Why the West Rules--For Now (144 page)

aging,
551
,
586
,
617

of Britain,
505
,
509

of Byzantium
347

of China,
17
,
19
,
201
,
206
,
237
,
238
,
242
,
243
,
286
,
289
,
298
,
307
,
355
,
377
,
392
,
440
,
484
,
544
,
547
,
585

of Egypt,
185
,
200
,
296

epidemics and,
217
,
295
–96,
305
,
308
,
310
,
347
,
396
,
437
,
438
,
455

farming and,
100
,
103
,
108
,
319
,
320
,
600
–601

global warming and,
601
,
603

Greek,
219
,
239

indigenous, American,
430
,
464
,
529

of Japan,
406
,
440
,
483

of Mesopotamia,
188

Muslim,
363

prehistoric,
66
,
72
,
76

of Roman Empire,
286
,
291
,
298
,
312
,
328
,
335

urban,
149
,
151
,
338

Porphyry,
324

Portugal,
33
,
414
,
416
,
419
,
427
,
430
–32,
435
,
440
,
442
,
460

Potosí (Bolivia),
460

Prester John,
414
,
416

PricewaterhouseCoopers,
582

Priestley, Joseph,
568

Prince, The
(Machiavelli),
419

Princess Taiping
(ship),
413

Principia Mathematica
(Newton),
470

privateers,
462

Procopius,
345

“Progress: Its Law and Cause” (Spencer),
135

Project Kittyhawk,
596

Protagoras,
261

Protestantism,
20
,
448

Prozac,
594

Puabi, Queen,
189

Punjab (India),
271

“Pure Land School,”
322

Puritans,
574

Puyi, Emperor,
528

Pylos (Greece),
216
,
217

Qermez Dere (Iraq),
94
,
96
,
97
,
102

Qi (China),
233
,
244
,
251
,
253
,
262
,
265
n

Qiang people,
213
,
221
,
299
–305,
307

Qianlong, Emperor,
484
,
515

Qicunzhen (China),
382

Qi Jiguang,
442
–43

Qin (China),
244
,
251
,
253
,
259
,
262
–70,
275
,
277
,
279
,
281
–85,
292
,
528
,
610

First Emperor,
279
,
282
,
284
–85,
289
,
292
,
293
,
421
n
,
567

Qing dynasty,
458
–59,
473
,
476
,
484
,
499
–500,
518
,
520
,
523
,
528
,
573
,
574
,
587

Qiying,
517

Qiying
(ship),
6
,
7

Quaid, Dennis,
92

Quanzhou (China),
379

Quebec,
463
,
465

railroads,
12
,
507
,
509
,
515
,
523
–24

Railway Children, The
(Nesbit),
182

Raleigh, Walter,
463

Ramses II, Pharaoh,
199
,
214
,
215
,
218
,
220

Ramses III, Pharaoh,
216
–18

Ramses XI, Pharaoh,
219

RAND Corporation,
615

Ranters,
452
–53

Ravenna (Italy),
344

Red Cliffs, battle of,
304

Red Guards,
546

Red-Head Shiites,
444

Red Turbans,
404
,
405

Reindeer Cave (France),
69

Rembrandt,
148

Renaissance,
417
–22,
426
,
433
,
469
,
474
,
476
,
569
,
575
,
589

Renfrew, Colin,
110
,
112

Republic, The
(Plato),
256
,
260

Revivification of the Sciences of Religion
(al-Ghazali),
367

Richardson, Lewis Fry,
608

Richardson, Samuel,
503

Riesman, David,
540

Rifkin, Jeremy,
591

Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, The
(Kennedy),
248

Rites of Zhou
(Confucian handbook),
204

Roanoke Colony,
463
–64

Roberts, Richard,
496