Why the West Rules--For Now (149 page)

Uzbekistan,
59
,
366
,
606
n

Vagnari (Italy),
273

Valencia,
438

Valens, Emperor,
312
,
313

Valerian, Emperor,
310
,
328

Vandals,
313
,
315
,
316
,
345

Vedas,
137

Venice,
371
,
373
,
384
,
392
,
402
,
404
,
420
n
,
427
,
429
,
431
–32,
459

Venter, Craig,
595
,
596

Verne, Jules,
507
,
511

Vespasian, Emperor,
286

Viagra,
594

Victoria, Queen of England,
6
,
7
,
10
–11,
14
,
148

Vienna, Congress of,
489

Vietnam,
11
,
127
,
407
,
408
,
587

Vietnam War,
106
,
140
,
141
,
502
n
,
535

Vikings,
363
,
364
,
371
,
421
,
427

Vinland,
371

Virgil,
286

Voltaire,
13
,
280
,
472
–74,
481

von Däniken, Erich,
182
–83,
186
,
189
,
194
,
215
,
253
,
399
,
410
,
614
n

Voyage on the Red Sea, The
,
273
,
275

Wagner, Lindsay,
594

Wales,
472
n
Wal-Mart,
553

Wang Anshi,
376
,
421

Wang Feng,
18

Wang Mang, Emperor,
299

Wang Qirong,
210
–11

Wang Yangming,
426
,
453
,
473
n

Wang Zhen,
379
–80,
420
n

Wanli, Emperor,
442
–43

War and Peace
(Tolstoy),
113

Wardi, al-,
398

War of the East,
524
,
532

Warring States period,
244
n
,
264

War of the West,
486
–89,
524
,
526
,
532
,
534
,
550

Waterloo, battle of,
486

Watt, James,
494
–97,
500
,
502
,
504
,
567
,
568
,
573

Wayne, John,
18

Wealth and Poverty of Nations, The
(Landes),
17

weapons,
151
,
180
,
185
,
197
,
217
,
295
,
389

in China,
305
,
374
,
380

nuclear,
see
nuclear weapons

high-tech,
548
,
591
–92,
615
–16,
618

iron and bronze,
128
–29,
181
,
191
,
200
,
208
,
233
–34,
276

of mass destruction,
605

prehistoric,
57
,
80

siege,
277

in World War I,
526
;
see also
guns

Weber, Max,
136
–37

Wedgwood, Josiah,
498

Wei (China),
265
,
266
,
335
n

Weiss, Harvey,
192

Wellington, Duke of,
486

Wendi, Emperor,
337
,
345
,
346
,
354

West Germany,
533
,
535

Wheeler, Brigadier Mortimer,
274
–75

White, Leslie,
148

Whitney, Eli,
496

Wilhelm II, Kaiser,
524
,
525

Wilkinson, John (“Iron-Mad”),
495

William I (“the Conqueror”), King,
194

William of Orange,
20

Wire, The
(television show),
442

Woods, Tiger,
594

Wordsworth, William,
491
–92

World Bank,
547
,
603

World Health Organization,
603
–604

World Trade Organization,
610

World War I,
65
,
133
,
526
–29,
531
,
533
,
605

World War II,
17
,
52
,
254
,
273
–75,
526
,
531
–34,
565
,
578
,
579
,
608

Wozniak, Steve,
542

Wright brothers,
510

Wu (China),
245
,
524

Wu, King,
229
–31

Wudi, Emperor (Han dynasty),
285
,
294
,
457

Wudi, Emperor (Liang dynasty),
329

Wuding, King,
212
–15,
220
,
221

Wu Zetian,
340
–42,
344
,
345
,
355
,
363
n

Wuzong, Emperor,
375

Xia dynasty,
205
–209,
214
,
235
,
245

Xian, Marquis,
251