Why the West Rules--For Now (129 page)

in Byzantium,
346
–48

in China,
355
,
397
,
401
,
405

in Europe,
397
–99,
427
,
438
,
446
,
447
,
455
,
466
,
467
,
506

in Islamic nations,
397
,
398

Buddha,
255
,
256
,
262
,
274
,
322
,
324
,
375
–76,
398
,
404
–405,
440

Buddhism,
255
,
256
,
263
,
351
,
357
,
393
,
395
,
420
,
437
,
525
,
563

in Bactria,
271

in China,
321
–23,
326
,
328
–29,
334
,
339
–42,
375
–76,
378
,
419
,
423
–24,
478
,
543
,
546

Christianity compared with,
324
–28

in Japan,
440

Mahayana,
322
,
324
,
325

Bulgaria,
313

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
,
608

Bush, George W.,
588

Business Week
,
553

Byzantine Empire,
317
,
343
–49,
363
,
373
,
457
,
566
,
616

Arabs and,
352
,
356
–57

religious conflicts in,
352
,
361
–62

Turkic attacks on,
366
,
372
,
401
,
403

Caboto, Giovanni (John Cabot),
416
,
417
,
430

Caesar, Julius,
228
,
283
,
419

Caffa (Crimea),
397

Cairo (Egypt),
359
n
,
364
,
371
,
392

Calicut (India),
429
,
431

California, University of; Davis,
19

Irvine,
18
,
20

Los Angeles,
18
n

California Institute of Technology,
18
n

“California School” of history,
19
–20

Caligula, Emperor,
307

Calvinism,
448

Cambodia,
360

Cambridge University,
23
,
107
,
365
,
475
–76,
581

Cambyses, King,
249

Canada,
601

Candide
(Voltaire),
280

Cann, Rebecca,
71

Cao Cao,
303
–304

Cao Xueqin,
503

Carlson, Robert,
596
n

Carlson’s Curve,
596

Carlyle, Thomas,
472

Carpenter’s Gap (Australia),
77

Carthage,
242
,
250
,
268
,
270
,
315
–17,
345

Casanova, Giovanni Giacomo,
540

Çatalhöyük (Turkey),
100
,
102
,
105
,
123
,
124

Catholicism,
20
,
362
,
372
,
398
–99,
401
,
404
,
448
,
453
,
477
–78

Cavalli-Sforza, Luca,
110
–12

Çayönü (Turkey),
102
–103,
105
,
125

Chang, Kwang-chih,
124
,
125
,
204
,
205
,
208

Chang’an (China),
153
,
289
,
293
n
,
298
–99,
305
,
306
,
321
,
337
–38,
340
,
342
,
355
,
359
,
377

Chariots of the Gods?
(von Däniken),
182
,
410

Charlemagne,
362
–63,
370
,
403
n
,
446

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor,
446
–49,
573

Chauvet Cave (France),
74
–77,
79

Cheng, King,
230
,
232

Chengdu (China),
334
,
605

Chennai (India),
274

Chen Zilong,
473
n

Chernobyl disaster,
549

Chicago,
509
,
604

Chicago, University of,
23

Childe, Gordon,
233

China,
17
–20,
23
,
24
,
345
,
449
,
494
,
514
,
528
,
538
,
568
,
604
,
608
–12

ancient,
34
,
122
–26,
137
,
201
–15,
220
–23,
228
–38,
240
,
242
–45,
251
–53,
261
,
278
–79,
311
,
318
,
562
(see
also
Qin)

Boxer rebellion in,
525

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

Buddhism in,
321
–23,
326
,
328
–29,
334
,
339
–42,
375
–76,
378
,
419
,
423
–24,
478
,
543
,
546