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Russo-Japanese War,
247
,
263

Russo-Turkish War,
231

Ryan, Christopher,
15

Sacred Ridge (Colorado),
62

Saddam Hussein,
68
,
347
,
352

Sahara Desert,
153
,
227

Sahel,
153

Sahelanthropus
,
306

Salonica,
247
samantas
,
139

Samarkand,
182
,
220

Samoa,
53
–
55
,
57
–
62
,
109
,
232
,
291

samurai,
151

San hunter-gatherers,
59
,
60
,
78

San Jose (California),
386

Santa Cruz Mountains (California),
386

Sanyangzhuang (China),
72
–
73
,
105

Sarajevo,
236

Sarawak Province,
167

Sargon of Akkad,
90
–
91
,
94

Sarmatians,
122
,
125
,
125

Sasanids,
115
,
125
,
126
,
130
,
136

Saudi Arabia,
346
–
48
,
353

Schwerpunkt
,
375

Schmidt, Eric,
379

Schnupp, Jan,
381

Schularick, Moritz,
357

Science
(journal),
80

Scientific American
,
15

Scotland,
396
n; see also
Caledonia

Scowcroft, Brent,
286
,
328
–
29

Scythians,
117
–
21
,
126
,
129

Seleucus,
108

Selfish Gene, The
(Dawkins),
297

Senegal,
203
,
221

Senones,
28
,
37

Serbia,
8
,
236
,
245
,
258
,
267

Serpukhov-
15
,
3

Seven Samurai, The
(film),
151

Sex at Dawn
(Ryan and Jethá),
15

Shakas,
121
;
see also
Scythians

Shakespeare, William,
12
,
13
,
15
,
21
n
,
38
,
96
,
110
,
201
,
297

Shang dynasty,
97

Shanghai,
262

Shapur I, Sasanid emperor,
130

Sharpsburg, Battle of,
221

Shihuangdi, First Emperor,
106

Shiites,
350

ships,
48
,
142
,
167
,
170
,
190
,
197
,
201
,
242
,
244
; ancient,
42
,
99
; armed with cannons,
167
,
180
–
81
,
188
–
89
,
192
–
93
,
218
,
221
–
22
; of British Empire,
203
,
214
–
15
,
222
,
225
,
238
,
256
,
328
; line-ahead formation for,
187
–
88
,
197
; nomads' use of,
129
,
144
; oceangoing,
177
–
80
,
185
,
201
,
232
,
322
; pirate,
see
pirates; of Roman Empire,
76
; for slave trade,
203
–
204
,
223
; steam,
218
–
22
; in World War I,
247
,
251

shoguns,
151

Shona-speaking tribes,
154

Shrewsbury, siege of,
146

Siam,
170
,
221

Siberia,
156
,
183
,
316

Sichuan,
176

sieges,
84
,
90
,
142
,
192
,
231
,
336
; of Constantinople,
136
; firearms used at,
170
–
71
,
173
,
174
,
176
; Mauryan,
108
; of Troy,
97
; Viking,
137

Silicon Valley,
386

Silk Roads,
121
,
177
,
178

Sima Qian,
20
,
105
,
106

Singapore,
354

Singularity,
389
–
91

“Sipán, Lords of,”
156

slavery,
9
,
79
,
167
,
180
,
335
; Africans sold into,
195
,
196
,
203
–
205
,
204
,
220
,
387
; in ancient empires,
37
–
39
,
46
,
49
,
97
,
99
; in Greek city-states,
50
; regulations against,
219
,
223

sleeping sickness,
220

Smalley, Richard,
382

Smalley's Law,
390
,
392

smallpox,
127
,
196

Smith, Adam,
138
,
195
,
205
,
207
–
10
,
216
,
217
,
223
,
277

Snaketown,
161

Solomon, King,
97
,
101

Somalia,
63
,
349
,
350

Song dynasty,
144

Songueval, Battle of,
254

South Africa,
94
,
162
,
219
,
220
; Boer Wars in,
232
,
350
–
53
; prehistoric,
313
,
314

