Read Why the West Rules--For Now Online
Authors: Ian Morris
Tags: #History, #Modern, #General, #Business & Economics, #International, #Economics
Gilgamesh, King,
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Glasgow University,
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global warming,
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,
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,
291
,
598
–601,
603
at end of Ice Age,
81
–85,
561
;
see also
Medieval Warm Period; Roman Warm Period
Glorious Revolution,
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Göbekli Tepe (Turkey),
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,
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gold,
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Goldman Sachs,
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Goldstone, Jack,
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Gong Zizhen,
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Gorbachev, Mikhail,
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Gorbachev, Raisa,
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Goths,
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–16,
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Gould, Stephen Jay,
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Grand Canal, Chinese,
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Grand Concordance system,
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Grant, Ulysses S.,
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Gray, Elisha,
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–68
Great Chain of Being,
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Great Chain of Energy,
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–86,
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Great Cloud Sutra,
340
Great Divergence, The
(Pomeranz),
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–41,
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Great Leap Forward,
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n
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547
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution,
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–46,
548
Great Pyramid,
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–88,
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Great Wall,
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Greece,
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archaeological sites in,
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Christianity in,
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classical,
see
Greeks, ancient
Greeks, ancient,
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–20,
429
n,
474
agriculture of,
107
in Anatolia,
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Axial thought of,
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–63
in Bactria,
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in China,
275
cities of,
23
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268
,
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,
317
colonies of,
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–40,
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365
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368
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465
historical texts of,
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–50
living standards of,
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Macedon and,
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–69
metallurgy of,
233
mythology of,
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,
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philosophy of,
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,
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,
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,
327
Romans and,
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–70,
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289
social development of,
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trade of,
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,
239
Greenland,
371
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,
421
Green Party,
106
Gregory VII, Pope,
369
Guangdong (China),
588
Guangwu, Emperor,
299
Guangxu, Emperor,
523
Guangzhou (China),
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–33,
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,
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n
,
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,
517
Gui people,
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Gujarat,
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Gu Kaizhi,
321
guns,
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in China,
15
,
396
,
407
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–59,
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European,
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–404,
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431
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465
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484
in Japan,
440
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517
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520
Guns, Germs, and Steel
(Diamond),
17
,
117
Gutians,
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Gu Yanwu,
473
–74,
481
Habsburgs,
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–49,
460
–62,
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486
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526
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551
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567
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573
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574
Habuba Kabira (Syria),
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Hadrian,
307
Hagia Sophia (Constantinople),
343
,
403
Haiti,
34
,
460
Hamlet
(Shakespeare),
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436
Han Chinese,
169
Han dynasty,
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334
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338
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341
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354
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457
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474
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546
collapse of,
300
–304,
309
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563
,
569
,
576
,
587
Confucianism during,
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320
–21,
420
energy consumption during,
380
–81
founding of,
283
,
284