by Andrew Marr
Baron, Salo ref 1
Basil II, Emperor ref 1
Battle of Britain ref 1, ref 2
Bavaria
establishment of ‘Red Republic’ ref 1
Bay of Pigs ref 1
Beard, Mary ref 1
Bedouin ref 1, ref 2
Beethoven, Ludwig van ref 1
Beijing ref 1, ref 2
Belgium ref 1, ref 2
annexation of Congo by Leopold II ref 1, ref 2
Bellarmine, Cardinal Robert ref 1, ref 2
Belley, Jean-Baptiste ref 1
Benedict, St ref 1
Benin empire ref 1
Bennelong, Woolawarre ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Benz, Karl Friedrich ref 1
Berbers ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Berlin Blockade ref 1
Berlin Wall ref 1
fall of ref 1
Bernier, François ref 1
Bible
Luther’s translation ref 1
printing of by Gutenberg ref 1
Big Bang ref 1
Bimbisara, King ref 1
bin Laden, Osama ref 1, ref 2
Bin Tughluq, Muhammad, sultan of Delhi ref 1
Birmingham ref 1
birth control ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
invention of the Pill ref 1
birth rate ref 1
Bismarck, Chancellor ref 1
Black Death ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Black, Joseph ref 1, ref 2
blacks
impact of American Civil War on ref 1
see also slave trade/slavery
Blair, Tony ref 1
Bletchley Park ref 1
Bodhgaya ref 1
Bohr, Niels ref 1, ref 2
Bolivar, Simón ref 1
Bolsheviks ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Bonnie Prince Charlie ref 1, ref 2
Booth, John Wilkes ref 1
Boston Tea Party (1773) ref 1, ref 2
Boswell, James ref 1
Botany Bay ref 1
Boudicca, Queen ref 1
Boulton, Matthew ref 1
Bourbons ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Boxer Rising (1898–1901) ref 1, ref 2
Boyle, Robert ref 1
Brahmi script ref 1
brain, human ref 1, ref 2
Brezhnev, Leonid ref 1
Britain ref 1, ref 2
agriculture ref 1
American colonies ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
and American War of Independence (1776–81) ref 1, ref 2
colonization of Africa ref 1
comparison with Japan ref 1
and Corn Laws ref 1
and Cromwell’s republic ref 1
decline in power ref 1
defeat of by Saint-Domingue ref 1
and First World War ref 1
free press ref 1
and Great Reform Act (1832) ref 1
and imperialism ref 1, ref 2
in India ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
and industrial revolution ref 1
invasion of by William of Orange (1688) ref 1
and Napoleonic Wars ref 1
as naval and trading power ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5
Neolithic ref 1
Norman conquest ref 1
opium trade ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
and Opium Wars ref 1, ref 2
Parliament ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6
politics and industrialization ref 1
population ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
railways ref 1
and Second World War ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
and Seven Years War ref 1
slave trade ref 1
tea addiction ref 1, ref 2
and tobacco ref 1
wool trade ref 1
see also English Civil War
bronze, invention of ref 1
Bronze Age ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Brown, John ref 1
Bruno, Giordano ref 1, ref 2
Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama) ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Buddhism ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
Bulgaria ref 1, ref 2
Bulgars ref 1
bull leaping, Minoan ref 1
Bullock, Alan ref 1
bureaucracy
Chinese ref 1, ref 2
German ref 1
burials
ancient China ref 1, ref 2
Neolithic ref 1
Burke, Edmund ref 1
Burton, Richard ref 1
Bush, George W. ref 1
Byblos ref 1
Byzantium ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
art ref 1
collapse and fall of Constantinople ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
comparison with China ref 1
court procedures and rituals ref 1
extent of empire ref 1
founding ref 1, ref 2
Fourth Crusade against ref 1
religion and spirituality ref 1
use of ‘Greek fire’ ref 1
and Vikings ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
Caesar, Julius ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
assassination (44 bc) ref 1
and calendar ref 1
and Cleopatra ref 1
conquest of Rome ref 1
defeat of Pompey ref 1
destruction of Gauls ref 1, ref 2
growth in cult of ref 1
military campaigns ref 1
political career ref 1
Caesarion ref 1, ref 2
Cairo ref 1
Cajamarca (Peru) ref 1, ref 2
calendar
Celtic ref 1
and French Revolutionaries ref 1
Mayan ref 1
naming of days of the week ref 1
Roman ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Caligula, Emperor ref 1
Calvin, John ref 1
Cambodia ref 1
camels, domestication of ref 1
Cameron, Verney Lovett ref 1
Canaan/Canaanites ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
canals
British ref 1
Chinese ref 1
Canary Islands
Spanish colonization ref 1
Cannae, battle of (216 BC) ref 1
cannibalism
and Neanderthals ref 1
Cantor, Norman ref 1
Cape Verde islands ref 1
capitalism ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8, ref 9
car, development of ref 1
carbon dioxide emissions ref 1
Caribbean ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5
Carnegie, Andrew ref 1
Carthage ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Casement, Roger ref 1
Castleden, Rodney ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Castro, Fidel ref 1
Catalhoyuk ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Catherine the Great ref 1, ref 2
Catholics/Catholicism ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7
Counter-Reformation ref 1
and Spanish Inquisition ref 1, ref 2
cave art ref 1, ref 2
Ceau¸sescu, Nicolae ref 1
Celts ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Central Intelligence Agency see CIA
CFC gasses ref 1
