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19 And They Lived Happily Ever After
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Abbasid caliphate 199, 364
Aboriginal Australians 16, 25, 44, 59, 234, 277, 281, 301, 378
Achaemenid Persian Empire 220–1
Aché people 52–3
Aemilianus, Scipio 188, 189, 263
Afghanistan 169, 262, 314, 366, 369, 371
Africa viii, 4, 5, 6, 8, 13–19, 15, 20, 21, 44, 48, 64, 65, 67, 69, 71, 72, 77, 78, 98, 111, 135, 135, 140, 156, 167, 173, 174, 178, 194, 200, 201, 202, 203, 209, 214, 218, 222, 241, 275, 279, 280, 281, 284, 287, 288, 290, 291, 292, 296, 318, 330–1, 332, 333, 343, 371, 376, 378, 415
Afro-Asian World 63, 64, 67, 72, 92, 153, 167, 168, 169, 170, 173, 184, 218, 223, 244, 263, 286
Agricultural Revolution, The viii, 3, 39, 42, 44, 46, 47, 48, 51, 58, 59, 72, 74, 75–159, 174–5, 211, 212, 333, 341, 355, 377, 398
Ahura Mazda 221
Akhenaten, Pharaoh 217
Akkadian Empire of Sargon the Great ix, 103, 129, 129n, 194, 195
Alabama 141–2, 154
Alamogordo, first atomic bomb detonated at, 1945 245, 249, 274
Alaska 69, 70, 78, 194, 196, 296
Alba (green fluorescent rabbit) 398–9
Aldrin, Buzz 285
Alexander the Great 112, 146, 157, 196, 290
Algeria 156, 297, 369, 370, 371, 377
‘alpha male’ 25–6, 33, 34, 35, 115, 155, 171
Altamira, cave art of 100
Alyattes of Lydia, King 182
Amazon 62, 70, 368
America viii, ix, 30, 59, 63, 64, 67, 69–72, 77, 78, 98, 168, 170, 184, 198, 279, 284, 286–8, 289, 291–6, 304, 316–17, 325, 330 see also United States
American Indians/Native Americans 71, 133, 151, 170, 171, 283, 285–6, 378
Anatolia 103, 182
Andean World 168, 196
Angra Mainyu 221
animals:
biological engineering of 398–402, 400
cruelty to 91–7, 94, 96, 341–6, 415
domestication of viii, 45–6, 47, 51, 77–8, 91–7, 94, 96
extinction of viii, ix, 65–74, 97, 305, 350, 351
industrial agriculture and 341–6, 343, 350, 379
Animism 54–5, 211–13, 218, 223
Apollo II 64, 285, 287, 412
Arab Empire 130, 194, 199, 201, 202, 203, 239, 241, 252, 262, 283, 284
Arab Spring, 2011 240
Arabian peninsula 14, 218
Arabic numerals 130
Arctic 36, 59, 67, 69, 70, 73, 317, 401
Argentina 57, 70, 126, 168, 170, 371
Aristotle 134, 136
Armenians 192, 365
arms race 243
Armstrong, Neil 285, 304, 376
Arthur, King 114, 164
Aryan race 138, 139, 140, 232–6, 302–3
Asia 6, 8, 14, 15, 21, 63, 65, 67, 71, 77, 140, 166, 167, 169, 170, 178, 184, 194, 209, 215, 218, 221, 222, 227, 279–80, 281, 282, 287, 288, 296, 299, 302, 315–16, 317, 318, 321, 369, 370 see also Afro-Asia
Assyrian Empire 103, 153, 192, 194, 195, 354
Atahualpa 295–6
Athens, ancient 146, 149, 152, 190, 191, 290, 371
Atman 214
atomic bomb 245, 245, 249, 261–2, 274, 338, 372 see also nuclear physics
Augustine, St 193, 393
Augustus, Emperor 157
Aurelius, Emperor Marcus 200
Australia viii, 16, 21, 25, 44, 48, 59, 62, 63, 64–9, 72, 78, 98, 168, 234, 276–8, 281, 301, 304, 378,
Australian World 168
Australopithecus 5–6
Aztec Empire 55, 153, 168, 173, 190–1, 215, 219, 284, 291, 292–5, 293, 374
Babylon 105–6, 108, 115, 116, 376
Babylonian Empire 103, 104, 105–7, 108, 111, 115, 116, 120, 193, 194, 195, 298, 299, 364, 376
Bacon, Francis 259
Banks, Joseph 276, 278, 301
barbarians 171–2
Barí Indians 41
Battuta, Ibn 169
Beagle, HMS 284–5
bees 22, 25, 119–20, 171, 398
Behistun Inscription 298
Berbers 201, 202, 203
Bernoulli, Jacob 256–7
Bible 127, 145, 182, 223, 251, 252, 255, 266, 285, 287
Big Bang 3, 252, 411
Bin Laden, Osama 172, 262
binary script 131, 132
bio-dictatorships 401
biofuel 249, 401
biology:
birth of viii, 3
biological determinism 146–7
biological engineering 398–402, 400, 403
equality and 109–10
gender and 146–50, 152, 153–4
happiness and 380, 385–90, 391, 394, 395
history of 37–9
race and 134, 135, 136, 139, 140–1, 144, 145, 146, 232, 235, 236, 302–4
bionic arms 405–6, 406
biotechnology 315
bonobos 33, 41, 56, 158
Brahmins 135–6, 137, 143, 144
