Read Why the West Rules--For Now Online
Authors: Ian Morris
Tags: #History, #Modern, #General, #Business & Economics, #International, #Economics
trade of,
365
,
395
,
429
;
see also
Islam
Mussi, Gabriele de’,
397
n
Mutual Assured Destruction,
580
Mycenaeans,
197
,
198
Nagasaki (Japan),
435
,
483
,
515
,
532
,
610
,
614
,
617
Nanjing,
407
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410
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413
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416
,
422
,
423
,
442
,
475
;
see also
Jiankang
Napoleon, Emperor,
403
n
,
486
,
488
–89,
532
,
551
,
572
Naram-Sin, King,
189
,
192
Nariokotome (Kenya),
45
Narmer, King,
185
–87
Naroll, Raoul,
139
,
140
,
144
,
151
National Geographic
(magazine),
125
National Intelligence Council, U.S.,
582
,
601
,
602
Nationalists, Chinese,
51
,
534
National Science Foundation,
595
Native Americans,
19
,
109
,
119
,
430
,
450
,
464
,
522
Neanderthals,
54
–61,
64
,
69
–70,
72
,
75
,
80
,
88
,
89
,
150
Needham, Joseph,
475
–76,
479
Nefertiti, Queen of Egypt,
261
Nemesis
(ship),
9
,
517
Neo-Confucians,
376
,
422
Nero, Emperor,
307
Nerchinsk (Siberia),
455
,
457
,
458
Nesbit, Edith,
182
Netherlands,
160
,
446
,
448
,
450
English wars with,
500
,
573
,
574
trade of,
465
–67,
483
,
485
,
486
New Age,
261
n
Newfoundland,
416
New Guinea,
116
,
117
,
119
,
133
New Policies,
376
,
422
Newton, Isaac,
113
,
470
,
474
,
481
,
500
,
573
,
574
New York City,
152
,
509
,
541
railroad from San Francisco to,
507
New Yorker
magazine,
613
New York Times, The
,
551
,
610
New York Tribune
,
15
New Zealand,
519
Nicaragua,
421
Nicholas II, Tsar,
524
,
525
,
528
“Nightfall” (Asimov),
92
–93,
580
Nineveh,
247
,
248
,
278
Niuheliang (China),
126
Nixon, Richard M.,
541
,
546
–48,
552
Noah’s Flood
(Ryan and Pitman),
81
n
Nobel Prize,
55
,
571
,
583
,
593
Normans,
364
,
371
–72
Norsemen,
371
,
398
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO),
605
Northern Wei kingdom,
329
,
333
,
335
–36,
362
North Korea,
12
,
16
,
194
,
534
Norway,
146
,
147
,
398
Novum Organum
(Bacon),
468
Nubians,
247
nuclear weapons,
12
,
182
,
532
,
534
,
580
,
591
,
605
,
607
,
608
,
610
,
614
,
616
“Nylon Wars, The” (Riesman),
540
Octavian,
see
Augustus
Odoacer, King,
316
–17
Ögödei, Khan,
389
,
391
,
393
oil,
510
–11,
528
,
531
,
537
,
551
,
601
,
604
,
611
,
630
,
633
Arab states’ embargo on,
535
,
548
world demand for,
612
Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania),
43
,
47
Old World Exchange,
296
–98,
301
,
307
,
308
,
316
,
321
,
327
–29,
347
,
393
,
395
,
396
,
401
,
563
Second,
393
–97,
399
–401,
564
Oliver Twist
(Dickens),
506
Olympic Games,
12
,
594
On Christian Theology
(Aquinas),
371
On the Origin of Species
(Darwin),
73
,
136
Opium War,
7
–9,
18
,
143
,
517
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development,
583
Organization for European Economic Cooperation,
533
n
Orwell, George,
530
Osman II, Sultan,
452
Ottomans,
401
–403,
431
,
438
,
442
–49,
462
,
489
,
526
,
528
,
574
,
605
;
see also
Turkey