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by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks

gender wage gap,363

  Genesis, Book of,1, 49

  Genoa,201

  Georgia, early Homo in,21

  Germanic peoples,101

  Germanyideas about race in,318

  industrialization in,297

  Nazi,337

  Reformation in,255

  Ghana,329–330, 343

  Ghana, Mali, and Songhai,145

  gladiators,112

  Glasgow,249

  global history,6

  globalization,2, 363, 366

  Glorious Revolution,258

  Goa,218

  goats and sheep,48, 53

  Göbekli Tepe,50

  gods and goddesses,65, 73

  Goody, Jack,84

  Goths,126, 128

  Great Depression,336

  great divergence,302

  Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution,346

  Greece,52, 78, 88

  Greek philosophy,142

  Green Revolution,342

  grinding,33, 44

  griots,85

  Guaman Poma de Ayala, Felipe,162

  Guangzhou,222

  Guanyin,121

  Guditjmara people,172

  guildscraft,180

  merchant,189

  Guinea-Bissau,351

  Gujarat,222, 226

  gunpowder empires,229

  gunpowder weapons,228

  Gupta Empire,130

  Guyana,324

  Habermas, Jürgen,246

  Hagia Sophia,184

  hair,19, 39

  Haiti,280, 312, 361

  Hakka people,235

  Hallan Çemi,44

  Hamiko,93

  Hammurabi’s Code,62, 81, 96

  Hangzhou,183, 188–190

  Harappa,77

  Hatshepsut,93

  Hawai‘i,31, 169, 324, 330

  Hebrews,116

  Henry VIII, king of England,256

  hereditary dynasties,70, 73, 131, 148in ancient world,88–94

  in Sumer,73

  Herodotus,1

  hijra,138

  Hinduism,8, 106, 108, 138, 144, 146, 194, 205courts in,156

  fundamentalism in,358

  Hispaniola,212

  Hitler, Adolf,337

  Ho Chi Minh,332, 348

  Hodgson, Marshall,229

  Holy Roman Empire,229

  hominids, non- and pre-human,14–25

  Homo, evolution of genus,17–25

  homosexuality.Seesame-sex relations

  Hong Liangji,320

  horsesamong the Mongols,173

  domestication of,53

  in the Americas,239

  Huayna Capac,213

  Hudson’s Bay Company,242, 297

  humanism,128

  Hungary,348

  Huns,128, 130, 172

  hunting,32, 37, 52by Inuit,172

  by women,33

  Huron people,241

  Ibn Battuta,190, 203

  Ibn Saud, Abdul Aziz,333

  Iceland,196

  iconoclastic controversy,197

  Ike no Taiga,236

  Ilkhanate,135, 146

  immigration, restrictions on,315–316, 321, 324

  Immigration Restriction League,315

  imperialism,324–331

  Inca Empire,85, 152, 162, 167, 213

  incest taboos,36

  income inequality,354

  indentured laborers,324

  India,286cities in,364

  cotton production in,288, 292

  courtly behavior in,156

  demographic trends in,369

  gender norms in,99

  Hindu nationalism in,358

  in twentieth century,341

  independence movement in,333

  migration from,324

  population growth in,319

  slavery in,202

  Indonesia,62, 334

  Indus River Valley,48, 77

  industrialization,286–302and imperialism,328

  and World War I,331

  in Japan,298–300

  in Soviet Union,337

  in USA,332

  Nehru on,286

  industrious revolution,288

  infanticide,38, 311

  informal economy,362

  information technologies,371

  inheritanceamong nobles,149

  bilateral,103

  by women,163

  in Andes,166

  in China,89

  in Islam,141

  in Sumer,74

  matrilineal,101

  systems of,61–62

  intermarriage,102among ethnic groups in Europe,170

  by fur traders,241–242

  by merchants,199

  in China,269

  in colonial world,282

  in contemporary world,370

  in Dutch colonies,272

  in French colonies,272

  in Latin America,269, 316, 322

  in Mongol Empire,176

  in North America,273

  in port cities,264

  in Southeast Asia,322

  in West Africa,272

  prohibitions on,316

  with Muslim traders,145

  Inuit people,172

  Iran,342, 357

  Iraq,333, 357

  Ireland,170, 321potato famine in,291

  potatoes in,234

  revolts in,277

  iron,77, 167in industry,293

  Iroquois Wars,241

  irrigation,73–74

  Isabella of Castile,261

  Isfahan,219

  Islam,161code of behavior in,157

  development and spread of,136–146

  fundamentalism in,357–358

  in China,189

  in Mongol Empire,176

  in West Africa,328

  sectarian violence in,360

  Shi’a,141, 146, 259

  slavery in,202

  spread of,204

  Sunni,142, 262

  written texts in,85

  Ismail, Shah,258

  Israel,19–20, 28, 342, 358

  Istanbul,219, 227

  Italy,128, 194, 216, 337

  Jamaica,361

  Japan,34after World War II,346

  authoritarianism in,337

  Buddhism in,189, 192

  Christianity in,262

