Read Why the West Rules--For Now Online
Authors: Ian Morris
Tags: #History, #Modern, #General, #Business & Economics, #International, #Economics
ancient,
249
,
256
(see also
Israelites)
persecution and slaughter of,
372
,
391
,
399
,
513
,
579
Jiahu (China),
122
–24,
129
,
204
,
212
Jiangzhai (China),
122
Jiankang (China),
305
,
306
,
319
,
321
,
329
,
334
–37;
see also
Nanjing
Jin (China),
244
,
245
,
251
–53,
262
,
265
n
,
279
Jin dynasty,
304
–306,
311
,
317
,
318
Jingdi, Emperor,
284
–85
Jinsha (China),
214
,
215
Jobs, Steve,
542
Jocelyn, Lord Robert,
143
John, King,
416
John the Baptist,
372
John of Ephesus, Bishop,
346
,
347
Johnson, Lyndon Baines,
141
Johnson, Samuel,
32
,
39
,
40
Jordan,
197
archaeological sites in,
100
,
102
,
124
Joseph,
191
–93,
224
Journal of the Plague Year
(Defoe),
455
Journey to the West
,
436
–37
Judah,
234
,
235
,
247
,
248
Judaism,
324
,
327
,
351
–52;
see also
Hebrew Bible
Julius Caesar
(Shakespeare),
436
Jurchen Empire,
386
–87,
389
,
392
,
575
,
576
Justinian, Emperor,
343
–49,
353
,
616
Ka’ba (Mecca),
351
Kadesh (Syria),
199
,
214
Kaifeng (China),
153
,
155
,
380
–83,
386
–87,
389
,
392
,
419
,
422
,
451
,
482
,
493
,
575
Kangxi, Emperor,
477
,
479
–81
Kant, Immanuel,
472
,
474
,
475
,
532
kaozheng
(evidential research),
473
,
477
Karakhanid Empire,
366
Karakorum (Mongolia),
393
Karluk Turks,
366
Kassites,
197
Katanda (Congo),
64
Kazakhstan,
196
,
220
,
249
,
277
,
312
,
606
n
Keightley, David,
212
,
213
Kennedy, John F.,
434
,
580
,
616
Kennedy, Paul,
248
Kenyon, Kathleen,
102
,
105
Kepler, Johannes,
113
Keynes, John Maynard,
529
–30
Khaldun, Ibn,
396
Khitans,
374
,
376
,
386
,
389
Khmers,
360
Khrushchev, Nikita,
541
,
542
,
544
,
580
,
616
Khubilai Khan,
392
,
575
Khufu, King,
187
Khusrau II, King,
343
,
347
–49,
352
,
353
,
616
Kidd, Captain William,
485
Kim Il Sung,
16
Kim Jong Il,
16
,
194
Kipling, Rudyard,
620
–21
Kissinger, Henry,
266
Kizzuwatna,
198
Klein, Richard,
59
n
Koguryo,
354
Kon-Tiki
(Heyerdahl),
421
n
Koran,
255
,
351
,
353
,
358
,
574
Korea,
159
,
290
,
342
,
354
,
360
,
406
,
441
,
443
,
483
,
524
prehistoric,
127
–28
Korean War,
534
–35,
543
,
590
Koukounaries (Greece),
219
Kubrick, Stanley,
63
Kuropatkin, Aleksei Nikolaevich,
526
Kurosawa, Akira,
440
n
Kurzweil, Ray,
592
–96,
614
,
617
,
618
Kuwait, Iraqi invasion of,
180
Kynge, James,
553
Kyoto protocol,
609
Kyrgyzstan,
459
,
606
n
Kyushu (Japan),
129
Lagos (Nigeria),
149
Lake Agassiz (North America),
91
–93
Lamentation over Ur, The
(Sumerian poem),
194
Landes, David,
17
Laws, The
(Plato),
260
League of Nations,
610
Leakey, Louis,
43
Leakey, Mary,
43
Lebanon, ancient,
190
,
200
,
239
Le Clerc, Peg-Leg,
462
Lee, James,
18
n
Legalist Tradition,
257
,
259
,
265
Leibniz, Gottfried,
470
n
,
481