Why the West Rules--For Now (148 page)

Tell Brak (Syria),
181
,
184

Tell Leilan (Syria),
192
,
193
,
206

Temps modernes, Les
(journal),
106

Temujin,
388

Tenochtitlán,
417
,
421
,
426
,
429
,
431
–33,
460

Terracotta Army,
282
,
285

Teshik-Tash (Uzbekistan),
59

Thailand,
120
,
127
,
534

Thebes (Egypt),
193
,
194
,
215
,
219

Theodora, Empress,
344
,
345
,
363
n

Theodosius, Emperor,
315
,
326

Three Dynasties Chronology Project,
201
,
214

Thucydides,
268
,
296

Tiananmen Square massacre,
549
,
586

Tibet,
458

Tierra del Fuego,
139

Tiglath-Pileser III, King,
245
–49,
269
,
303
,
316
,
335
,
567

Tilley, Christopher,
141

Tinghai (China),
145
,
148

Tokyo,
501
n
,
503
,
523
,
524

population of,
149
,
152
,
482
n

Tolkien, J.R.R.,
53

Tolstoy, Leo,
113
,
284

Tomyris, Queen of Massagetae,
278

Tongling (China),
210

Treasure Fleets,
408
,
416
,
426
,
429

Treasury Bonds, U.S.,
585

Treatise on Agriculture
(Wang Zhen),
379
,
420
n

Tripitaka (“Three Baskets” of Buddhist canon),
256

Trobriand Islands,
133
,
137

Troy,
199
,
241

True Levellers,
452

Tunisia,
315
,
364

Turkana Boy,
45
,
52
,
57

Turkey,
81
,
97
,
197
n
,
431
,
443
–46,
452
,
453
,
459
–61,
528
,
605
n

archaeological sites in,
96
,
100
,
102
–103,
105
,
123
–25

modernization of,
571

Turkic peoples,
348
,
349
,
354
–56,
358
,
361
,
364
,
366
–67,
372
,
567
; Ottoman,
see
Ottomans

Turkmenistan,
125
,
189

2001: A Space Odyssey
(Clarke),
63
,
149
,
182
,
183

Ugarit (Syria),
216
,
217
,
220
,
225

Ukraine,
196
,
295
,
458

Uluburun (Anatolia),
200

’Umar,
351

Undefeated Sun,
323

United Arab Emirates,
605
n

United Monarchy,
234

United Nations,
150
,
610

Food and Agriculture Organization,
601

Human Development Index,
145
–47,
149
–50

Intergovernmental Panel on

Climate Change (IPCC),
599

United States,
31
,
35
,
158
,
488
,
531
,
601
n
,
604
,
605
,
612
,
634

carbon emissions of,
18
,
538
,
609

China and,
518
,
546
–47,
585
–88,
606

diseases in,
603

economy of,
12
,
34
,
225
,
529
–31,
535
,
540
–41,
542
,
553
,
578
,
582
,
588
,
597
,
598
,
615

emigration to,
509
,
603

impact of climate change in,
600

industrialization in,
510
,
521

Japan and,
10
,
534

military spending in,
548
,
631

neo-evolutionary theory in,
138
–39

nuclear weapons and,
605
–606,
608
,
616

September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on,
551

Soviet Union and,
526
,
527
,
533
–35,
540
–42,
550
,
580
,
616

technology in,
542
,
594
,
597
,
615

in Vietnam War,
535

in World War I,
529

in World War II,
52
,
532
,
533
,
579

Universal History
(Polybius),
263
–64

Ur (Mesopotamia),
193
–94

Royal Cemetery of,
188
–89

Urartu,
248

Urban II, Pope,
372

Uruk (Mesopotamia),
181
–88,
190
,
192
,
194
,
203
,
206
,
207
,
210
,
223
,
229
,
562
,
610