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Authors: J. M. Roberts,Odd Arne Westad

The New Penguin History of the World (241 page)

art in,
56
,
60
technology in,
57
–8
women and law,
56
–7,
62
history of,
58
–61
influence on Egypt,
66
,
68

Sung dynasty in China (960–1126),
454
,
459

Mongol threat to,
454
art under,
456
–7
technology under,
458

Suni, Islamic sect,
333
,
336
,
1123
,
1126
,
1176
–7

Seljuk members,
374
Ottoman members,
391
and Iran/Iraq war,
1122

Sun Yat-sen (1866–1925), Chinese revolutionary,
839
,
840
,
858

KMT and,
917
,
924
–5
Japanese and,
919
death,
925
,
926

superstition

Greek,
200
,
202
,
222
in Roman empire,
255
,
272
early modern,
674

Surrealism,
946
–7

Sviatoslav, prince of Russia (962–72),
367

Swanscombe man,
18

Sweden

Swedes, in Poland,
611
against Russia,
619
,
625
against Prussia,
626
power declines,
625
colonization,
649
World War II and,
962
NATO and,
1043
joins European Union,
1155
see also
Norsemen; Varangians

Switzerland,
962

Symmachus, Q, Aurelius (
c.
340–
c.
416),

Roman aristocrat,
296

Syracuse,
184
,
189
–90,
225
,
233
,
234

Syria

Minoan connexions with,
97
defeat by Assyria,
116
in Alexandrine empire,
214
,
216
,
218
invaded by Persia,
280
Christian,
285
,
289
,
309
,
311
Arab conquest,
329
,
330
Umayyad seat,
333
,
340
crusades in,
526
French interest in,
937
–8,
822
World War II and,
962
Syria–
cont
independent,
987
Arab League and,
988
in United Arab Republic,
1069
Egypt and,
1121
Gulf War and,
1133

Taiping rebellion in China (1850–64),
835
–7

Taiwan (Formosa),
1055
,
1114
,
1116
,
1160

Taj Mahal,
440

Tamberlane
see
Timur Lang

T’ang dynasty in China

collapse of,
373
family and state under,
447
–8
Confucian civil service,
448
–51
population pressure under,
454
classical age of art,
455
–6

Tantrism, semi-magical cult,
434

Taoism,
146
,
452
,
460

Tariq (d.
c.
720), Berber commander,
330

Tatars, Mongolian tribe,
378
,
528
,
530

technology

earliest tools,
7
,
9
–10,
11
,
16
,
22
,
23
advanced by fire,
14
Palaeolithic artifacts and materials,
22
,
23
Neolithic,
29
,
31
in Sumer,
57
–8
in Egypt,
67
–8,
79
Minoan,
98
in India,
121
,
132
in China,
134
,
141
,
457
–8,
464
Roman technical skill,
251
early medieval European,
417
–18
early E. African,
481
agricultural advances,
516
–17,
554
,
705
–8
industrial advances,
560
–1,
709
–10
domestic machines,
870
–1
social impact of,
878
–9
space explorations and,
1018
,
1020
see also
industrialization; metallurgy; plough; science; telescope