South Dakota,
62

South Korea,
4
,
279
,
328
,
354
–
55
,
355
,
358

South Sea Bubble,
191

Soviet Union,
3
–
6
,
251
,
258
,
262
,
263
,
356
,
363
; Afghanistan invaded by,
286
; during Cold War,
3
–
4
,
85
,
269
,
273
–
75
,
278
–
87
,
326
–
29
,
344
,
364
,
373
,
376
; collapse of,
329
–
30
,
353
,
391
; Communist Party of,
4
; internally directed violence in,
261
,
265
,
329
; nuclear weapons of,
273
–
75
,
275
,
279
–
82
,
286
,
325
,
326
,
340
,
376
; oil and,
347
; Politburo,
278
,
328
; Red Army,
258
,
261
; in World War II,
19
,
264
–
71
,
274

Spain,
129
,
131
,
174
,
187
,
192
,
205
,
343
; American Revolution supported by,
210
; antiwar attitudes in,
344
; cave paintings in,
313
; colonization of Americas by,
150
,
156
,
193
–
94
,
219
; French invasion of,
215
,
215

Spanish-American War,
220

Spanish influenza,
255

Spanish Succession, War of the,
192

Spartans,
64
,
84

spears,
29
,
31
–
32
,
34
,
101
,
122
,
182
; armor and,
66
; bronze-pointed,
89
,
96
,
98
–
99
,
156
; cavalry armed with,
122
,
124
,
126
; in elephant battles,
107
; of hunter-gatherers,
78
; iron heads for,
102
,
105
,
107
,
154
; Neanderthal,
311
,
316
; in Stone Age cave paintings,
90
,
90

Springsteen, Bruce,
6
,
287
,
327
,
333

Sputnik,
280

Sri Lanka,
197

Stalin, Joseph,
23
,
263
,
269
,
279
,
327
; nonaggression pact of Hitler and,
25
; violence of,
261
,
265
,
329
; during World War II,
266
,
271
,
278

Stalingrad,
270

Standard Oil of California,
346

Stanford University,
320

Starr, Edwin,
6
,
17
,
395
n

Star Wars antimissile defense system,
286
,
326

stationary bandits,
43
–
46
,
141
,
184
,
318
–
22
,
335
; caging and,
80
,
87
; in Hawaii,
149
; imperialism and,
209
; Red Queen Effect and,
97
; in Roman Empire,
123
; in Smith's economic views,
205
; World War II and,
267
–
70

Statistics of Deadly Quarrels
(Richardson),
14
,
58

steam power,
217
–
21
,
121

steppes,
66
,
122
,
176
,
312
; of Americas,
162
; closing of,
183
,
185
,
192
,
337
; diseases spread across,
127
,
170
; horse-breeding on,
94
,
101
–
102
,
105
,
116
,
336
,
376
; nomad migrants and raiders from,
117
–
21
,
125
–
28
,
130
–
34
,
141
–
44
,
151
,
162
,
182
–
83
,
242
,
322
–
23
(see also
Mongols; Ottomans); revolution in military affairs on,
94
–
96
; Silk Road across,
178
,
180

Steuben, Baron von,
210

Stoicism,
39
,
49
,
70
,
123
–
24
,
323

Stone Age societies,
11
,
18
,
148
; cave paintings from,
90
,
90
313
–
14
; rates of violent death in,
7
,
8
,
10
,
14
,
109
,
110
,
146
,
233
,
333
,
333
,
391
,
393
; twentieth-century,
13
,
82
–
84
,
337
(see also
Yanomami)

Storm of Steel
(Jünger),
248

storm troops,
252
–
53
,
264

submarines,
251
,
280
,
359
,
363

Sudan,
152
,
220
,
348
–
49

Suez Canal,
346

suicide bombing,
19

Sui dynasty,
131
,
140

Sullivan, Arthur,
238
,
403
n

Sumerians,
85
–
86
,
90
–
91
,
91
,
93

Summers, Colonel Harry,
124

Susa,
159

Suttner, Baroness Bertha von,
234

Sweden,
177
,
186
–
87
,
344

Switzerland,
17
,
78
,
138
,
248
; banks of,
343

swords,
27
,
67
,
107
,
122
,
168
,
201
; of barbarians, 99–100; bronze,
99
; and introduction of firearms,
174
; iron,
101
,
102
,
105
,
151
; in Pompeii,
36
,
40
,
70
; short,
29
,
31
,
99
; steel,
193
;
see also
broadswords

syphilis,
194

Syria,
117
,
127
,
129
,
178
,
283
,
286
,
349
,
363
; ancient,
34
,
46
,
48
,
86
,
98
,
101
; civil war in,
333
,
350
,
352
,
392
; impact of climate change in,
368
; Mongol invasion of,
145
; Umayyad caliphate in,
131
–
32

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