by Morris, Ian;
Aristides, 280
Aristotle, 260, 268, 324, 370, 468, 537
Arkwright, Richard, 496
Armenia, 328
Army, U.S., 537, 539, 618
War College, 615
Around the World in Eighty Days (Verne), 507, 511
Arzawa, 198
Ashoka, 263
Ashur-dan II, King, 235–37
Ashurnasirpal II, King, 236–37
Asian Tigers, 543, 546
Asimov, Isaac, 92–93, 577, 580–81, 614
Assad, Lake (Syria), 90, 94, 96, 101
Assassins, 367
Assaye, battle of, 489
Assyria, 219, 239, 243, 249, 262, 276–79, 369, 445, 528, 610
collapse of, 220
Hittites and, 197–99
language of, 138, 214
revival as gangster state of, 235–37
Tigllath-Pileser III’s rule of, 245–48, 303, 316, 335, 567
Astounding Science Fiction (magazine), 93
Atahualpa, King, 460
Atapuerca (Spain), 54–56
Atenism, 261–62
Athens, 240, 241, 250, 256, 260, 268, 296, 524
atomic bomb, see nuclear weapons
Attila, 315–16
Auel, Jean, 57, 69
Augustus, Emperor, 283–85, 313, 320
Austen, Jane, 572
Australia, 16, 68, 70, 75, 77, 159, 410, 519, 520, 602
Austria, 446, 448, 526, 528
Avars, 349
Avignon (France), 398, 401
Axial thought, 285, 322
first-wave, 254–56, 259–63, 329, 562, 569
Renaissance compared to, 420, 476
second-wave, 324, 325–27, 330, 351, 353, 463
social development and, 271
Aztecs, 139, 433, 515
Ba’ath Party, 90
Babylon, 138, 197–200, 214, 215, 219–21, 247–51, 278, 349
Back to the Future (film), 572
backwardness, advantages of, 34, 36, 179, 195, 196, 217, 241, 332, 404, 552, 564, 584, 619
for Arab migrants, 351
in China, 207, 264, 334, 562, 585, 587, 615
Habsburgs and, 466
in Japan, 584
for Mongols, 389
for Muslim world, 571
for Macedonians, 268
in Mesopotamia, 499, 561
for Romans, 264
in Soviet Union, 530
in United States, 510
Bacon, Francis, 468–69, 473
Bactria, 271, 292
Baghdad, 357–59, 362, 364, 366, 370, 391, 401
Bai Juyi, 355–56
Balkans, 310, 313–15, 348, 401, 431, 526, 605
“Ballad of East and West, The” (Kipling), 620–21
Baltic region, 112–14, 127–29, 310, 466
Bamboo Annals, 232
Bank of England, 530
Bao Si, 242–43, 355
Barbegal (France), 287
Barker, Graeme, 107
Basiliskos, 316, 317
Battle of the Red Cliffs, The (film), 304
Beijing, 201, 265n, 441, 432, 465, 478, 482, 483, 523, 588–90, 605
Boxer Rebellion in, 211
Britain and, 506, 515, 517, 518
culture in, 436
fall of, 453, 454
Forbidden City in, 205, 528
Gorbachev in, 549
Imperial Academy in, 210
Mongol burning of, 389
Nixon in, 546–47
population of, 152, 482n
wages in, 438, 501, 502
Belgium, 160, 446, 510
Belgrade, bombing of Chinese embassy in, 605
Belisarius, 345, 346
Belize, 121
Bell, Alexander Graham, 567
Belloc, Hilaire, 12
Benedict XIII, Pope, 401
Bentley, Edmund, 29
Benz, Karl, 510
Berlin Wall, 550
Bible, 81n
New Testament, 14, 255, 325
Old Testament, see Hebrew Bible
Bierce, Ambrose, 26
Bin Wong, 18
Birmingham University, 22
Black Death, see bubonic plague
Black Hand, 526, 605
Blombos Cave (Africa), 64
Blue Gene supercomputers, 596
Bodhisattvas, 322, 329
Bohemia, 368
Bolivia, 460
Bolsheviks, 528
Bombay–Calcutta railroad, 507
Bonesetter’s Daughter, The (Tan), 51
Boniface VIII, Pope, 398
Boniface IX, Pope, 401
Book of Changes, 479
Book of Lord Shang, 257
Book of Martyrs (Fox), 436
Borneo, 127
Boswell, James, 490–91, 495
Botox, 594
Boulton, Matthew, 491–93, 495–97, 502, 504, 567, 568, 573
Bourbons, 551
Boxer Rebellion, 211, 525
Boyne, battle of, 20
Brain Interface Project, 595
Brando, Marlon, 520n
Brazil, 430, 520
Brezhnev, Leonid, 542
Britain, 33, 35, 39–40, 158, 347, 398, 404, 451, 466–70, 472, 521, 525, 534–37, 553, 608, 610, 611, 615