telescope,
682
,
684

television,
1010
–11

Tengri, Mongol god,
381
–2

Tennessee Valley scheme,
950
–6

Tenochitlan, Aztec city,
485

Teotihuacá n, early American city,
483

Tertullian (
c.
152–222), Christian churchman,
284
,
297
,
416
,
539

Teutonic knights,
379
,
527
–8,
625

textiles

Asian,
560
E.–W. trade in,
637
factory industry,
711
see also
cotton; silk; wool

Thailand
see
Siam

Thales (
c.
640–546
BC
), Greek philosopher,
202

Thatcher, Margaret (1925–), British prime minister,
1110
–11,
1112

Thebes

Egypt,
70
,
84
,
160
Greece,
190

Themistocles (
c.
514–449
BC
), Athenian statesman,
197

Theodoric (455–526), Ostrogothic king of Italy (474–526),
303
–4,
305

Theodosius I (
c.
346–95), Roman emperor in E. (379–95),
294
,
295
–6

Theseus, legendary Athenian hero,
96

Thespis (6th cent.
BC
), Greek actor,
208

‘Third World’, political grouping of,
1051

Thomas à Kempis (
c.
1380–1471), Christian mystic,
497

Thomson, Sir Joseph John (1856–1940), British physicist,
1013

Thor, Norse god,
366

Thotmes III, king of Egypt (
c.
1500–
c.
1446),
84

Thrace,
107
,
173
,
213

Thucydides (
c.
460–400
BC
), Greek historian,
191
,
198
,
207

Tiberius, Claudius Nero (42
BC

AD
37), Roman emperor (ad 14–37),
246
–7

Tibet

Chinese invasions of,
463
,
464
British invasion of,
792
,
827
Chinese and,
460
–1,
1055

Timur Lang (
c.
1336–1405), Mongol emperor

aspired to rival Chinghis Khan,
383
–4,
387
sacked Delhi,
435

tin,
90
,
156

Tito (Josip Broz) (1892–1980), Yugoslav statesman,
1093
,
1144

Tokugawa shogunate,
473
–4,
475
,
476

problems and responses,
841
–3

Tokyo (formerly Edo),
843

Toledo, Spain,
538

Toltec peoples,
484

tools, earliest,
7
,
9
–10,
11
,
16
,
22
,
23

trade

in Mesopotamian economy,
57
–8
in Egypt,
68
,
83
increasing complexity of,
90
–1
money and barter,
92
–3
Phoenician,
105
in India,
122
‘degrading’,
176
,
195
simple Greek structure,
192
expands in Hellenistic cities,
219
Mongol exploitation of,
381
,
459
Dark Age decline,
417
early western links with India,
429
,
441
–2
stimulated urbanization,
515
world growth,
527
,
556
–8,
634
–7,
647
,
655
,
793
–4
Russia and W.,
620
,
623
motive for imperialism,
634
–7,
644
,
647
British imperial concern,
814
–15,
820
Europe and China,
832
,
835
Japanese,
842
–3,
916
,
927
post-1919 tariff walls,
914
,
927
and ideology,
1046
see also
economic organization; individual commodities

trades unionism in France,
736

inspired by Marxism,
761
in UK,
786
,
868
and fascism,
910

Trajan, M. Ulpius (
c.
52–117), Roman emperor (98–117),
247
,
248
,
257

transport and travel

prehistoric patterns,
91
–2
Roman,
301
Mongol stimulus,
381
Chinese canals,
449
,
452
medieval European,
517
international,
708
,
710
–11
effects on industrial growth,
710
–11,
864
in British India,
817
see also
air travel; motor car; railways;
shipping; Suez Canal

Transvaal Republic,
808
,
809

treaties

Verdun (843),
401
Tordesillas (1494),
533
Westphalia (1648),
604
–5
Breda (1667),
600
Peace of Paris (1763),
657
Paris (1783),
723
–4
Vienna (1815),
746
–7,
750
Japanese ‘unequal’,
843
,
847
,
927
‘Reinsurance’ (1887),
890
Brest-Litovsk (1918),
897
Versailles (1919),
899
,
901
,
903
,
905
,
912
,
948
,
953
,
955
Locarno (1925),
948
Lateran (1929),
910
Rome (1957),
1108
Maastricht,
1153
–4

Trent, Council of (1545–63),
581
,
584
,
670

Trieste,
1046

Tripoli, Italian attack on,
830
,
855
,
934

Trotsky, Leon Davidovich (1879–1940),

Russian revolutionary,
908

Troy,
107

siege of,
101
,
103
,
345

Truman, Harry S (1884–1972), US president

and Europe,
974
,
975
and Middle East,
989
and Far East,
1044

Truman Doctrine,
976

Tsolikovsky, Konstantin (1857–1935), Russian scientist,
1018

Tudor dynasty in England,
600

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