  baskets,55

  Basque people,243

  beads,29, 34–35, 38, 46, 205, 240

  Bedouins,173

  beer.Seealcohol

  begging,183

  behavioral modernity,26–27

  Beijing,197, 262

  Belloc, Hilaire,329

  Benedict XVI, Pope,350

  Benin,151, 219

  better baby contests,317

  Bible,116, 124, 126, 256marriage in,100

  widows in,100

  bicycles,334

  Big Man societies,37, 56–57

  birth rate,320, 339, 355, 364, 369

  Black Death.Seebubonic plague

  Bligh, William,238

  blood, ideas about,39, 62, 94, 171, 268, 270, 274, 314

  boatsPaleolithic,30

  Polynesian,169

  bodhisattvas,121, 146, 194

  body modification,43

  Bolivar, Simon,280

  Borneo,326

  Boy Scouts,336

  brain size,18, 23

  Brazil,322, 344, 350, 368immigration restrictions in,316

  slavery in,252

  sugar in,251

  breast-feeding,23, 33, 37, 50

  brideservice,102

  bridewealth,101

  Brooks, Allison,27

  brothels.Seeprostitutes and prostitution

  Brunei,204

  Brunhilda, Frankish queen,150

  bubonic plague,49, 131, 202

  Buddhism,8, 118–123, 132, 152, 161Chan (Zen),193

  fundamentalism in,360

  in China,189

  in Siam,264

  in Tibet,260

  Mahayana,121, 194

  monasteries in,100

  Pure Land,193

  spread of,192–194, 205

  Tantra,192

  Theravada,122

  written texts in,85

  Buenos Aires,322

  Buganda,219

  burialsMississippian,166

  Moche,104

  Neanderthal,23

  Neolithic,57, 64

  Paleolithic,22, 27, 34–35, 38–39

  Burma,221, 360

  Burundi,367, 369, 372

  Byzantine Empire,128, 131, 144, 151, 154–155, 197–198

  cabinets of curiosity,238

  Cahokia,166, 179

  Cairo,179, 199–200

  Calcutta,292

  calendars,64Maya,82

  calico,222

  Calvin, John,257

  Cambridge,196

  Canada,297, 310, 316

  canning,304

  capitalismearly modern,224, 228

  global,363

  captivity narratives,242

  Caral,87

  carbon-14 dating,14

  Cárdenas, Lázaro,344

  Caribbean,211cash crops in,300

  coffee in,245

  colonies in,221

  cotton in,291

  migration to,324

  race in,270

  religions in,361

  slavery in,251

  Cartwright, Edmund,283

  castas,269, 271

  caste system,8, 104–108, 132, 272, 333

  Castile,196

  Catalonia,277

  cattle,50, 53, 59, 101in the Americas,239

  Cauvin, Jacques,64

  cave paintings.Seeart: rock

  celibacy, clerical,197, 256

  Ceylon,326

  Cham people,108

  Chang-an,195

  Chaplin, Charlie,334

  Chapman, Jonathan,233

  Charles I, king of England,258

  Charles II, king of England,245

  Chavin,87

  Cheyenne people,239

  child labor,290, 296, 304–305, 364

  child mortality,36, 50, 318–319, 343, 368

  childbirth, death in,36

  childrencare of,18, 28, 38, 218, 304, 307

  in ancient South Asia,95

  Paleolithic,37

  chimpanzees and bonobos,15, 59

  Chinaagriculture in,171

  Buddhism in,122, 192

  capitalism in,354

  Christianity in,266

  communism in,303

  courtly behavior in,156

  crops in,46

  development of writing in,81

  dynasties in,87

  early Homo i
n,20

  fur trade in,240

  Han dynasty,69, 89, 91, 130

  in twentieth century,344

  Ming dynasty,203, 277

  one-child policy,354, 369

  Opium Wars in,325

  population growth in,319

  potatoes in,235

  Qing dynasty,216, 221, 262

  Shang dynasty,75, 89

  silk and cotton in,288

  slavery in,110

  social revolts in,277

  Song dynasty,155, 189, 201

  sweet potatoes in,235

  Tang dynasty,152, 155, 189

  tea in,246

  tobacco in,250

  Yuan dynasty,203

  Zhou dynasty,89

