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Index

Aachen, 126, 180

‘Abbasid Baghdad, 186, 346

‘ Abbasids, 48,100,166,187,194, 200, 252, 398, 411, 505-6

Caliphate, 24, 168, 199, 211, 213, 238, 252, 346, 402, 406

Court, 180, 195, 199

‘Abd al-Malik, 505

Abd al-Rahman III, 346, 349

Abelard, Peter, 129 absolutism, 99, 113 Abu Ishaq al-Sahilil, 601

Abu-Lughod, Janet, 634, 683

Abu Mufarrij, Shaykh, 299-300, 302

Acciaiuoli, 259, 266

Achaea, 580

adab, 191-2 adaptation, 22, 34-5, 328, 415, 476, 500, 559, 668

Aden, 4, 279, 301-4, 552, 674 administration, 123, 134, 180, 432-3, 532, 534, 539-42, 576-7

centralized, 24, 332, 506, 578 imperial, 33, 555, 644 indirect, 539-40

tax, 561, 570, 575, 577

administrative expertise, 518, 521 administrative models, 32, 381 admirals, 259, 271 Adrianople, 575, 579 adultery, 87 advisers, 73, 184, 515 Aegean Sea, 274, 564 aesthetics, 191, 436

Afghanistan, 26, 165, 373, 375, 396, 406

Africa, 2, 5, 9, 12, 109-10, 340, 342, 415, 562-4 East, see East Africa.

hierarchies and solidarity, 109-12

Horn of, 170, 394, 486

Islam and educational institutions, 135-7 North, see North Africa.

northern, 681-2 sub-Saharan, see sub-Saharan Africa. West, see West Africa.

western coast of, 8, 254

Afro-Eurasia, 31, 33, 142, 667, 670-1, 674-7, 680, 682-3

trade and commerce, 233-54

afterlife, 200, 546

agrarian reformers, 52-3

agricultural growth, 216, 626 agricultural production, 220-1, 246, 318,

336, 531

agricultural societies, 95, 105, 669 agriculture, 20, 45, 53, 97-8, 100, 107, 148,

334-6, 376-7, 669

permanent, 49, 54

rainfed, see rainfed agriculture.

wet-rice, 518, 525

agro-literate societies, 212, 217, 225 agro-urban civilizations, 29, 145, 149-50 Akroinon, 157, 564

Albertus Magnus, 45

alchemy, 125, 340

Aleppo, 72, 134, 354, 391, 432, 571

Alexander the Great, 343-4

Alexandria, 155, 263-4, 269-70, 273-4, 276, 279, 292, 345, 418

Algeria, 402, 606

alliances, 80, 155, 253, 389, 495, 518, 562, 580, 606, 622

marriage, 35, 147, 621, 643

political, 185, 190, 545

Almagest, 347, 349

Almohads, 12, 162

Almoravids, 372, 394, 596, 606-7

Alps, 277, 322

alum, 259, 268, 275, 282, 524

Amalfi, 274, 567

Amaravati, 451, 457

Amaury, king of Jerusalem, 12 ambassadors, 201, 347, 349, 540

Americas, 8,18-19,33-4, 71, 83,117,141-2,174, 328-9

educational institutions, 137-40 hierarchies and solidarity, 109-12 Amoghavajra, 462, 464-5 Anagarika Dharmapala, 477 anal intercourse, 86-7

Anastasius, Emperor, 560, 562

Anatolia, 155, 158, 373, 377, 400, 535, 540, 564, 566, 569

ancestors, 403, 587, 590, 593, 605, 620, 650 Inca, 642, 645, 647-8, 662

Soninke, 590, 593

Ancona, 269, 276

Andahuaylas, 644 al-Andalus, 71, 237, 276, 279, 326, 349, 431, 433,

597

Andalusia, 277, 281, 329

Andes, 638, 642-5, 648, 650, 654-6, 658, 660,

662

Andronikos II, 580-1

angels, 416, 438

Angkor, 16, 60-1

Angkorean Cambodia, 16, 24

animal husbandry, 46

combined with rainfed agriculture, 52-5

Ankara, 582

anthropological approach, 55 anthropologists, 46, 109, 111-12, 310, 592, 610-12

Antioch, 154-5, 160, 274, 418, 420, 569, 571, 575

Antisuyo, 638, 650

Antwerp, 273, 277

apostasy, 430

apostles, 7, 418-19, 422

Apulia, 272, 281, 572

Aquinas, St.

