Read Why the West Rules--For Now Online
Authors: Ian Morris
Tags: #History, #Modern, #General, #Business & Economics, #International, #Economics
Uzbekistan,
59
,
366
,
606
n
Vagnari (Italy),
273
Valencia,
438
Valens, Emperor,
312
,
313
Valerian, Emperor,
310
,
328
Vandals,
313
,
315
,
316
,
345
Vedas,
137
Venice,
371
,
373
,
384
,
392
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402
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404
,
420
n
,
427
,
429
,
431
–32,
459
Venter, Craig,
595
,
596
Verne, Jules,
507
,
511
Vespasian, Emperor,
286
Viagra,
594
Victoria, Queen of England,
6
,
7
,
10
–11,
14
,
148
Vienna, Congress of,
489
Vietnam,
11
,
127
,
407
,
408
,
587
Vietnam War,
106
,
140
,
141
,
502
n
,
535
Vikings,
363
,
364
,
371
,
421
,
427
Vinland,
371
Virgil,
286
Voltaire,
13
,
280
,
472
–74,
481
von Däniken, Erich,
182
–83,
186
,
189
,
194
,
215
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253
,
399
,
410
,
614
n
Voyage on the Red Sea, The
,
273
,
275
Wagner, Lindsay,
594
Wales,
472
n
Wal-Mart,
553
Wang Anshi,
376
,
421
Wang Feng,
18
Wang Mang, Emperor,
299
Wang Qirong,
210
–11
Wang Yangming,
426
,
453
,
473
n
Wang Zhen,
379
–80,
420
n
Wanli, Emperor,
442
–43
War and Peace
(Tolstoy),
113
Wardi, al-,
398
War of the East,
524
,
532
Warring States period,
244
n
,
264
War of the West,
486
–89,
524
,
526
,
532
,
534
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550
Waterloo, battle of,
486
Watt, James,
494
–97,
500
,
502
,
504
,
567
,
568
,
573
Wayne, John,
18
Wealth and Poverty of Nations, The
(Landes),
17
weapons,
151
,
180
,
185
,
197
,
217
,
295
,
389
in China,
305
,
374
,
380
nuclear,
see
nuclear weapons
high-tech,
548
,
591
–92,
615
–16,
618
iron and bronze,
128
–29,
181
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191
,
200
,
208
,
233
–34,
276
of mass destruction,
605
prehistoric,
57
,
80
siege,
277
in World War I,
526
;
see also
guns
Weber, Max,
136
–37
Wedgwood, Josiah,
498
Wei (China),
265
,
266
,
335
n
Weiss, Harvey,
192
Wellington, Duke of,
486
Wendi, Emperor,
337
,
345
,
346
,
354
West Germany,
533
,
535
Wheeler, Brigadier Mortimer,
274
–75
White, Leslie,
148
Whitney, Eli,
496
Wilhelm II, Kaiser,
524
,
525
Wilkinson, John (“Iron-Mad”),
495
William I (“the Conqueror”), King,
194
William of Orange,
20
Wire, The
(television show),
442
Woods, Tiger,
594
Wordsworth, William,
491
–92
World Bank,
547
,
603
World Health Organization,
603
–604
World Trade Organization,
610
World War I,
65
,
133
,
526
–29,
531
,
533
,
605
World War II,
17
,
52
,
254
,
273
–75,
526
,
531
–34,
565
,
578
,
579
,
608
Wozniak, Steve,
542
Wright brothers,
510
Wu (China),
245
,
524
Wu, King,
229
–31
Wudi, Emperor (Han dynasty),
285
,
294
,
457
Wudi, Emperor (Liang dynasty),
329
Wuding, King,
212
–15,
220
,
221
Wu Zetian,
340
–42,
344
,
345
,
355
,
363
n
Wuzong, Emperor,
375
Xia dynasty,
205
–209,
214
,
235
,
245
Xian, Marquis,
251