  Chinggis Khan,135, 172, 174, 176

  chocolate,245

  Christianity,8, 123–128, 145, 161, 164fundamentalism in,360

  growth in Africa,360

  in China,262

  in late antiquity,132

  Nestorian,175, 189, 195

  spread of,194–198, 205, 264

  written texts in,85

  citiesin ancient world,69–79

  in contemporary world,365

  in era 500-1500,177–190

  in India,364

  industrial,293, 309

  citizenshipin ancient Athens,97, 111

  in ancient cities,78

  in ancient Rome,114

  women’s,78

  civil rights movement,347

  Civil War, American,292, 312

  class, divisions by,302–304

  climate change,30, 32, 38, 44, 131, 163, 190, 214, 318

  cloth.Seecotton production, silk production, weaving

  clothing, Paleolithic,34

  Coatlicue,267

  coca,248

  codes of behavior,156–160

  coffee,245–246

  coffee- and teahouses,245, 247, 289

  cognitive revolution,27

  Cold War,339

  colonization, early modern,218–222

  Columbian Exchange,8, 211, 233, 243, 248, 278, 281

  Columbus, Christopher,5, 205, 210, 251, 255, 262

  Comanche people,239

  comfort women,338

  commercial revolution,199

  communism,303, 332, 337, 339after World War II,348

  in China,346

  in eastern Europe,356

  confessionalization,257

  Confucianism,8, 59, 90, 132, 152, 156, 160, 201social hierarchies in,110, 122

  Confucius,69

  Congo,343

  Constantine,127, 184

  Constantinople,179, 184–185, 194, 198–200, 219

  consumer revolution,222

  contraception,38, 50, 320, 339, 364, 369–370

  Cook, James,237

  Cook Islands,237

  cooking,19–20, 22–23, 33, 55

  copper,45–46

  Coptic Church,197

  Córdoba,142, 179

  cosmetics,156

  cottage industry,288

  cotton production,283, 288–292, 298, 362

  court chronicles,152

  courtly love,158

  courts and courtly culture,148–160, 205

  crime,183

  Cromwell, Oliver,258

  crops,46, 48, 52, 54, 164–172early modern spread of,233

  Crosby, Alfred,211

  Crusades,147, 198

  Ctesiphon,179

  Cuba,300, 316, 330, 344, 348, 368

  Cueva de las Manos (Cave of the Hands),11, 39

  Cuzco,152

  Czech Republic,34

  Czechoslovakia,349

  d’Errico, Francesco,23, 27

  Dalai Lama,261

  Daoism,122

  Darwin, Charles,314

  de Mena, Luis,271

  de Vries, Jan,288

  debt peonage,300

  decolonization,340–344

  Delhi,179

  Delhi sultanate,148

  Denisovans,25

  department stores,308

  dharma,106

  Diamond, Jared,54, 164

  digital divide,371

  digital media,86

  disease,49, 52, 130, 163, 318, 365carried by armies,216, 229, 232

  early modern spread of,212

  in ancient cities,72

  in ancient world,131

  in India,342

  in industrial cities,293, 309

  sexually transmitted,307

  divorce,256among kin-based groups,103

  in ancient Babylon,96

  in ancient world,98

  in Christianity,197, 266

  in contemporary society,370

  in French Revolution,279

  in Islam,141

  DNA,14, 23, 25, 55, 216

  Dobres, Marcia-Anne,29

  dogs,48, 50, 167

  domestication,7, 64, 66of animals,48–50, 53–54

  of plants,44–46

  Dominican Republic,251

  dowries,94, 100

  Drake, Francis,221

  drug foods,243–250

  Dubois, W.E.B.,315

  Dürer, Albrecht,231

  Dutch colonization.SeeNetherlands, colonization by

  Dutch East Indies,272

  early modern, as a term,211

  East India Company,221, 249, 325

  eating habits,55courtly,151, 156

  in industrial societies,303

  Roman,112

  working class,308

  Ecuador,43

  Edward I, king of England,198

  Egyptancient,71