Thomas, 129

Arab, tribes, 394, 400, 402, 405

Arab conquests, 11, 15, 21, 25, 395, 399, 401-2, 411, 430, 433

Arabia, 2, 20, 236, 239, 373, 399-400, 403-4, 411, 559-60

western, 389, 404

Arabian Sea, 290

Arabic, 12-13, 131-2, 297, 299, 345-7, 349-50, 378, 401-2, 409

inscriptions, 297, 436

script, 299, 391, 396, 400

Arabic erotic literature, 88

Arabic science, 341, 353, 356

Arabization, 671, 673, 681

arable land, 334, 371, 472, 670

Arabs, 12-13, 271, 343, 353-4, 368, 399-403,

411-12, 564, 566

warfare, 155-8

Aragon, 276-7, 281, 497

Aramaic, 292, 399, 401, 411 archaeological research, 311, 614, 618, 625 archaeologists, 112, 588, 610-12, 617-18, 625, 627, 629, 633

archaeology, 16, 23, 109, 394, 592, 619, 643-4, 649

archbishops, 12, 428-9, 441 archery skills, 163, 168

architectural forms, 550, 620, 623 architectural styles, 601, 642 architecture, 72, 138, 182, 195, 311, 315, 321-2, 620, 625

civic, 618, 630

monumental, 588, 620

Arghun, Ilkhan, 443, 549

arid regions, 44, 47, 51, 403-4 aristocracy, 118, 120, 160, 164, 189-90, 258, 520-1, 531

Guanzhong, 515-16, 520 military, 370, 575

aristocratic clans, 220, 514-16, 521 aristocratic patronage, 183, 195

Aristotle, 45, 126, 129, 339, 345, 351, 356 arithmetic, 129, 132, 350

Armenia, 154, 267, 420, 427, 540, 543, 546, 560, 568

Armenians, 22, 424, 432, 546, 564, 569, 571, 575 armies, 102, 153-4, 156-7, 162-5, 371-2, 565, 567-70, 575-6

large, 149-50, 362, 578

Mongol, 530, 547

Roman, 154, 158

standing, 83, 514, 520, 523, 526, 531 thematic, 571-2

armor, 149, 152, 170, 173

Arras, 260, 262

arrows, 146, 156, 161, 173, 447, 602

arsenals, 270-1, 331

art, 15, 316, 320, 322, 326, 329, 335, 545, 624, 650 art forms, 32, 468, 474, 476-7

art styles, 34, 633

Arthasastra, 99, 287, 292

artisanal expertise, 318, 320

artisanal processes, 316, 335 artisans, 302, 320-4, 326, 329, 331, 457, 542-4,

607

Ascalon, 15

asceticism, 80, 200, 420, 422, 434

Ashikaga period, 121, 125

Asia, 317-18, 340, 415, 443-4, 447-8, 454, 460-2, 466-7, 476-7, 580

Central, see Central Asia.

East, see East Asia.

Inner, 365-7, 370, 375, 537 northeast, 542

South, see South Asia.

Southeast, see Southeast Asia. southern, 46, 58, 452-3, 672 southwest, 18, 665

West, 11, 166, 424, 436, 443, 492, 670 western, 340, 385, 442, 537

Asia Minor, 226, 277, 374, 416, 559, 564-6, 576, 578, 580-1

Askia Muhammad, 348, 603

Askias, 603-4, 607

Asoka, King, 304, 447, 450-2, 460 assemblies, 99, 102, 105, 127, 228 associations, 30, 85, 90, 95, 127, 223, 238, 257, 261, 264-5

merchant, 30, 261, 305-6

Asti, 259

astrolabe, 330, 350, 352

astrology, 125, 138, 194, 343, 345, 348, 355 astronomy, 129, 132, 343, 348-9, 352, 354-5, 410, 432, 543-4

