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city-state

Greek
polis
,
179
–81,
188
,
214
Aristotle on,
206
,
221
in early Africa,
479
Italian,
509
–10

civilization

origins of,
35
–6,
41
–2,
45
definitions,
41
–2,
44
,
674
early,
41
–8
variety of,
43
–5
diffusion of,
106
,
148
integration in Near East,
159
–60,
164
Indian world-view,
431
,
432
,
433
medieval Church domination,
490
–2,
539
–40
post-medieval world-view,
539
–40,
541
Europeanizing of world,
631
,
789
–93,
795
revolutionized by industrialization,
708
–9

civil rights campaign, US,
1100

class structure and consciousness

in Japan,
471
–4,
844
–5
in medieval Europe,
519
–22;
see also
feudalism
in early modern Europe,
563
–6
in Russia,
618
,
624
–5
revolutionary element in France,
730
socialist egalitarianism,
758
–60
Marx’s view,
760
British stratification,
782
,
786
Comintern doctrine on,
952

Claudius (10
BC

AD
54), Roman emperor (
AD
41–54),
248

Clemenceau, Georges (1841–1929), French statesman,
903

Clement of Alexandria, St (
fl
.
c.
AD
96), Christian Platonist,
274
,
284

Cleopatra (
c.
68–30
BC
), queen of Egypt, (51–30
BC
),
218
,
243
,
245

clergy

early medieval,
412
–16
medieval,
492
–3
legal immunity of,
495
training revivified,
536
,
541
anti-clericalism,
574
–6,
646
,
675
,
697
,
803
,
875

climate

effect on evolution,
4
–6,
22
,
47
Egypt,
67
India,
120
China,
133
Africa,
149
–50
fears over global warming,
1025
–6,
1184
–5
see also
Ice Ages

Clinton, Bill (1946–), US president,
1167
–8,
1168
–9,
1170
,
1170
–71,
1172
–3,
1185

Clive, Robert (1725–74), British imperialist,
640

clocks,
461
,
464
,
681
–2,
831
,
842

Clovis (465–511), king of the Franks (481–511),
302
–3,
305
,
314

Cluny, Cluniac monasteries,
415
,
491

coal,
1007

in China,
458
for smelting iron,
710

Cobden, Richard (1804–65), British statesman,
717
–18

Cold War,
988

ideological content,
976
–7,
1040
Berlin blockade,
1041
–3
Korean War,
1044
–5
split in world economy,
1046
Asia and,
1051
see also
Cuba

Colombia,
1082

US intervention,
805
and Panama,
829

colonization

Phoenician,
105
,
184
Greek,
172
–3,
178
,
184
–5
Norse,
406
–9
demography and,
555
,
648
,
798
early modern European,
630
–56
in Africa and Asia, (Portuguese),
632
–3,
634
–5; (Dutch),
635
–7; (British),
637
–41
in Americas, (Spanish),
641
–7,
656
; (French),
647
,
649
,
650
,
653
; (British),
648
–55; (Dutch),
650
–1
economic effects of,
655
political effects of,
656
early economic theory and,
657
–9
cultural effects of,
789
–92,
859
–60
of Australasia,
806
,
810
–11
of S. Africa,
807
–8,
811
see also
British Empire; imperialism

colour problems
see
racial issues

Columbus, Christopher (1451–1506), Italian explorer,
533
,
534
,
641

Comecon,
976
,
1106

Cominform,
976
,
1093

Comintern (Third International)

communist spearhead,
905
,
976
in China,
922
,
924
,
926
preached class struggle,
952

commodities
see
economic organization; trade; individual commodities

Commodus (161–92), Roman emperor (180–92),
247
,
276
–7

Common Agricultural Policy (CAP),
1109
,
1155

communications

telegraph,
712
,
757
,
796
,
850
postal services,
784
diminish isolation,
796
population movements and,
798
telephone,
880
satellite,
1019
television,
1010
–11
advance in,
1028
,
1111
–13
the Internet,
1011
computers,
1011
see also
railways; shipping; transport

communism

fears of,
904
–7
economic policy split,
907
–8
Chinese Revolution and,
922
–6,
929
,
984
in Arab states,
941
in W. Europe,
952
,
966
in E. Europe,
966
,
974
,
975
–6,
1135
–43 (
see also
Russia)
in S.E. Asia,
986
–7
see also
Bolsheviks; Comintern; Marx; socialism

Comneni dynasty in Byzantium,
359

compass, magnetic,
458
,
464
,
532

computers,
1009
–10,
1011

Comte, Auguste (1797–1857), French sociologist,
882

concentration camps at Belsen and Buchenwald,
963

Confucius (
c.
550–478
BC
), shaper of Chinese thought

Confucianism,
143
–6
as conservative force,
145
,
917
,
930
values dominated Chinese state,
449
–52,
454
in Japan,
467
,
845
tablets attacked by Taipin,
835

Congo (Zaire),
1075

Belgians in,
825
,
826

conquistadores
,
642
,
667

Conrad I, king of E. Franks (911–18),
402

Constantine I ‘the Great’ (
c.
274–337), Roman emperor (306–37)

established Christianity,
286
–9,
350
reunited and reformed empire,
286
,
345

Constantine V (718–75), Byzantine emperor (740–75),
356

Constantine XI (1449–53), Byzantine emperor (1449–53),
388

Constantinople

Christian capital,
289
,
306
,
352
fall to Turks,
345
,
387
–8
Arab sieges,
351
,
353
–4
fall to Crusaders,
361
,
526

Constantius (
c.
225–300), Roman emperor in W. (305–6),
286

contraception

in Egypt,
80
early modern,
552
modern,
702
,
870
,
996
,
998
,
1027
,
1033

Cook, James (1728 –79), British explorer,
672
–3

Copernicus, Nicolaus (1473–1543), Polish astronomer,
683
,
684

copper,
29
,
35
,
58
,
67
,
83

in Yugoslavia,
91
in Near East,
113
in India,
121
,
127
in Europe,
155
,
156

Coptic church,
309

Corinth,
184
,
189

Corn Law repeal,
717
–18,
783
,
871

Cortés, Herman (1485–1547), Spanish soldier,
642
–3

Cossacks, semi-autonomous,
614
,
615

cotton

in ancient India,
122
,
279
trade in,
671
slavery and,
708
,
773
–4
factory processing of,
712
Japanese spinning,
845

councils

Nicaea (325),
288
,
350
Chalcedon (451),
309
Church: first ecumenical (1123),
494
Constance (1414–18),
501
Basle (1431–49),
501
Pisa (1409),
501
Florence (1439),
385
,
529
Siena,
501
Trent (1543–63),
581
,
584
,
670

Counter-Reformation,
581
–4

and politics,
585
,
594
,
611
and missionary enterprise,
670

creoles
,
645
,
800

Crete

ancient,
94
,
95
–100;
see also
Minoan civilization
taken by Turks,
388
,
610
autonomous,
871
united with Greece,
935
World War II and,
960

Croatia,
1144
,
1151

Croesus (d.
c.
546
BC
), king of Lydia,
177
,
185

Cromwell, Oliver (1599–1658), English soldier-statesman,
587
,
660

crops
see
cereals

Crusades,
342
,
361
,
525
–7

fourth,
361
,
526
first,
375
–6,
494
,
525
,
526
response to Seljuk power,
376
third,
376
,
526
second,
525
–6
evoked by French imperialists,
938

Cuba

Europeans in,
641
independent,
803
,
805
,
829

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