INDEX
| Abacus, 224 | |
| Abbasid caliphs, 195 | |
| Abu Hureyra, 91–92, 95, 96, 103, 134 | |
| Abu-Lughod, Janet, 149 | |
| Accounting, 228 | |
| Acorns, 132–33 | |
| Adad-Nirari II, 196 | |
| Adams, Robert McC., 153 | |
| Adrianople, battle of, 189 | |
| Agricultural revolution, 94 | |
| ‘Ain Mallaha, 65 | |
| Aircraft carriers, 178, 179, 197 | |
| AK-47, 178 | |
| Å;kerman, K., 152 | |
| Akhenaten, 140 | |
| Akkadian Empire, 99, 153, 170, 250–51 | |
| Alexandria, 152, 256 | |
| Allen, Robert, 64, 65, 81, 121 | |
| Alternating Fields Method, 124 | |
| Amarna, 140 | |
| Amsterdam, 114 | |
| An Lushan, 127, 209 | |
| Anyang, 136, 137, 163–64, 165 | |
| Approximation, 39, 44, 106 | |
| Arab conquests, 83, 89, 190 | |
| Arctic Small Tool tradition, 256 | |
| Aristotle, 152 | |
| Assyrian Empire, 140, 194, 196 | |
| Athens, 18, 67, 146; literacy, 232 | |
| Augustus, 192, 204 | |
| Aztecs, 255–56 |
| B-2 stealth bomber, 179 | |
| Ba River, 160 | |
| Babylon, 67, 101, 152–53, 161, 164 | |
| Bachrach, Bernard, 187–88 | |
| Baghdad, 150 | |
| Bairoch, Paul, 149, 156–57, 161 | |
| Baiyinchanghan, 132 | |
| Banpo, 133–34 | |
| Basta, 154 | |
| Battle of ancients and moderns, 252 | |
| Battleships, 179 | |
| Bayonets, 186 | |
| Beeches Pit, 90 | |
| Beidha, 154 | |
| Beijing, 44, 156–57, 165, 166, 173, 206; population, 154, 171; wages, 114 | |
| Benn, Charles, 158 | |
| Biddle, Stephen, 183 | |
| Big Bang of Human Consciousness, 218 | |
| Biological evolution. See evolution | |
| Biomass, 56, 59, 63, 64, 67, 69, 70, 71, 75, 76, 113 | |
| Biomes, 257, 259 | |
| Black Death, 149, 188 | |
| Boas, Franz, 8–9 | |
| Bows and arrows, 256. See also longbows | |
| Boxer Rebellion, 200 | |
| Braudel, Fernand, 154 | |
| Bronze. See metallurgy | |
| Bronze vessels, ancient Chinese, 136 | |
| Brown, Peter, 83–84 | |
| Buck, John, 120 | |
| Buddhism, 127 | |
| Burials, 14, 17 | |
| Byzantium, 85, 208 |
| Caesar, Julius, 190, 245 | |
| Cao Cao, 159 | |
| Cairo, 149–50 | |
| Cameron, Averil, 151 | |
| Carneiro, Robert, 13–14, 17, 23, 50, 51, 257–58 |
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Book title: The Measure of Civilization: How Social Development Decides the Fate of Nations.
Contributors: Ian Morris - Author.
Publisher: Princeton University Press.
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ.
Publication year: 2013.
Page number: 375.
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