Western, 349, 355

Atahuallpa, 639, 662

Athens, 343

Atisa, 467-9

Atlantic Ocean, 70, 257, 681

Augsburg, 261, 283-4, 368 Augustine, St., 57, 417, 419

Australia, 18, 310, 328, 427

authority, 70, 73-4, 97, 99, 342-3, 418-24, 504, 571-2, 606

central, 179, 370, 571, 669 centralized, 244, 538 ecclesiastical, 127, 347, 441 personal, 134, 141

political, 190, 296, 455, 471, 474, 532 religious, 138, 156, 504, 506 supreme, 515, 518

autocratic rule, 494, 499, 515

automata, 321, 330

autonomic states, 665-6

autonomy, 106, 220, 226, 252, 495, 559, 564,

681

Avars, 366, 437, 486, 513, 564

Averroes, 356

Avignon, 180, 266

Awdaghust, 596, 607

Axial Age, 206-7, 209, 212-13, 216, 218-19,

225-6, 665-7, 681

legacies, 207-12

religions, 208, 211

‘ Aydhab, 279, 299, 301

‘ Ayn Jalut, 162, 165

ayurveda, 85

Ayyavole, 305

Ayyubids, 238, 279

Azerbaijan, 377, 535, 554

Aztecs, 3, 25, 137, 140, 610, 613, 619-20, 626,

628-33

Aztlan migrations, 627

bab mandu, 14

baccalaureus, 129

Bactria, 345, 375, 514

Baghdad, 130, 133, 246, 248, 263, 276-7, 346-8,

565

‘Abbasid, 186, 346

court, 190, 263

Jews, 237

Mongol occupation, 227, 318

al-Bakri, 135, 586

balance of power, 491, 509, 531, 570

Bali, 47, 306

Balkans, 154-5, 171, 224, 267, 392, 564, 569-70,

576, 581

Balkh, 246, 345

Baltic Sea, 30, 160, 243, 261, 269, 276-7, 279

Bambuk, 596-7, 607

Banakati, Muhammad, 14 banking, 78, 90, 244-5, 249, 259-60, 263, 266,

271, 371, 581

banquets, 185, 193, 196, 198

Banu Hud, 352

Banyeres of Barcelona, 260

Bar-sur-Aube, 272 barbarians, 147, 151-2, 180, 220, 320, 559 barbers, 296

Barcelona, 260-1, 266, 269, 276-7, 281, 283

Bardi, 259, 266

Barlaam, 22

barter, 53, 111, 264, 551

Barygaza, 292, 304

basic education, 126, 132, 140

Basil II, 568, 570, 575-6, 578

Basin of Mexico, 611, 616-17, 621-2, 625, 631

Basmils, 367

Basra, 72, 266

Bateson, Gregory, 47

battering engines, 150

battles, 146,149,153-6,159,162,165-6,170-1,576 see also names of individual battles.

cavalry, 165

Bay of Bengal, 290, 451, 455

Beckwith, C., 346

Bedouins, 361, 372-3, 376, 378 bees, 44

Beijing, 4, 168, 180, 441, 467, 554, 677

Beirut, 270, 274, 276, 279 belief systems, 476, 606, 669 beliefs, 410, 417-18, 427-8, 434, 440-1, 464, 469-71

Belize, 614, 623

Ben Yiju, Abraham, 301-4

Benedict, St., 126 benefices, 128, 198

Bengal, 73, 215, 238, 290, 312, 552, 679

Bay of, 290, 451, 455

Bihar-Bengal region, 464, 467-8

West, 458

Benjamin of Tudela, 15, 680

Bentley, Jerry, 602, 683 Berber nomads, 394, 596

Berbers, 342, 372, 402, 595-6, 606

Sanhaja, 595-6

Berg-op-Zoom, 273

Bergen, 274, 277, 279 Bernard of Clairvaux, 44 Bertrand, Georges, 52

Betanzos, Juan de, 639, 645-7, 649, 656 Bhadresvara, 297

Bharuch, 288, 304

Bible, 14, 110, 347, 416-17, 593

Bida, 593-4

Bihar, 331, 450, 454, 464, 467-8, 678 biodiversity, 61, 67

Biraben, Jean-Noel, 18 Biran, Michal, 33, 534 birch-bark documents, 16 biremes, 268, 270 bishops, 12, 352, 417-19, 422, 429, 434, 436, 438, 441, 443