  courtly behavior in,156

  demographic trends in,369

  eating in,303

  empire building by,330

  food riots in,276

  gender norms in,304

  gender wage gap in,363

  in World War II,338

  industrialization in,298

  migration from,324

  Nara,152

  population growth in,319

  prestige goods in,224

  revolts in,277

  rulers in,93

  schools in,155

  silk and cotton in,288

  tea in,247

  Tokugawa,221, 230

  women’s suffrage in,311

  women’s work in,306

  Jaspers, Karl,115

  Java,222, 245, 326early Homo in,20

  Jefferson, Thomas,250, 280

  Jenne-jeno,75

  Jerusalem,198

  Jesuits,257, 264

  Jesus Christ,123, 138

  Jewsattacks on,184

  in Israel,342

  in medieval Europe,198

  in Spain,206

  marriage among,100

  Nazi extermination of,338

  persecution of,227, 262

  Jim Crow laws,312

  Jingu,93

  joint-stock companies,228

  Jordan,333

  Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin,267

  Judaism,8, 116, 123, 138fundamentalism in,358

  in China,189

  Julius Caesar,114

  Justinian,184

  kabuki theatre,247

  Kanishka the Great,121

  Kant, Immanuel,275

  Kanzi (bonobo),15–16

  Katib Chelebi,249

  Kemal, Mus
tafa,333

  Kenya,22, 324, 330, 343

  Khadija,137, 140

  Khanbaliq,177, 190, 202

  khipu,126

  Khmer kingdom,151

  Khoisan,101

  Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah,357

  Khubilai Khan,174, 190, 203, 261

  Kimpa Vita, Beatriz,266

  kin groups.See alsofamiliesamong early modern merchants,225

  among Mongols,174

  Andean,166

  in ancient world,70, 101–104

  Neolithic,57, 63

  Paleolithic,29, 36–39

  Klein, Richard,26

  Ko, Dorothy,159

  Kongo,219Christianity in,266

  Konoike Shinroku family,225

  Korea,221, 330, 367Buddhism in,189, 192

  economic growth in,355

  Silla,152

  tea in,247

  Korean War,346

  Krupp family,297

  Kush,126

  Kushans,119, 130

  labor, division ofamong the gods,65

  by race,306, 363

  by sex,33, 51, 167, 243, 252, 306–307, 330, 339, 344, 362

  in ancient cities,80

  slave and free,109

  within communities,46

  labor, ideas about,107, 362

  labor force participation by women,354, 358

  labor unions,310, 362in Poland,355

  women’s,311

  lactation.Seebreast-feeding

  Lagos,365

  Lakota people,239

  language,27–28, 39

  Latin Americacash crops in,300

  immigration to,322

  in twentieth century,344

  religious diversity in,361

  women’s protests in,351

  law codes,57, 62, 70, 81about families and sex,96

  about slavery,110

  canon law,128

  Hebrew,117

  in ancient Egypt,98

  in ancient world,105

  in India,107

  in Sumer,74

  Mosaic,140

  Muslim,245

  Roman,114

  shari’a,138, 144, 357

  slaves in,115

  League of Nations,332

  Lebanon,333

  leisure activities,308

  Lenin, Vladimir,332

  Leopold II, King of Belgium,328

  Li Zicheng,277

  liberalism,296

  liberation theology,349–350

  Liberia,328

  Lidar,72

  Linnaeus, Carl,274

  Little Ice Age,215

  Liverpool,293

  Livingstone, David,329

  llamas,54

  Lodge, Henry Cabot,315

  Lokaksema,121

  London,183, 245food riots in,276

  gin drinking in,248

  tobacco merchants in,249

  Lopez, Alma,268

  Louis VII, king of France,147

  Louis XVI, king of France,278

  love poetry,96, 157

  Loyola, Ignatius,257

  Lü, Empress Dowager,91

  Luba,85

  Luddites,290

  lukasa (memory boards),85

  Lusotropicalism,322

  Luther, Martin,255

  luxury goods.Seeprestige goods

  Macao,219

  Madagascar,102

  Madeira,206, 251

  malaria,278, 318, 328–329

  Malaya,326

  Mali,75

  Malthus, Thomas,320

  Mamluks,146–148, 197–198

  Manchester,290

  Manchus,216

  Mandate of Heaven,89

  mandate system,333

  Mande societies,85

  Mandela, Nelson,351

  Mandinka people,329

  Manetho,88

  Manusmrti (Laws of Manu),99

  Mao Zedong,344

  Maori people,237

  Marco Polo,190, 203, 206

  Marie-Antoinette, queen of France,235

  marketsin Constantinople,185

  in Hangzhou,190

  in Tenochtitlan,186

  urban,181

  marriageamong Central Asian nomads,100

  among Mongols,176

  among pastoralists,101

  among rulers,89, 150, 219

  as a tool of politics,92

  endogamous,39

  in ancient world,94–96

  in Christianity,124, 196, 266

  in Islam,140

  in Latin America,272

  in northwestern Europe,290

  levirate,100

  Neolithic,62

  of school teachers,307

  temporary,272

  marriage contracts,95

