Why the West Rules--For Now (146 page)

Seven Samurai, The
(film),
440
n

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS),
603

Severin, Tim,
421
n

Sexual Politics
(Millett),
540

Shakespeare, William,
436

Shalmaneser, King,
247

Shamshi-Adad V, King,
239

Shandong (China),
202
,
203
,
206
,
207
,
215

Shang, Lord,
259
,
260
,
265

Shang dynasty,
123
,
124
,
209
–15,
220
–22,
229
–31,
235
,
285
,
610

Shanghai (China),
501
n
,
503
,
524
,
548

Shanghai Cooperation Organization,
606

Shangshan (China),
105

Shanidar Cave (Iraq),
57
,
59
,
60

Shanks, Michael,
141

Sharkalisharri, King,
192
,
193

Sheba, Queen of,
234

Sheklesh (Sicilians),
217
,
218

Shen,
243

Shen Fu,
514

Shen Kuo,
419
–20,
589

Sherden (Sardinians),
217
,
218

Sheshonq I, King,
235

Shihuangdi,
267

Shiites,
358
,
364
,
367
,
444
–45,
449
,
574

Shklovskii, Iosif,
613
–14,
617

Shulgi, King,
193
–94

Shunzhi, Emperor,
478

Siberia,
79
,
125
,
455
–58,
460

Sicily,
198
,
200
,
220
,
268
,
277
,
345
,
360
,
365
,
368
,
371

archaeological sites in,
95
,
240
–41,
365
–66

Sic et Non
(Abelard),
371

Sidonius,
314
,
319

Sierra Leone,
146
,
147

Silk Roads,
125
,
275
,
297
,
396
,
427
,
429

silver,
7
,
188
,
275
,
348
,
405
,
411
,
454
,
463
,
515
–16

mining and processing of,
19
,
155
,
268
,
287
,
460
–62

Sima Qian,
211
,
214
,
242
–43,
250
,
282

Singapore,
534
,
588

Singularity, the,
592
–96

Sistine Chapel,
493

Six Million Dollar Man, The
(television show),
594
,
597

Six Records of a Floating Life
(Shen Fu),
514

“Sixteen Kingdoms of the Five Barbarians,”
306

slaves,
286
,
290
,
310
,
372
,
439
,
474

in ancient world,
191
,
194
,
197
,
199
–200

in colonial Americas,
19
,
461
–66,
468

in China,
264
,
273
,
299
,
342

Christian,
403
,
444

of Portuguese,
414
,
416

of Romans,
263
–64,
269
,
273
,
283
,
312

Turkic, armies of,
358
,
361
,
366

in United States,
497

Smalley, Richard,
593

Smerdis,
249

Smil, Vaclav,
608

Smiles, Samuel,
503
,
514

Smith, Adam,
39
–40,
490
,
501
,
511

Smith, Grafton Elliot,
222

Socrates,
14
,
255
,
256
,
260
,
262

Solomon, King,
234
,
235

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr,
457

Somalia,
604

Song dynasty,
373
–83,
389
,
421
,
482
,
543
,
575
,
576
,
590

collapse of,
386
–87,
392
,
611
,
621

Confucianism in,
423

economy of,
378
n
,
377
–80,
386
,
499
,
500
,
564

social development in,
167
,
168
,
455
,
473
,
481
,
607

Song Jian,
201

Sons of Heaven,
236
,
239
,
245

Sophists,
261

South Africa,
47
,
61
,
63
,
519

South Korea,
534
,
543
,
588
,
597

Soviet Union,
526
,
530
–35,
540
–44,
546
–51,
553
,
578
–80,
587
,
604
,
616

Spain,
287
,
309
,
311
,
347
,
353
,
365
,
404
,
466
,
472