American colonies of, 463–64
China and, 7–15, 25, 40, 143, 145, 147–48, 211, 484, 506, 515–18, 520, 524, 572–73
Christianity in, 353
civil service of, 339n;
Civil War in, 452–53
emigration to North America from, 509
Enlightenment thought in, 468–73
exploration and, 416
farming in, 290, 368–69
French wars against, 486–89, 500
Habsburgs and, 461
India and, 7, 273–75, 339n, 495
industrial revolution in, 13, 19–21, 25, 40, 379, 382, 494–98, 500, 501–507, 510–12, 572, 597, 620
Ireland and, 450, 451, 505
medieval, 194
plague in, 397
prehistoric, 80, 189
privateers from, 462–63
Renaissance in, 419
Roman, 274, 290, 307, 311, 314, 320
Royal Navy of, 148, 511, 517
social development of, 147–49, 157, 159–60, 163, 168
trade of, 466–67, 485
Victorian, 136, 506, 513
Vikings in, 371
and World Wars, 528–29
British Broadcasting Company (BBC), 475
British East India Company, 7, 484, 515
bronze, 208–10, 212–14, 221, 231–34, 410
for coins, 251, 377–78
for ritual vessels, 208, 210, 212, 221, 231–33, 243
for tools, 181, 234
for weapons, 128, 181, 191, 200, 208, 234, 396
Brunelleschi, Filippo, 438
bubonic plague (Black Death), 396–401, 420, 437, 505, 520, 574, 603
in Byzantium, 346–48
in China, 355, 397, 401, 405
in Europe, 397–99, 427, 438, 446, 447, 455, 466, 467, 506
in Islamic nations, 397, 398
Buddha, 255, 256, 262, 274, 322, 324, 375–76, 398, 404–405, 440
Buddhism, 255, 256, 263, 351, 357, 393, 395, 420, 437, 525, 563
in Bactria, 271
in China, 321–23, 326, 328–29, 334, 339–42, 375–76, 378, 419, 423–24, 478, 543, 546
Christianity compared with, 324–28
in Japan, 440
Mahayana, 322, 324, 325
Bulgaria, 313
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 608
Bush, George W., 588
Business Week, 553
Byzantine Empire, 317, 343–49, 363, 373, 457, 566, 616
Arabs and, 352, 356–57
religious conflicts in, 352, 361–62
Turkic attacks on, 366, 372, 401, 403
Caboto, Giovanni (John Cabot), 416, 417, 430
Caesar, Julius, 228, 283, 419
/> Caffa (Crimea), 397
Cairo (Egypt), 359n, 364, 371, 392
Calicut (India), 429, 431
California, University of; Davis, 19
Irvine, 18, 20
Los Angeles, 18n
California Institute of Technology, 18n
“California School” of history, 19–20
Caligula, Emperor, 307
Calvinism, 448
Cambodia, 360
Cambridge University, 23, 107, 365, 475–76, 581
Cambyses, King, 249
Canada, 601
Candide (Voltaire), 280
Cann, Rebecca, 71
Cao Cao, 303–304
Cao Xueqin, 503
Carlson, Robert, 596n
Carlson’s Curve, 596
Carlyle, Thomas, 472
Carpenter’s Gap (Australia), 77
Carthage, 242, 250, 268, 270, 315–17, 345
Casanova, Giovanni Giacomo, 540
Çatalhöyük (Turkey), 100, 102, 105, 123, 124
Catholicism, 20, 362, 372, 398–99, 401, 404, 448, 453, 477–78
Cavalli-Sforza, Luca, 110–12
Çayönü (Turkey), 102–103, 105, 125
Chang, Kwang-chih, 124, 125, 204, 205, 208
Chang’an (China), 153, 289, 293n, 298–99, 305, 306, 321, 337–38, 340, 342, 355, 359, 377
Chariots of the Gods? (von Däniken), 182, 410
Charlemagne, 362–63, 370, 403n, 446
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 446–49, 573
Chauvet Cave (France), 74–77, 79
Cheng, King, 230, 232
Chengdu (China), 334, 605
Chennai (India), 274
Chen Zilong, 473n
Chernobyl disaster, 549
Chicago, 509, 604
Chicago, University of, 23
Childe, Gordon, 233
China, 17–20, 23, 24, 345, 449, 494, 514, 528, 538, 568, 604, 608–12
ancient, 34, 122–26, 137, 201–15, 220–23, 228–38, 240, 242–45, 251–53, 261, 278–79, 311, 318, 562 (see also Qin)
