Why the West Rules--For Now (135 page)

Gilgamesh, King,
188

Glasgow University,
494

global warming,
96
,
119
,
291
,
598
–601,
603

at end of Ice Age,
81
–85,
561
;
see also
Medieval Warm Period; Roman Warm Period

Glorious Revolution,
567

Göbekli Tepe (Turkey),
96

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,
531

gold,
185
,
188
,
190
,
200
,
275
,
294
,
348
,
414
,
460
,
462
,
512

Goldman Sachs,
582

Goldstone, Jack,
19
–20

Gong Zizhen,
506

Gorbachev, Mikhail,
549
–50

Gorbachev, Raisa,
549

Goths,
307
,
310
,
312
–16,
328
,
345
,
576

Gould, Stephen Jay,
45

Grand Canal, Chinese,
6
,
337
,
368
,
380
,
465
,
493
,
506
,
517
,
563

Grand Concordance system,
478

Grant, Ulysses S.,
521

Gray, Elisha,
567
–68

Great Chain of Being,
83

Great Chain of Energy,
83
–86,
108
,
143
,
156
,
381

Great Cloud Sutra,
340

Great Divergence, The
(Pomeranz),
20
,
40
–41,
168

Great Leap Forward,
62
n
,
544
,
546
,
547

Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution,
545
–46,
548

Great Pyramid,
187
–88,
370

Great Wall,
279
,
441
,
442

Greece,
159
,
310
,
367

archaeological sites in,
219
,
291
,
395

Christianity in,
325

classical,
see
Greeks, ancient

Greeks, ancient,
22
,
137
,
193
,
197
,
198
,
216
–20,
429
n,
474

agriculture of,
107

in Anatolia,
199

Axial thought of,
259
–63

in Bactria,
271

in China,
275

cities of,
23
,
142
,
268
,
289
,
317

colonies of,
234
,
239
–40,
242
,
244
,
365
,
368
,
465

historical texts of,
30
,
249
–50

living standards of,
250

Macedon and,
268
–69

metallurgy of,
233

mythology of,
241
,
277

philosophy of,
14
,
93
,
255
,
327

Romans and,
269
–70,
280
,
286
,
289

social development of,
225

trade of,
200
,
239

Greenland,
371
,
398
,
421

Green Party,
106

Gregory VII, Pope,
369

Guangdong (China),
588

Guangwu, Emperor,
299

Guangxu, Emperor,
523

Guangzhou (China),
432
–33,
484
,
501
n
,
515
,
517

Gui people,
221

Gujarat,
431

Gu Kaizhi,
321

guns,
143
,
407
,
482
,
499
,
521
,
573
,
577
,
591

in China,
15
,
396
,
407
,
457
–59,
576

European,
143
,
159
,
402
–404,
419
,
430
,
431
,
433
,
465
,
484

in Japan,
440
,
443
,
483
,
517
,
520

Guns, Germs, and Steel
(Diamond),
17
,
117

Gutians,
191

Gu Yanwu,
473
–74,
481

Habsburgs,
445
–49,
460
–62,
466
,
486
,
526
,
528
,
551
,
567
,
573
,
574

Habuba Kabira (Syria),
184

Hadrian,
307

Hagia Sophia (Constantinople),
343
,
403

Haiti,
34
,
460

Hamlet
(Shakespeare),
62
,
436

Han Chinese,
169

Han dynasty,
285
,
317
,
334
,
338
,
341
,
354
,
355
,
457
,
474
,
546

collapse of,
300
–304,
309
,
563
,
569
,
576
,
587

Confucianism during,
262
,
320
–21,
420

energy consumption during,
380
–81

founding of,
283
,
284