  Marx, Karl,302

  masculinity.Seegender norms

  Mauritius,324

  Mauryan Empire,118

  Mayacity-states,72, 130

  rulers among,93

  writing,82

  McBrearty, Sally,27

  McIntosh, Rod and Susan,77

  McLuhan, Marshall,84

  meat eating,17–19, 32

  Mecca,137, 219

  Medici family,210, 225

  megafaunal extinction,32

  megaliths,64

  Meiji Restoration,298

  Melaka,145, 219, 222

  Mendes (Nasi) family,227

  Mercator, Gerardus,211

  merchants.Seetrade

  Mesoamerica,43, 46cities in,71

  development of writing in,81

  trade routes in,204

  Mesopotamia,59, 71, 78

  Methodism,309

  Mexica people,185

  Mexican Revolution,300

  Mexico,213, 233, 350, 368industrialization in,344

  revolts in,277

  Mexico City,310

  microwear analysis,14

  migrationamong early Homo,20–21

  Austronesian,102, 167

  by Bantu-speaking people,167

  by Han Chinese,235

  by slaves,292

  early modern,282

  encouraged by rulers,161

  in classical world,131

  in Latin America,300

  in medieval Europe,170

  in Middle Millennium,205

  in Mongol Empire,176

  in nineteenth and twentieth centuries,321–324

  Neolithic,52, 65

  Paleolithic,30, 48

  to cities,72, 365

  within the USA,347

  military-industrial complex,340

  mining,109, 113, 218, 305–306early modern,275

  in Africa,330

  in Americas,218

  in Latin America,300

  missionaries,264, 281, 325–326in Latin America,361

  Methodist,309

  Mississippi Valley,165

  Moche,87, 104

  modernism,334

  Mohenjo-Daro,77, 310

  Mokyr, Joel,295

  Moluccas,201

  Mombasa,145

  monasticismin Buddhism,118, 122, 192, 260

  in Christianity,127, 195–196

  Mongols,5, 135, 172–177, 190, 202–203, 301

  monotheism,117

  Montague, Mary Wortley,217

  Montezuma I,152

  Moravia,195

  Mormonism,361

  Morocco,28

  Moses,117

  Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo,351

  mound culture,166

  Mughal Empire,219, 229, 262, 325

  Muhammad,136–138

  Murad IV, Ottoman sultan,245

  Murasaki Shikibu,157

  musiccourtly,151, 156

  in 1920s,334

  in 1960s,349

  in Caribbean,361

  in coffeehouses,245

  in Islam,144

  in Japan,247

  in Latin America,322

  in medieval cities,183

  in Renaissance Europe,225

  in Soviet Union,337

  Muslims.SeeIslam

  N
abta Playa,64

  Nalanda monastery,192, 194

  Nan Singh,263

  Nanak,259

  Napoleon,180, 279, 295

  Narai, king of Siam,264

  Nasi, Gracia,227

  nationalism,295–296and imperialism,329

  and World War I,331

  in India,358

  Native Americansand horses,281

  family life among,273

  in nineteenth century,297

  nature, ideas about,164

  Nazi movement,318

  Ndebele people,329

  Neanderthals,22–25, 30

  Nehru, Jawaharlal,286, 333, 341, 371

  neoliberalism,352–354, 363

  Neolithic era,7, 13

  Nepal,108

  Nestorius,195

  Netherlands,372colonization by,221, 245

  globalization in,367

  potatoes in,234

  Reformation in,257

  toleration in,264

  New France,222

  New Julfa,225

  New World, as a term,211

  New Zealand,32, 169, 316, 321sweet potatoes in,237

  Newcastle,293

  Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso,261

  Nicot, Jean,249

  Niebelungenlied,150

  Nigeria,360, 365

  Nile River Valley,46cities in,71

  Nilotes,101

  Nkrumah, Kwame,343

  nobles,149, 154–155, 163among the Mexica,188

  in industrial societies,302

  in Russia,219

  Russian,232

  Non-Aligned Nations Movement,341

  North Americaagriculture in,165

  fur trade in,240

  Northern Ireland,360

  Norway,196

  Novgorod,240

  Nuremberg,181

  Odoacer,128

  Olaf II, king of Norway,196

  Öljaitü,135, 137, 146

  Olmecs,75, 81

  One Thousand and One Nights,158

  Ong, Walter,84

  opium,249, 325–326

  oracle bones,81

  oral traditions,85, 132, 161, 282

  Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries,352

  Orthodox Christianity,195

  Ottoman Empire,229, 262, 281, 331–332smoking in,249

  Owen, Wilfred,331

  Oxford,196

  Pacific islands,31, 167

  painting.Seeart

  Pakistan,341

  Paleolithic era,4, 7, 13

  Palestine,333, 342

  pan-Africanism,343

  papacy,149, 194, 198

  Papua New Guinea,39, 46, 53, 237

  Paris,179, 183, 196, 245department stores in,308

  French Revolution in,279

  urban renewal in,310

  Parmentier, Antoine-Auguste,235

  pastoralism,53nomadic in Asia,172

 

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