Why the West Rules--For Now (128 page)

culture in,
436

fall of,
453
,
454

Forbidden City in,
205
,
528

Gorbachev in,
549

Imperial Academy in,
210

Mongol burning of,
389

Nixon in,
546
–47

population of,
152
,
482
n

wages in,
438
,
501
,
502

Belgium,
160
,
446
,
510

Belgrade, bombing of Chinese embassy in,
605

Belisarius,
345
,
346

Belize,
121

Bell, Alexander Graham,
567

Belloc, Hilaire,
12

Benedict XIII, Pope,
401

Bentley, Edmund,
29

Benz, Karl,
510

Berlin Wall,
550

Bible,
81
n

New Testament,
14
,
255
,
325

Old Testament,
see
Hebrew Bible

Bierce, Ambrose,
26

Bin Wong,
18

Birmingham University,
22

Black Death,
see
bubonic plague

Black Hand,
526
,
605

Blombos Cave (Africa),
64

Blue Gene supercomputers,
596

Bodhisattvas,
322
,
329

Bohemia,
368

Bolivia,
460

Bolsheviks,
528

Bombay–Calcutta railroad,
507

Bonesetter’s Daughter, The
(Tan),
51

Boniface VIII, Pope,
398

Boniface IX, Pope,
401

Book of Changes
,
479

Book of Lord Shang
,
257

Book of Martyrs
(Fox),
436

Borneo,
127

Boswell, James,
490
–91,
495

Botox,
594

Boulton, Matthew,
491
–93,
495
–97,
502
,
504
,
567
,
568
,
573

Bourbons,
551

Boxer Rebellion,
211
,
525

Boyne, battle of,
20

Brain Interface Project,
595

Brando, Marlon,
520
n

Brazil,
430
,
520

Brezhnev, Leonid,
542

Britain,
33
,
35
,
39
–40,
158
,
347
,
398
,
404
,
451
,
466
–70,
472
,
521
,
525
,
534
–37,
553
,
608
,
610
,
611
,
615

American colonies of,
463
–64

China and,
7
–15,
25
,
40
,
143
,
145
,
147
–48,
211
,
484
,
506
,
515
–18,
520
,
524
,
572
–73

Christianity in,
353

civil service of,
339
n;

Civil War in,
452
–53

emigration to North America from,
509

Enlightenment thought in,
468
–73

exploration and,
416

farming in,
290
,
368
–69

French wars against,
486
–89,
500

Habsburgs and,
461

India and,
7
,
273
–75,
339
n
,
495

industrial revolution in,
13
,
19
–21,
25
,
40
,
379
,
382
,
494
–98,
500
,
501
–507,
510
–12,
572
,
597
,
620

Ireland and,
450
,
451
,
505

medieval,
194

plague in,
397

prehistoric,
80
,
189

privateers from,
462
–63

Renaissance in,
419

Roman,
274
,
290
,
307
,
311
,
314
,
320

Royal Navy of,
148
,
511
,
517

social development of,
147
–49,
157
,
159
–60,
163
,
168

trade of,
466
–67,
485

Victorian,
136
,
506
,
513

Vikings in,
371

and World Wars,
528
–29

British Broadcasting Company (BBC),
475

British East India Company,
7
,
484
,
515

bronze,
208
–10,
212
–14,
221
,
231
–34,
410

for coins,
251
,
377
–78

for ritual vessels,
208
,
210
,
212
,
221
,
231
–33,
243

for tools,
181
,
234

for weapons,
128
,
181
,
191
,
200
,
208
,
234
,
396

Brunelleschi, Filippo,
438

bubonic plague (Black Death),
396
–401,
420
,
437
,
505
,
520
,
574
,
603