  dynasties in,87, 93

  gender norms in,98

  in twentieth century,342

  Mamluk,147

  marriage in,96

  slavery in,110

  Ehret, Christopher,27

  eight-hour day,310

  Eisenhower, Dwight,340

  Eisenstadt, Shmuel,115

  enclosure of land,227, 275

  endogamy,38, 63, 66, 107, 117, 370

  Englandcivil war in,258

  colonization by,221–222, 242

  industrialization in,288–295

  Reformation in,256

  sugar in,251

  tea in,247

  Enlightenment,246, 275, 277

  Equiano, Olaudah,312

  Ethiopia,26, 195, 337

  Ethiopian Christian Church,126

  ethnic cleansing,356

  ethnicity,39, 170, 268

  eugenics movement,316

  eunuchs,91

  Europeafter World War II,347

  agriculture in,170

  population growth in,319

  European Union,363

  evolution, Darwin on,314

  evolution, human,16–30, 56

  examination system in China,155, 189

  exogamy,38, 176

  Ezana of Aksum,126

  families.See alsokin groupsamong nobles,150

  among slaves,113

  and labor force participation,354

  in ancient cities and states,94–100

  in ancient kin-based societies,100–104

  in China,91, 159, 171

  in Confucianism,90

  in contemporary cities,366

  in contemporary society,370

  in imperialism,325

  in industrial societies,304, 370

  in Islam,140

  in Latin America,300

  in medieval Europe,170

  Neanderthal,23

  Neolithic,59

  of slaves,292

  Paleolithic,38

  Sikh,259

  famine,215, 217, 231early modern,275, 282

  feasts,43, 45, 55, 152

  Ferdinand of Aragon,261

  fermentation,55

  Fertile Crescent,45

  fertility figures,41, 65

  Fiji,324

  filial piety,90

  fire.See alsocookingas a danger in cities,183

  First Peoples,310

  fishing and fish trade, early modern,243

  Fl
ores, early hominids on,25

  Flour War,276

  food riots,184, 275, 279women’s role in,276

  footbinding,159

  foragers, lifeways among,32–36, 52, 61, 172

  forced labor,330

  Foucault, Michel,316

  Four Noble Truths,118

  Francecolonization by,222

  food riots in,276

  industrialization in,295

  Reformation in,257

  revolution in,278

  slavery in,312

  Freemasons,246

  Freud, Sigmund,335

  Freyre, Gilberto,322

  Frisians,200

  Fugger, Jacob,275

  Fugger family,225

  furs and fur trade,240–243, 281

  Gamble, Clive,16, 27

  gambling,181

  Gandhara,119

  Gandhi, Indira,341

  Gandhi, Mohandas,333

  Garrido, Juan,233

  gathering,32–33, 37

  gauchos,239

  gay and lesbian rights movement,350

  geisha,247

  gender hierarchiesafter World War II,350

  among Native Americans,239, 241

  early modern,282

  in ancient world,70, 101

  in China,171

  in Confucianism,91

  in hereditary dynasties,92

  in Sumer,74

  Native American,166

  Neolithic,57–62

  Paleolithic,37

  gender inversion,41

  gender norms,159–160, 163among merchants,199

  among the Mexica,186

  and education,296

  in 1950s,339

  in American Revolution,278

  in communism,348

  in French Revolution,279

  in imperialism,325

  in India,342

  in industrial societies,304, 306

  in industrializing Europe,290

  in Islam,140, 146, 358

  in Japan,346

  in Latin America,270

  in modern workplace,363

  in nineteenth century,311

  in office work,308

  in orthodox Judaism,360

  in postcolonial Africa,351

  in Protestant Reformation,256

  in religious fundamentalism,357

  in Singapore,355

  in social protests,276

  Mongol,174

  Neolithic,60

 

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