Why the West Rules--For Now (132 page)

Crimea,
57
,
81
,
395
,
397

Crompton, Samuel,
496

Crosby, Alfred,
22
,
295
,
464

Crusades,
19
,
372
–73,
427

Cuba,
416
,
462

missile crisis,
580

Cyprus,
107
,
216
,
218
,
233
,
239

Cyrus, King,
248
–50,
279
,
292

Czech Republic,
446

Daimler, Gottlieb,
510

Dai Zhen,
481

Damascus,
246
,
248
,
357
,
397
,
401

Dao’an,
323
,
325

Daoguang, Emperor,
6
–10,
516

Daoism,
11
,
255
–59,
261
,
302
,
321
,
327
,
374
–75

Darius, King,
249
–50,
267
–68,
278
,
292
,
294
,
457

Dark Age Cold Period,
297
,
304

Darwin, Charles,
45
,
73
,
136
,
139

David, King,
234
,
235

Davies, Norman,
41
,
116

Day After Tomorrow, The
(film),
91
–92

Decius, Emperor,
328

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), U.S.,
595
,
597

Defense Department, U.S.,
550
–51

Defoe, Daniel,
455
,
486
,
495
–96

De Gaulle, Charles,
106

Deng Xiaoping,
547
–49,
552
,
567

deoxyribonucleic acid,
see
DNA

Descartes, René,
468
,
574

Dharmaraksa,
321
–22

Diamond, Jared,
17
,
21
,
621

Diaotonghuan Cave (China),
121
–22

Dias, Bartolomeu,
414
,
416

Dickens, Charles,
170
,
503
–504,
506
,
514
,
553
,
583

Din, Rashid al-,
393

Dinggong (China),
203

Diocletian, Emperor,
311

Di people,
244
,
263

Discover
(magazine),
125

disease,
10
,
17
,
224
,
302
,
317
,
346
,
418
,
459
,
560
,
598
,
604
,
610
,
611

farming and,
109

population decline and,
392
,
397
,
454

resistance to,
538

spread of,
88
,
308
,
603
(see also
epidemics; plagues)

Disraeli, Benjamin,
163

Di Xin, King,
212
,
221
–22

Djoser, King,
187

Dmanisi (Georgia),
47
,
49

DNA,
58
,
60
n
,
70
–73,
98
,
110
–12,
118
,
273
,
342
,
595
,
596
,
603

DolníVestonice (Czech Republic),
79

Domesday Book
,
368

Donglin Academy,
473

Dongxiafeng (China),
209

Dong Zhuo,
302
–303

Douglas, David,
612

Drake, Francis,
463

Drake Equation,
614

Dream of the Red Chamber
(Cao Xueqin),
503

drought,
193
,
206
,
217
,
224
–25,
405
,
601

Drug Enforcement Agency, U.S.,
8

Dunhuang (China),
321
,
338

Dutch,
see
Netherlands

East Germany,
550

Economist, The
(magazine),
135
–36,
506
–507,
520

Eddington, Arthur,
145
,
150

Edo (Japan),
482
n
,
483
;
see also
Tokyo

education,
146
,
147
,
510
,
513
,
540
,
553
,
570

mass,
506
,
523

Egypt,
33
,
159
,
182
,
234
,
235
,
273
,
323
,
325
,
349
,
369
,
431
,
605
n

agriculture in,
107
,
250
,
360

archaelogical sites in,
201
,
202
,
222
,
274
,
275
,
282
,
289

Assyria and,
247
,
248

breakup of ancient state of,
239
,
243

Christianity in,
352

Great Pyramid of,
370

hieroglyphic texts of,
137
,
285
,
187
,
217
,
240

Hyksos invasion of,
197
,
198

impact of climate change on,
184
–85,
206
,
335

Mongol invasion of,
392