Why the West Rules--For Now (127 page)

modern,
535
,
548

technologies of,
395
–96

Arameans,
218
,
220

Archaeology
(magazine),
125

Arctic Dryas,
92

Argentina,
464

Arikamedu (India),
274
,
275

Aristides,
280

Aristotle,
260
,
268
,
324
,
370
,
468
,
537

Arkwright, Richard,
496

Armenia,
328

Army, U.S.,
537
,
539
,
618

War College,
615

Around the World in Eighty Days
(Verne),
507
,
511

Arzawa,
198

Ashoka,
263

Ashur-dan II, King,
235
–37

Ashurnasirpal II, King,
236
–37

Asian Tigers,
543
,
546

Asimov, Isaac,
92
–93,
577
,
580
–81,
614

Assad, Lake (Syria),
90
,
94
,
96
,
101

Assassins,
367

Assaye, battle of,
489

Assyria,
219
,
239
,
243
,
249
,
262
,
276
–79,
369
,
445
,
528
,
610

collapse of,
220

Hittites and,
197
–99

language of,
138
,
214

revival as gangster state of,
235
–37

Tigllath-Pileser III’s rule of,
245
–48,
303
,
316
,
335
,
567

Astounding Science Fiction
(magazine),
93

Atahualpa, King,
460

Atapuerca (Spain),
54
–56

Atenism,
261
–62

Athens,
240
,
241
,
250
,
256
,
260
,
268
,
296
,
524

atomic bomb,
see
nuclear weapons

Attila,
315
–16

Auel, Jean,
57
,
69

Augustus, Emperor,
283
–85,
313
,
320

Austen, Jane,
572

Australia,
16
,
68
,
70
,
75
,
77
,
159
,
410
,
519
,
520
,
602

Austria,
446
,
448
,
526
,
528

Avars,
349

Avignon (France),
398
,
401

Axial thought,
285
,
322

first-wave,
254
–56,
259
–63,
329
,
562
,
569

Renaissance compared to,
420
,
476

second-wave,
324
,
325
–27,
330
,
351
,
353
,
463

social development and,
271

Aztecs,
139
,
433
,
515

Ba’ath Party,
90

Babylon,
138
,
197
–200,
214
,
215
,
219
–21,
247
–51,
278
,
349

Back to the Future
(film),
572

backwardness, advantages of,
34
,
36
,
179
,
195
,
196
,
217
,
241
,
332
,
404
,
552
,
564
,
584
,
619

for Arab migrants,
351

in China,
207
,
264
,
334
,
562
,
585
,
587
,
615

Habsburgs and,
466

in Japan,
584

for Mongols,
389

for Muslim world,
571

for Macedonians,
268

in Mesopotamia,
499
,
561

for Romans,
264

in Soviet Union,
530

in United States,
510

Bacon, Francis,
468
–69,
473

Bactria,
271
,
292

Baghdad,
357
–59,
362
,
364
,
366
,
370
,
391
,
401

Bai Juyi,
355
–56

Balkans,
310
,
313
–15,
348
,
401
,
431
,
526
,
605

“Ballad of East and West, The” (Kipling),
620
–21

Baltic region,
112
–14,
127
–29,
310
,
466

Bamboo Annals
,
232

Bank of England,
530

Bao Si,
242
–43,
355

Barbegal (France),
287

Barker, Graeme,
107

Basiliskos,
316
,
317

Battle of the Red Cliffs, The
(film),
304

Beijing,
201
,
265
n
,
441
,
432
,
465
,
478
,
482
,
483
,
523
,
588
–90,
605

Boxer Rebellion in,
211

Britain and,
506
,
515
,
517
,
518