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culture in,
436
fall of,
453
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454
Forbidden City in,
205
,
528
Gorbachev in,
549
Imperial Academy in,
210
Mongol burning of,
389
Nixon in,
546
–47
population of,
152
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wages in,
438
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501
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502
Belgium,
160
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446
,
510
Belgrade, bombing of Chinese embassy in,
605
Belisarius,
345
,
346
Belize,
121
Bell, Alexander Graham,
567
Belloc, Hilaire,
12
Benedict XIII, Pope,
401
Bentley, Edmund,
29
Benz, Karl,
510
Berlin Wall,
550
Bible,
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n
New Testament,
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Old Testament,
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Hebrew Bible
Bierce, Ambrose,
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Bin Wong,
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Birmingham University,
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Black Death,
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bubonic plague
Black Hand,
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Blombos Cave (Africa),
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Blue Gene supercomputers,
596
Bodhisattvas,
322
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329
Bohemia,
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Bolivia,
460
Bolsheviks,
528
Bombay–Calcutta railroad,
507
Bonesetter’s Daughter, The
(Tan),
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Boniface VIII, Pope,
398
Boniface IX, Pope,
401
Book of Changes
,
479
Book of Lord Shang
,
257
Book of Martyrs
(Fox),
436
Borneo,
127
Boswell, James,
490
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Botox,
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Boulton, Matthew,
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Bourbons,
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Boxer Rebellion,
211
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595
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520
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Brazil,
430
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civil service of,
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509
Enlightenment thought in,
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exploration and,
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farming in,
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French wars against,
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Habsburgs and,
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industrial revolution in,
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Ireland and,
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505
medieval,
194
plague in,
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prehistoric,
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privateers from,
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Renaissance in,
419
Roman,
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Royal Navy of,
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trade of,
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Victorian,
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and World Wars,
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British East India Company,
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200
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396
Brunelleschi, Filippo,
438
bubonic plague (Black Death),
396
–401,
420
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437
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505
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520
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574
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