Index A Aboriginal people 13, 77, 94, 95, 124 Abu Simbel 23, 45 Acropolis 44 Actium, battle of 39 Afghanistan 25 Africa ancient 16, 14–17 colonial rule 116, 118 early humans 8–9, 12–13 great kingdoms 68–69 railroads 116–17 scramble for 118, 119 slave trade 90–91 World War II 138 agriculture ancient 7, 14–15 medieval 72 modern 90 Ain Jalut, battle of 62 air-conditioning 120 air raids 128, 138, 141 aircraft 120, 124, 132–33 Aksum, Kingdom of 69 Alamo, battle of the 108 Aldrin, Buzz 151 Alexander the Great 7, 32–33 Alfonso XI of Castille and Léon 65–66 Algeria 134 alphabets 20, 21 Alvarado, Pedro de 81 Amazonia 71 American Revolutionary War 76, 92–93 Americas 15th-century 70–71 ancient 6, 9, 17, 14, 20, 26–27 conquistadors 76, 80–81 see also North America; South America Amritsar massacre 125, 144 Amundsen, Roald 124, 126–27 anesthetics 120 ancient world 4–47 timeline 6–7 wonders of 44–45 Andes Mountains 101, 116–17 animals domestication 14, 15 evolution 102–03 Ice Age 10–11 in Pacific islands 43 Annam 63 Antarctica 126–27 Antietam, battle of 113 Antioch, siege of 61 Anzio, battle of 138 apartheid 124 Apollo missions 150–51 aqueducts 46
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Argentina 12 Arkwright, Richard 104, 105, 120 Armstrong, Neil 124, 150, 151 ARPAnet 124, 152 art, cave 7, 12–13 Artemis, Temple of 7, 44 Artesian wells 72 Asante Empire 68 astronauts 148–51 Atahualpa 81 Athens 28–29 Atlantic, battle of the 138 atomic bombs 138, 139 Australia British colonies 119 early humans 8, 13 gold rushes 77, 111 Great Depression 135 railroads 117 transportation to 76, 94–95 World War II 139 Austro-Hungarian Empire 107, 118, 129 Aztec Empire 48–49, 51, 70, 71, 80, 86
B Babylon 7, 25, 30, 31, 33, 41, 45, 46 Baghdad 52, 62, 63 Balboa, Vasco Núñez de 81 balloons 132, 133 Barents, William 79 Bastille, storming of the 96 HMS Beagle 102, 103 Beijing Olympics 124–25 Belgium 105 Bell, Alexander Graham 120 Benin 68 Benz, Karl 121 Bering Land Bridge 9, 11 Berlin Airlift 147 Berlin Conference 118 Berlin Wall 125 Berners-Lee, Tim 124, 152, 153 the Bible 40–41 Black Death 51, 64–65 “Black ships” 115 Blackbeard 77, 86, 87 blast furnaces 47 the Blitz 138 Bolívar, Simón 100–01 Bolivia 101 Bolsheviks 130–31 bombers 125, 138, 139, 140–41, 142 Bonaparte, Napoleon see Napoleon I, Emperor Bonny, Anne 76, 87 Boston Tea Party 92 Botany Bay 76, 94, 95 Boulton, Matthew 104
Boyacá, battle of 100 Brazil 77, 100, 101, 110, 134 bricks 46 Brin, Sergey 152 Britain age of exploration 78–79 American colonies 88, 89, 92–93 ancient 10, 16, 24 British Empire 118–19, 144–45 Chartists 106 Great Depression 134 Industrial Revolution 104, 116 medieval 58, 60, 64 railroads 116 Reformation 84 Romans 38 slave trade 91 Vikings 55 Britain, battle of 133, 138 Bronze Age 6, 24–25, 46 Brunel, Isambard Kingdom 75 buccaneers 86–87 Buddhism 50, 56, 57 Bull Run, battle of 113 Bunker Hill, battle of 92 burial mounds 27 Byzantine Empire 50, 55
C Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Núñez 80 Cabot, John 78 Cabral, Pedro Alvares 78 Caesar, Julius 38, 39 Caffa, siege of 65 Cairo 52 calendars Aztec 48–49 Maya 26 California 77, 108, 110, 111, 134 Caliphate 50–51, 68 Callao, Lima, and Oroya Railroad 116–17 Calvin, John 85 Canada 9, 10, 77, 89, 108, 110, 116, 118 Canadian Pacific Railway 116 Cannae, battle of 37, 38 Cano, Juan Sebastian del 79 Cape-to-Cairo Railway 117 Caral 19 Caribbean colonial rule 110, 118 discovery 78, 81 piracy 77, 86–87 Carrier, Willis 120 cars 121, 125 Carthage 36–37, 38 Cartier, Jacques 78 castles 51, 58–59
Catholic Church 84–85 cave art 7, 12–13 cave men 6, 7, 8–9 Champaran Satyagraha 145 Chang’an 56, 57 Charlemagne, Emperor 51 Charles V, Emperor 85 Charleston 89, 92, 113 Chartist movement 106 Chauri Chaura incident 145 Chavín culture 27 child labor 104–05 Chile 9, 101, 134 China ancient 8, 15, 91, 21, 25, 47 golden age 50, 51, 56–57, 59, 63 Great Wall of 34–35 Long March 136–37 rise of 124, 154–55 Silk Road 52–53 Space Age 149–50 treasure fleet 51, 66–67 World War II 139 Chinook 70 chivalry 61 Christianity 7, 40–41, 60–61, 84–85 Churchill, Winston 138 cinema 120 cities, first 7, 18–19 civil rights movement 124 Clermont, Council of 60 clocks 46, 72, 73, 121 cocoa 82, 83 coins 7, 46 Cold War 124, 125, 146–47 Colombia 100, 101 Colosseum 45 Colossus of Memnon 22 Columbian Exchange 82 Columbus, Christopher 54, 70, 76, 78, 79 Communism 130–31, 136–37, 147 compasses 57, 73 Condamine, Charles-Marie de la 120 Confederate States 112–13 Congo Free State 118 conquistadors 58, 76, 80–81 Constantinople 50, 55, 60 Continental Army 92 convicts, transportation of 76, 94–95 Cook, Captain James 42 Coolidge, Calvin 134 copper 24, 25 Coral Sea, battle of the 139 Corte Real, Gaspar and Miguel 78 Cortés, Hernán 51, 58, 80, 81 cotton 90, 104, 105 Council of Trent 85 Cristofori, Bartolomeo 121 crops 14–15, 43, 82–83, 90
