Why the West Rules--For Now (142 page)

trade of,
365
,
395
,
429
;
see also
Islam

Mussi, Gabriele de’,
397
n

Mutual Assured Destruction,
580

Mycenaeans,
197
,
198

Nagasaki (Japan),
435
,
483
,
515
,
532
,
610
,
614
,
617

Nanjing,
407
,
410
,
413
,
416
,
422
,
423
,
442
,
475
;
see also
Jiankang

Napoleon, Emperor,
403
n
,
486
,
488
–89,
532
,
551
,
572

Naram-Sin, King,
189
,
192

Nariokotome (Kenya),
45

Narmer, King,
185
–87

Naroll, Raoul,
139
,
140
,
144
,
151

National Geographic
(magazine),
125

National Intelligence Council, U.S.,
582
,
601
,
602

Nationalists, Chinese,
51
,
534

National Science Foundation,
595

Native Americans,
19
,
109
,
119
,
430
,
450
,
464
,
522

Neanderthals,
54
–61,
64
,
69
–70,
72
,
75
,
80
,
88
,
89
,
150

Needham, Joseph,
475
–76,
479

Nefertiti, Queen of Egypt,
261

Nemesis
(ship),
9
,
517

Neo-Confucians,
376
,
422

Nero, Emperor,
307

Nerchinsk (Siberia),
455
,
457
,
458

Nesbit, Edith,
182

Netherlands,
160
,
446
,
448
,
450

English wars with,
500
,
573
,
574

trade of,
465
–67,
483
,
485
,
486

New Age,
261
n

Newfoundland,
416

New Guinea,
116
,
117
,
119
,
133

New Policies,
376
,
422

Newton, Isaac,
113
,
470
,
474
,
481
,
500
,
573
,
574

New York City,
152
,
509
,
541

railroad from San Francisco to,
507

New Yorker
magazine,
613

New York Times, The
,
551
,
610

New York Tribune
,
15

New Zealand,
519

Nicaragua,
421

Nicholas II, Tsar,
524
,
525
,
528

“Nightfall” (Asimov),
92
–93,
580

Nineveh,
247
,
248
,
278

Niuheliang (China),
126

Nixon, Richard M.,
541
,
546
–48,
552

Noah’s Flood
(Ryan and Pitman),
81
n

Nobel Prize,
55
,
571
,
583
,
593

Normans,
364
,
371
–72

Norsemen,
371
,
398

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO),
605

Northern Wei kingdom,
329
,
333
,
335
–36,
362

North Korea,
12
,
16
,
194
,
534

Norway,
146
,
147
,
398

Novum Organum
(Bacon),
468

Nubians,
247

nuclear weapons,
12
,
182
,
532
,
534
,
580
,
591
,
605
,
607
,
608
,
610
,
614
,
616

“Nylon Wars, The” (Riesman),
540

Octavian,
see
Augustus

Odoacer, King,
316
–17

Ögödei, Khan,
389
,
391
,
393

oil,
510
–11,
528
,
531
,
537
,
551
,
601
,
604
,
611
,
630
,
633

Arab states’ embargo on,
535
,
548

world demand for,
612

Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania),
43
,
47

Old World Exchange,
296
–98,
301
,
307
,
308
,
316
,
321
,
327
–29,
347
,
393
,
395
,
396
,
401
,
563

Second,
393
–97,
399
–401,
564

Oliver Twist
(Dickens),
506

Olympic Games,
12
,
594

On Christian Theology
(Aquinas),
371

On the Origin of Species
(Darwin),
73
,
136

Opium War,
7
–9,
18
,
143
,
517

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development,
583

Organization for European Economic Cooperation,
533
n

Orwell, George,
530

Osman II, Sultan,
452

Ottomans,
401
–403,
431
,
438
,
442
–49,
462
,
489
,
526
,
528
,
574
,
605
;
see also
Turkey