by Ian Morris
Weingast, Barry, 206
Wei Zhuang, 141–42
Wells, H. G., 379; “The Land Ironclads,” 249
West Africa, 196, 203
Western way of war, 82, 104, 108, 336, 337; fallacy of concept of, 65–66, 120, 174–75, 252, 388
West Germany, 276–77, 284, 328, 330, 354, 355
White Rajahs, 167
Whitfield, Norman, 395n
Why Nations Fail (Acemoglu and Robinson), 232
Why the West Rules—for Now (Morris), 20, 75, 109, 203, 378, 381
Wilhelm II, Kaiser of Germany, 244, 245, 251, 254, 255, 264, 359, 392
William the Conqueror, 135, 139
William Louis, Count of Nassau, 186, 186–87
Williams, John, 60
Wilson, Woodrow, 257
Winning the War on War (Goldstein), 15
Wolfe, Thomas, 406n
World Bank, 334, 363
World Until Yesterday, The (Diamond), 15
World War I, 13, 235–38, 244–55, 259, 268, 324, 338; artillery bombardments in, 273; death toll of, 14, 235–36, 267, 271; financing of, 23, 271; Hitler’s strategy influenced by, 264–66; outbreak of, 10
World War II, 19, 53, 54, 264–71, 278, 324, 338; death toll of, 13, 14, 236, 238, 266–67, 270, 271, 273, 369; financing of, 23, 271–72; Indian army in, 224; outbreak of, 10, 12, 259, 265–66
Wrangham, Richard, 290, 302, 308–309, 318
Wudi, Emperor of China 118, 120
Xiangyang, 144
Xinjiang, 183
Xiongnu nomads, 118–21, 130
Xiphilinos, Ioannis, 399n
Xuanquan, 116
Yamato (Japan), 151
Yang Xuanzhi, 139–40
Yangzi Delta, 184
Yangzi Valley, 169, 176
Yanomami, 55–60, 81, 84, 139, 290
yellow fever, 196, 220
Yemen, 153, 349, 372
Yerkes, Robert, 305
Yin Shang, 69
York, Duke of, 191
Yorktown, British surrender at, 213
Young Bengal Movement, 231
Younger Dryas age, 76n
Yuezhi peoples, 120–21
Yugoslavia, 40
Yunnan, 115
Zhao, state of, 105–106
Zhejiang, 115
Zheng, King of Qin, see Shihuangdi, First Emperor
Zheng He, 178
Zhou tribes, 97
Zhu Yuanzhang, 169–70
Zulus, 219, 221, 222
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