Why the West Rules--For Now (131 page)

in Roman Empire,
263
,
323
,
326
–28

schism within,
447
–49

Christmas Carol, A
(Dickens),
170
,
584

Chronicle of Chinese Emperors, The
(Paludan),
283
n

Chu (China),
244
–45,
251
,
253
,
262
,
265
n
,
524

Chuci,
293
n

Churchill, Winston,
13
,
266
,
511
,
534
,
579

Cialis,
594

Cicero,
420
,
482

Cimmerians,
277

Cishan (China),
122

Civil War, U.S.,
10

Cixi, Dowager Empress,
523

Clan of the Cave Bear
(Auel),
57
–59,
69

Clarissa
(Richardson),
503

Clarke, Arthur C.,
63
,
149
,
182
,
194

Cleese, John,
286

Clement XI, Pope,
479

Cleopatra,
283
,
284

climate change,
97
,
180
,
206
,
218
,
238
,
290
,
418
–20,
451
,
604
,
610

prehistoric,
54
n
,
56
,
64
,
67

social development and,
223
–25,
277
,
304
,
459
,
560
,
562
,
611
;
see also
global warming

coal,
287
,
290
,
451
,
482
,
506
,
511
,
524
,
537
,
561
,
592
,
611

in China,
155
,
287
,
374
,
381
–82,
387
,
392
,
493
,
545

industrialization and,
11
,
20
,
21
,
100
,
379
,
494
–95,
498
,
500
,
510

transportation powered by,
147
,
507
–508,
565

Coca-Cola Corporation,
548

Cohn-Bendit, Daniel,
106

Cold War,
526
,
535
,
546
,
608

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor,
392

Collapse
(Diamond),
621

Collection of Biographies of Famous Women
(Wu Zetian),
340

Collège de France,
106

Cologne Cathedral,
187

Columbian Exchange,
295
–96,
464

Columbus, Christopher,
16
,
17
,
19
,
22
,
228
,
385
,
414
,
416
,
417
,
422
,
429
,
430
,
464
,
589

communism,
11
,
15
–16,
505
,
531
,
533
,
534
,
541
,
570
,
579

Chinese,
51
–52,
149
,
212
,
534
,
543
–49,
579
,
588
,
606

collapse of,
549
–51

Communist Manifesto, The
(Marx and Engels),
506
,
514

Comnena, Anna,
372

Complete Collection of Illustrations and Writings from the Earliest to Current Times
(Kangxi),
477

Confucianism,
10
,
255
,
256
,
260
,
263
,
282
n
,
323
,
345
,
406
,
477
,
516
,
521
,
546
,
571
,
589

in Asian Tigers,
543

freethinker challenges to,
320
–21

French Enlightenment and,
472

hierarchical universe of,
285

Legalism and,
259

Neo-,
376

rituals of,
204
,
302

social development and,
327
,
570

women and,
339
,
340

Confucius,
14
,
124
,
148
,
255
–59,
262
,
420
,
423
,
426
,
589
,
590

Congo,
519
–20

Congress, U.S.,
8

Budget Office,
586

Conrad, Joseph,
519
,
520

Constantine, Emperor,
328
,
329

Constantinople,
312
,
317
,
343
,
348
,
349
,
352
–53,
371
–73,
445
,
482
n

and fall of Roman Empire,
314
–16,
319

Ottoman assault on,
403
,
438
,
444

plague in,
346
,
347

Cook, Earl,
154
–57

Coppola, Francis Ford,
520
n

Cort, Henry,
497

Cortés, Hernán,
17
,
413
,
417
,
422
,
426
,
430
,
432
,
433
,
460

Cossacks,
459

Crassus,
292
–93

Crete,
189
,
196
,
197
,
239