Why the West Rules--For Now (140 page)

Lenin, V. I.,
15
,
530
,
543

Leninists,
15
–16

Lenovo,
597

Leo III, Pope,
362

Leonardo da Vinci,
419
,
420
,
589

Leopold, King,
519

Levant,
189
,
248

Levellers,
452
–53

Levitra,
594

Li, King,
233

Liang dynasty,
333

Libya,
218
,
235
,
605
n

Liezi,
258

Li Jianping,
546

Lincoln, Abraham,
594

Ling, Duke,
252
–53

Lingdi, Emperor,
301
,
302

Linnaeus, Carolus,
474

Lin Xin, King,
213

Lin Zexu,
8
,
12

Linzi (China),
251

Li Ruzhen,
514

Lithuania,
455

Little Ice Age,
398

Liu Bang,
283

Liu Daxia,
417

Liujiang (China),
68

Liverpool–Manchester railroad,
509

Locke, John,
471
,
481

London,
39
,
92
,
436
,
451
,
482
,
501
,
502
,
528
,
529

plague in,
455

population of,
152
,
482
n

Longmen (China),
340
,
341

Longwangcan (China),
97

Lord of the Rings, The
(Tolkien), films based on,
53

Los Alamos National

Laboratory,
613

Lost Tribes of Israel,
391

Louis XVI, King,
488

Lu (China),
251
–52,
262

Lü Buwei,
204

Lucky Latitudes,
85
,
114
,
561

Lu Gwei-djen,
475
–76

Luoyang (China),
273
,
299
–302,
305
,
336
,
338

Luoyi (China),
243

Luther, Martin,
447
,
453
,
573

Lydia (Anatolia),
250

Maastricht Treaty,
533
n

Macao,
435
,
477
,
548

Macartney, Lord,
484
,
515
,
572
–73

Macedon,
186
,
268
,
269
,
292
,
524

Machiavelli, Niccolò,
404
,
418
–20

MacNeish, Richard,
120
–21

Maddison, Angus,
582
–83,
587

Madeira Islands,
414

Mafia,
231

Magadha (India),
254
n

Magnificent Seven, The
(film),
440
n

Magyars,
363

Mahavira,
254
n

Majapahit (Java),
393
,
406

Majors, Lee,
594

Malacca,
431
–32

Malaya,
535

Malaya Síya (Siberia),
79

Malaysia,
534
,
567

Malcolm X,
351

Malinowski, Bronislaw,
133
–34,
136

Malta,
189
,
193

Ma’mun, Caliph al-,
357
,
358
,
370

Manchuria,
290
,
335
,
386
,
531

Manchus,
458
,
473
,
478

Manhattan,
465

Mann, James,
588

Man peoples,
245

Maodun,
293

Mao Zedong,
16
,
62
n
,
149
,
423
,
425
n
,
522
,
534
–35,
543
–48,
552
,
553
,
567
,
579
,
589

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Emperor,
273
,
308
–10

Marines, U.S.,
52

Marshall Plan,
533

Marx, Karl,
15
,
21
,
503
–506,
512
–14,
544
,
549
,
566

Massachusetts, colonial,
470

Massagetae,
277
,
278

Mauryan Empire,
284

Mecca,
349
,
351
,
408

Medes,
248
,
278

Medieval Warm Period,
363
,
366
,
367
,
371
,
373
,
376
,
397
,
599

Medina,
349

Meditations, The
(Marcus Aurelius),
308
n

Mehrgarh,
105

Melbourne, Lord,
8
,
12
,
148

Memphis (Egypt),
187

Mencius,
230

Menes,
185

Menzies, Gavin,
408
,
410
,
420
n
,
421

Merneptah, Pharaoh,
218

Merton, Robert,
568

Mesopotamia,
33
,
34
,
179
–84,
203
,
205
,
221
,
235
,
271
,
358
n