Why the West Rules--For Now (139 page)

ancient,
249
,
256
(see also
Israelites)

persecution and slaughter of,
372
,
391
,
399
,
513
,
579

Jiahu (China),
122
–24,
129
,
204
,
212

Jiangzhai (China),
122

Jiankang (China),
305
,
306
,
319
,
321
,
329
,
334
–37;
see also
Nanjing

Jin (China),
244
,
245
,
251
–53,
262
,
265
n
,
279

Jin dynasty,
304
–306,
311
,
317
,
318

Jingdi, Emperor,
284
–85

Jinsha (China),
214
,
215

Jobs, Steve,
542

Jocelyn, Lord Robert,
143

John, King,
416

John the Baptist,
372

John of Ephesus, Bishop,
346
,
347

Johnson, Lyndon Baines,
141

Johnson, Samuel,
32
,
39
,
40

Jordan,
197

archaeological sites in,
100
,
102
,
124

Joseph,
191
–93,
224

Journal of the Plague Year
(Defoe),
455

Journey to the West
,
436
–37

Judah,
234
,
235
,
247
,
248

Judaism,
324
,
327
,
351
–52;
see also
Hebrew Bible

Julius Caesar
(Shakespeare),
436

Jurchen Empire,
386
–87,
389
,
392
,
575
,
576

Justinian, Emperor,
343
–49,
353
,
616

Ka’ba (Mecca),
351

Kadesh (Syria),
199
,
214

Kaifeng (China),
153
,
155
,
380
–83,
386
–87,
389
,
392
,
419
,
422
,
451
,
482
,
493
,
575

Kangxi, Emperor,
477
,
479
–81

Kant, Immanuel,
472
,
474
,
475
,
532

kaozheng
(evidential research),
473
,
477

Karakhanid Empire,
366

Karakorum (Mongolia),
393

Karluk Turks,
366

Kassites,
197

Katanda (Congo),
64

Kazakhstan,
196
,
220
,
249
,
277
,
312
,
606
n

Keightley, David,
212
,
213

Kennedy, John F.,
434
,
580
,
616

Kennedy, Paul,
248

Kenyon, Kathleen,
102
,
105

Kepler, Johannes,
113

Keynes, John Maynard,
529
–30

Khaldun, Ibn,
396

Khitans,
374
,
376
,
386
,
389

Khmers,
360

Khrushchev, Nikita,
541
,
542
,
544
,
580
,
616

Khubilai Khan,
392
,
575

Khufu, King,
187

Khusrau II, King,
343
,
347
–49,
352
,
353
,
616

Kidd, Captain William,
485

Kim Il Sung,
16

Kim Jong Il,
16
,
194

Kipling, Rudyard,
620
–21

Kissinger, Henry,
266

Kizzuwatna,
198

Klein, Richard,
59
n

Koguryo,
354

Kon-Tiki
(Heyerdahl),
421
n

Koran,
255
,
351
,
353
,
358
,
574

Korea,
159
,
290
,
342
,
354
,
360
,
406
,
441
,
443
,
483
,
524

prehistoric,
127
–28

Korean War,
534
–35,
543
,
590

Koukounaries (Greece),
219

Kubrick, Stanley,
63

Kuropatkin, Aleksei Nikolaevich,
526

Kurosawa, Akira,
440
n

Kurzweil, Ray,
592
–96,
614
,
617
,
618

Kuwait, Iraqi invasion of,
180

Kynge, James,
553

Kyoto protocol,
609

Kyrgyzstan,
459
,
606
n

Kyushu (Japan),
129

Lagos (Nigeria),
149

Lake Agassiz (North America),
91
–93

Lamentation over Ur, The
(Sumerian poem),
194

Landes, David,
17

Laws, The
(Plato),
260

League of Nations,
610

Leakey, Louis,
43

Leakey, Mary,
43

Lebanon, ancient,
190
,
200
,
239

Le Clerc, Peg-Leg,
462

Lee, James,
18
n

Legalist Tradition,
257
,
259
,
265

Leibniz, Gottfried,
470
n
,
481