Boxer rebellion in, 525
Britain and, 7–15, 25, 40, 143, 145, 147–48, 211, 484, 506, 515–18, 520, 524, 572–73
Buddhism in, 321–23, 326, 328–29, 334, 339–42, 375–76, 378, 419, 423–24, 478, 543, 546
carbon emissions in, 18, 155, 609
Christians in, 10, 342, 397, 477–79
civil service in, 439–40
Communist, 62n, 149, 212, 534–35, 543–49, 579, 588, 606
Confucianism in, see Confucius
Confucianism; economy of, 359–61, 377–80, 386–88, 404, 438, 439–40, 450, 502, 547–49, 551–53, 567, 578, 582, 585–91, 615
energy consumption in, 380–82, 493, 604, 612
Enlightenment intellectuals in, 472–77
epidemics in, 296, 297, 301, 304, 305, 308, 355, 392, 396–97, 473, 603
European trade with, 33, 275–76, 384–85, 392, 395–96, 432–33, 435, 461–62, 484, 520–22 (see also Silk Roads)
farming in, 32, 114, 117, 119–22, 127, 201, 208, 222, 232, 238, 265, 287, 290, 298–99, 305, 317, 319, 334–36, 338, 369, 377, 405, 406, 499, 516, 522, 544, 548, 561
footbinding in, 424–25
Grand Canal of, 6, 337, 368, 380, 465, 493, 506, 517, 563; Han, see Han dynasty
Japan and, 15, 52, 211, 306, 360, 361, 411, 441–43, 475, 531, 533
Ming, see Ming dynasty
modernization of, 522–24
Mongol conquest of, 388–91, 396, 398, 400, 401, 404–407, 416–18, 575, 576
nomad incursions in, 293–95, 298, 299–307, 310, 314, 315, 345, 349, 354
ocean voyages of, 16–17, 407–10, 413–14, 416, 426, 427, 429
piracy on coast of, 442, 485
population of, 17, 19, 201, 206, 237, 238, 242, 243, 286, 289, 298, 307, 355, 377, 392, 440, 484, 544, 547, 585
prehistoric, 50–56, 72, 79, 86, 97; Qing, see Qing dynasty
Renaissance thought in, 418–22, 426
reunification of, 336–37, 345, 346, 362, 373
Romans and, 271, 273, 275–76
Russia and, 455–59, 482
science in, 475–81
social development of, 34, 35, 158–59, 167–69, 262, 332–42, 359, 382, 384, 426, 481–83, 522, 569, 597; Song, see Song dynasty
technology in, 395–96, 496, 497
United States and, 518, 546–47, 585–88, 604–606
urbanization in, 152–53 (see also specific cities);
warlords in, 51, 211, 283, 284, 302–304, 354–57, 453, 458; see also Beijing
China Daily, 72, 605
China Youth Journal, 544
Christianity, 14, 41, 357, 431, 446, 472, 513, 563, 567
in Africa, myth of, 414
Arab converts to, 349
in Axial thought, 256, 324–25
and Black Death, 397–99
in China, 10, 342, 397, 478–79
Crusades and, 19, 372–73, 427
holiest relics of, 348
Islam and, 351–54, 360, 361, 373
in medieval Europe, 83, 362, 363, 365, 368–72, 382
Mongols and, 389, 391, 393, 395, 401
Ottomans and, 403, 444
in Roman Empire, 263, 323, 326–28
schism within, 447–49
Christmas Carol, A (Dickens), 170, 584
Chronicle of Chinese Emperors, The (Paludan), 283n
Chu (China), 244–45, 251, 253, 262, 265n, 524
Chuci, 293n
Churchill, Winston, 13, 266, 511, 534, 579
Cialis, 594
Cicero, 420, 482
Cimmerians, 277
Cishan (China), 122
Civil War, U.S., 10
Cixi, Dowager Empress, 523
Clan of the Cave Bear (Auel), 57–59, 69
Clarissa (Richardson), 503
Clarke, Arthur C., 63, 149, 182, 194
Cleese, John, 286
Clement XI, Pope, 479
Cleopatra, 283, 284
climate change, 97, 180, 206, 218, 238, 290, 418–20, 451, 604, 610
prehistoric, 54n, 56, 64, 67
social development and, 223–25, 277, 304, 459, 560, 562, 611; see also global warming
coal, 287, 290, 451, 482, 506, 511, 524, 537, 561, 592, 611
in China, 155, 287, 374, 381–82, 387, 392, 493, 545
industrialization and, 11, 20, 21, 100, 379, 494–95, 498, 500, 510
transportation powered by, 147, 507–508, 565
Coca-Cola Corporation, 548
Cohn-Bendit, Daniel, 106