Chandragupta ref 1
Chang, Jung ref 1, ref 2
Chaplin, Charlie ref 1
chariots ref 1
West African ref 1
Charlemagne ref 1
Charles I, King ref 1
Charles II, King ref 1
Charles II of Spain ref 1
Charles V, Emperor ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7
Charles X, King of France ref 1
Chartists ref 1
Châtelet, Émile du ref 1
Chernenko, Konstantin ref 1
chess ref 1
Cheyenne ref 1, ref 2
Chiang Kai-shek ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
children
employment of in factories ref 1
Chile ref 1
Ch’in dynasty ref 1, re
f 2, ref 3, ref 4
China, ancient ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6
agriculture ref 1, ref 2
architecture ref 1
attempts to control flooding by first dynasty ref 1
and Buddhism ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
burials ref 1, ref 2
canal system ref 1
cities ref 1, ref 2
civil war ref 1
and Confucius (Kongzi) ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6
and Da Yu ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
dynasties ref 1
Han ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
human development ref 1
internal conflict and semi-anarchy after breakup of Han state ref 1
and Legalism ref 1
links with Roman Empire ref 1
mythical emperors ref 1
religion and religious rites ref 1, ref 2
rituals ref 1
Shang dynasty ref 1, ref 2
and smallpox ref 1
Xia dynasty ref 1, ref 2
and Zheng ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
Zhou dynasty ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
China (modern) ref 1, ref 2
arrest of Gang of Four (1976) ref 1
and Boxer Rising (1898–1901) ref 1, ref 2
and bureaucracy ref 1
Communist-Nationalist conflict ref 1
comparison with Byzantium ref 1
Cultural Revolution ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
economic growth ref 1
and God Worshippers ref 1
Great Leap Forward ref 1, ref 2
gunpowder invention ref 1
and industrialization ref 1
inventions ref 1
Japanese invasions ref 1, ref 2
Long March ref 1, ref 2
Manchu conquest and rule ref 1
Mandate of Heaven ref 1
and Mao Zedong’s ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5
Marco Polo’s travels to ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
military forces ref 1, ref 2
Ming dynasty ref 1, ref 2
Mongol conquest of and rule ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
navy ref 1
opium trade ref 1
and Opium Wars ref 1, ref 2
Qing dynasty ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Rape of Nanking (1938) ref 1
relations with Soviet Union ref 1
relations with United States ref 1
and Second World War ref 1
Song dynasty ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
and Taiping Rebellion (1850–64) ref 1, ref 2
Tang dynasty ref 1
Tiananmen Square protest (1989) ref 1, ref 2
trade with Muslims ref 1
under Deng Xiaoping ref 1
Yuan dynasty ref 1
China Welfare Fund for the Disabled ref 1
Chinese, origins of ref 1
Chinese Communist Party ref 1, ref 2
Chittor, siege of (1567–8) ref 1
Christianity/Christians ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8, ref 9
advancement of by Constantine ref 1
conversion of the Rus ref 1
and Crusades ref 1
growth and spread of ref 1, ref 2
Lutheran ref 1
and martyrdom ref 1
missionaries ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5
Muslim coastal slave-taking ref 1
outlawing of in Japan ref 1
and Romans ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
spread of by St Paul ref 1, ref 2
triumph of ref 1
Chronicle of Past Times ref 1
Churchill, Sarah (Duchess of Marlborough) ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Churchill, Winston ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5
CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) ref 1, ref 2
Cicero ref 1, ref 2
cities
ancient China ref 1, ref 2
ancient India ref 1
birth of first ref 1
city-states, Greek ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
civil engineering ref 1
Cixi, dowager empress ref 1
Claudius, Emperor ref 1
clay tablets ref 1
Cleisthenes ref 1
Cleitus, General ref 1
Clement IV, Pope ref 1
Cleopatra ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5
and Antony ref 1, ref 2
and Caesar ref 1
suicide ref 1
climate change ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
and collapse of Roman Empire and Han China ref 1
and early agriculture ref 1, ref 2
and emergence of first cities ref 1
and origins of humans ref 1
Clive, Robert ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Code Napoléon ref 1
Coeur-de-Lion, Richard ref 1
coinage
Britain ref 1
Lydian ref 1
Cold War ref 1
Coligny Calendar ref 1
Colossi of Memnon ref 1
Colossus machines ref 1
Colton, Frank ref 1
Columbus, Christopher ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
Communism ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
fall of (1989) ref 1
Communist Manifesto, The ref 1
computers ref 1
Comstock Act (1873) ref 1
Comstock, Anthony ref 1
Confucianism ref 1
Confucius (Kongzi) ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6
Congo
annexation of by Leopold II of Belgium ref 1, ref 2
Congo Reform Association ref 1
Conrad, Joseph ref 1
Constantine the Great ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Constantine VII ref 1
Constantine XI Palaeologus, Emperor ref 1, ref 2
Constantinople ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5
fall of to Turks (1453) ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
sacking of by Fourth Crusaders ref 1
Continental Congress ref 1
contraception see birth control
convicts
transportation to Australia ref 1
Cook, Captain James ref 1, ref 2