brains 8–9, 10, 11, 12–13, 14, 20–1, 29, 40, 49, 78, 119–22, 127, 129, 131, 252, 262, 389, 403, 407, 409
British East India Company 205, 325, 331–2
British Empire 190, 192, 198, 199–200, 204–6, 205, 278–9, 297–302, 324–6, 368–70
Buddhism ix, 10, 34, 127, 172, 198, 210, 223, 224–7, 225, 228, 229, 230, 238, 251, 349, 394–5, 396
Buka 64
Byron, Lord 326
Byzantines 239, 262
Caesar, Julius 157, 170
Caledonian tribes 193–4
Calgacus 193–4
California 372–3, 373
Caligula, Emperor 95–6
capitalism ix, 112, 134, 168, 169, 198, 203, 208, 230, 240, 250, 254, 264, 274, 282, 283, 304, 305–33, 334, 347–9, 373–4, 377 see also money
Caribbean Islands 71–2, 291, 292, 295 see also under individual island name
Carthage 188, 190, 263, 290
Çatalhöyük, Anatolia 103
Catholic Church 27, 31, 34, 35, 137, 154, 156, 174, 179, 189, 216, 220, 318
Celts 188, 189, 199, 220, 300, 302
Central America 70, 78, 88, 126, 168, 196, 292
Cervantes, Miguel de: The Siege of Numantia 189
Chak Tok Ich’aak of Tikal, King 167
chaotic systems 240
Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Cave, France 1, 100, 123, 376
chemistry, beginning of viii, 3
Chhatrapati Shivaji train station, Mumbai 205, 205
child mortality 10, 52, 269, 333, 379
childbirth 10, 145
childrearing 10, 84, 86–7
chimpanzees viii, 4, 5, 9, 12, 25, 26, 32, 33, 34, 38, 41, 56, 111, 115, 148, 155, 158, 171, 236, 350, 383, 398, 414
China 18, 34, 48, 51, 78, 83, 103, 126, 128, 135, 144, 156, 184, 194, 196–7, 201, 239, 244, 262, 263, 280, 281, 282, 283, 290, 296, 316, 325–6, 336, 357–8, 379
chivalry 164
Christianity ix, 10, 20, 38, 109, 112, 147, 164, 165–6, 172, 173–4, 185, 186–7, 201, 215–16, 217–20, 219, 222, 223, 228, 230, 231, 236, 237, 238–9, 240, 241, 242, 244, 251, 252, 265–6, 266–7, 278, 288, 330, 331, 349, 374, 393, 413
Church, Professor George 402
Cicero 193
Claudius, Emperor 200
Cleopatra of Egypt 153, 384
Code of Hammurabi, 1776 BC 104, 105–7, 108, 110–11, 113, 120, 127, 133, 134, 182, 364
cognitive dissonance 164–6
Cognitive Revolution, The viii, 1–74, 171, 250, 355, 376, 403
coinage ix, 174, 177, 178, 180, 182–3, 183, 184, 186, 187, 209, 244, 307, 312, 319, 320, 376
Columbus, Christopher 64, 247, 272, 284, 286–7, 288, 290, 291, 292, 304, 316–17
Communism 34, 144, 165, 176, 203, 228, 229, 234, 235, 236, 242, 253, 271, 274, 333, 369, 377, 379, 413
communities:
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lapse of 355–64, 382
imagined 362–4
Confucianism 223, 251, 255, 259, 264, 349
Congo Free State 332, 333
conquest, the mentality of 283–6
Constantine, Emperor 215, 238, 239, 263
consumerism 115–16, 347–9, 362, 363
Cook Islands 73
Cook, Captain James 276, 278–9, 281, 284, 301
cooperation, social 22–4, 27–8, 32–6, 37, 38–9, 46, 102–5, 119, 133, 159, 187
Copernicus, Nicolaus 275
corporations 28, 30, 32, 36, 274, 310, 322, 330, 342
Cortés, Hernan 173, 185, 291–4, 295
cowry shells 177, 177, 178, 179, 180, 183, 185, 186
credit 271, 280, 308–11, 315, 316, 317, 318, 321, 324, 326, 327–8, 329
Crusades 164
Cuba 71, 292, 295
cultures, human:
‘authentic’ 169
biological laws and 38, 146–8, 153–4
birth of 3, 18, 37, 163
clash of 169, 303–4
constant flux of 163–4
contradictions in 164–6
empires spread a common culture 197–208, 237 see also empires
global culture, emergence of a single 168–72, 237
history and 37, 163, 166–70, 237, 241–4
ideal of progress and 264–6
memetics (cultures as mental infections) 242–4
universal orders and 172, 173–236 see also under individual order
cuneiform 126, 298
cyborg engineering 399, 404–7, 406, 409, 411
Cynics 112, 223
Cyrus the Great of Persia 194–5, 196, 197
Dani, the 82
Danube Valley 60, 60n
Daoism 223, 229, 263
Darius I, King 298
Darwin, Charles 18, 234–5, 252, 258, 272, 283, 285, 302, 393, 397, 399
David, King 193
Declaration of Independence, US, 1776 18, 105, 105, 107–9, 110, 133
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) 404–5
demography 48, 69–70, 88, 89, 258, 280, 305
denarius coin 183, 184