Why the West Rules--For Now (148 page)

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Authors: Ian Morris

Tags: #History, #Modern, #General, #Business & Economics, #International, #Economics

Tell Brak (Syria),
181
,
184
Tell Leilan (Syria),
192
,
193
,
206
Temps modernes, Les
(journal),
106
Temujin,
388
Tenochtitlán,
417
,
421
,
426
,
429
,
431
–33,
460
Terracotta Army,
282
,
285
Teshik-Tash (Uzbekistan),
59
Thailand,
120
,
127
,
534
Thebes (Egypt),
193
,
194
,
215
,
219
Theodora, Empress,
344
,
345
,
363
n
Theodosius, Emperor,
315
,
326
Three Dynasties Chronology Project,
201
,
214
Thucydides,
268
,
296
Tiananmen Square massacre,
549
,
586
Tibet,
458
Tierra del Fuego,
139
Tiglath-Pileser III, King,
245
–49,
269
,
303
,
316
,
335
,
567
Tilley, Christopher,
141
Tinghai (China),
145
,
148
Tokyo,
501
n
,
503
,
523
,
524
population of,
149
,
152
,
482
n
Tolkien, J.R.R.,
53
Tolstoy, Leo,
113
,
284
Tomyris, Queen of Massagetae,
278
Tongling (China),
210
Treasure Fleets,
408
,
416
,
426
,
429
Treasury Bonds, U.S.,
585
Treatise on Agriculture
(Wang Zhen),
379
,
420
n
Tripitaka (“Three Baskets” of Buddhist canon),
256
Trobriand Islands,
133
,
137
Troy,
199
,
241
True Levellers,
452
Tunisia,
315
,
364
Turkana Boy,
45
,
52
,
57
Turkey,
81
,
97
,
197
n
,
431
,
443
–46,
452
,
453
,
459
–61,
528
,
605
n
archaeological sites in,
96
,
100
,
102
–103,
105
,
123
–25
modernization of,
571
Turkic peoples,
348
,
349
,
354
–56,
358
,
361
,
364
,
366
–67,
372
,
567
; Ottoman,
see
Ottomans
Turkmenistan,
125
,
189
2001: A Space Odyssey
(Clarke),
63
,
149
,
182
,
183
Ugarit (Syria),
216
,
217
,
220
,
225
Ukraine,
196
,
295
,
458
Uluburun (Anatolia),
200
’Umar,
351
Undefeated Sun,
323
United Arab Emirates,
605
n
United Monarchy,
234
United Nations,
150
,
610
Food and Agriculture Organization,
601
Human Development Index,
145
–47,
149
–50
Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC),
599
United States,
31
,
35
,
158
,
488
,
531
,
601
n
,
604
,
605
,
612
,
634
carbon emissions of,
18
,
538
,
609
China and,
518
,
546
–47,
585
–88,
606
diseases in,
603
economy of,
12
,
34
,
225
,
529
–31,
535
,
540
–41,
542
,
553
,
578
,
582
,
588
,
597
,
598
,
615
emigration to,
509
,
603
impact of climate change in,
600
industrialization in,
510
,
521
Japan and,
10
,
534
military spending in,
548
,
631
neo-evolutionary theory in,
138
–39
nuclear weapons and,
605
–606,
608
,
616
September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on,
551
Soviet Union and,
526
,
527
,
533
–35,
540
–42,
550
,
580
,
616
technology in,
542
,
594
,
597
,
615
in Vietnam War,
535
in World War I,
529
in World War II,
52
,
532
,
533
,
579
Universal History
(Polybius),
263
–64
Ur (Mesopotamia),
193
–94
Royal Cemetery of,
188
–89
Urartu,
248
Urban II, Pope,
372
Uruk (Mesopotamia),
181
–88,
190
,
192
,
194
,
203
,
206
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207
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210
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223
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229
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562
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610

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