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Authors: Ian Morris

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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

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