Bisson, Thomas, 211, 217-18

Bithynia, 267, 565, 580

Black Death, 18, 62, 67, 248-9, 253, 315, 676 Black Sea, 244, 246-8, 269-70, 274, 279-81, 283, 437, 580, 582

black stone, 289, 468 Bloch, Marc, 53-4, 81 boats, 149, 268-70, 296, 320 flat-bottomed, 277

sewn, 291-2

bodhisattvas, 22, 452, 465

bodyguards, imperial, 181, 184

Bohemia, 160, 282

Bologna, 128

Bonnassie, Pierre, 260

Bonsignori, 259

Book of the Eparch, 262 booty, 147, 152, 492, 538, 542, 552

Bordeaux, 260, 272, 277

wines, 281

borders, 25, 149, 491, 525-6, 559, 562, 565-6, 578-9

Borobudur, 465

Borromeos, 260

Boserup, Esther, 55

Bosphorus, 561, 581

Boucher, Guillaume, 20-1

Bourgneuf, salt, 277, 281 bows, 146, 158, 324, 602

composite, 154, 171 boys, 70, 87, 126, 132, 146, 184 brahmanas, 296, 304

Brahmanism, 464, 468

Brahmins, 73, 185, 199, 502

brass factories, 300, 302 bribery, 148 brides, 72-3, 77, 83, 85-6 brocade, 242, 597 ‘Brog-mi, 469 brokers, 78, 82, 263, 299, 527 bronze, 23, 174, 458, 626

coins, 522, 524

prestige items, 243 smelting, 625, 682 statues, 331, 524

brothers, 74, 90,147,189-90, 419, 516, 577, 593, 642

Bruges, 261-2, 266, 272-4, 277, 279 bubonic plague, see plague.

Buddha, 447-8, 450-1, 453, 455, 458, 471, 473, 475, 477

images, 14, 126, 455

Buddhism, 121-2, 124-6, 448, 450-62, 468-77,

549-50, 672

across Asia, 454-61

Chan, 466, 473-4

diffusion, 447, 451, 671, 683 doctrines, 447-50, 452, 455, 457-8, 461,

465-6, 471

East Asian Buddhist world, 469-74 and educational institutions, 122-6 India-Tibet Buddhist world, 468-9 Mahayana, 122, 125, 452, 672

persecution, 467, 469, 548

Pure Land, 470, 473

sangha, 124 schools, 469, 474-5 spread, 447-77

between 5th and 10th centuries, 454 early, 450-4

Sri Lanka-Southeast Asia Buddhist world, 474-6

Tantric, 465, 468

Theravada, 125, 475, 504

Tibetan, 469, 473, 546, 549-50 transmission, 447, 457, 460

Buddhist artifacts, 455, 471, 672

Buddhist communities, 447, 460, 471-2

Buddhist ideas, 447-8, 453, 462, 466, 470, 476-7, 672

Buddhist institutions, 451, 470, 474

Buddhist interactions, 448, 454, 460, 475, 672

Buddhist law, 549

Buddhist learning, 452, 454, 457

Buddhist literature, 450, 454

Buddhist monastic institutions, 104, 118, 121-3, 125-6, 140, 152, 466, 470-2

Buddhist monks, 447, 453-4, 457, 467, 469, 471, 474, 672

Buddhist monuments, 471, 515

Buddhist networks and exchanges, 448, 454, 462-7, 470, 473, 672

Buddhist paraphernalia, 457, 462, 471

Buddhist relics, 455, 475

Buddhist rituals, 472-3

Buddhist teachings, 32,124-5, 448, 452, 476, 677

Buddhist temples, 121, 124, 181, 306, 455, 460

Buddhist texts, 124, 453, 457, 461-2, 471-2

Buddhist universities, 122

Bulgars, 560-1, 566, 569-70, 574, 579

Bulghars, 243, 367, 389-91, 395 rulers, 389-90, 392

bureaucracy, 28, 100, 346, 419, 424, 539, 542 civil, 33, 182, 531

Iranian, 369, 374

sclerotic, 167

Weberian, 111

bureaucratic entrepreneurship, 527

Burgundio of Pisa, 347

Burma, 305, 452, 534

Burmese, 125, 503

butchers, 376, 574

Byzantium, 262, 270-1, 273-4, 400-1, 415-16, 419-21, 427-8, 559-84

11th century developments, 572-6 army, 154, 435, 570, 576

Church, 560, 583

continuing problems and final collapse, 579-83

court, 179, 181, 184-5, 679

emperors, 11, 100, 154-5, 179, 181, 190, 197, 562-3

see also names of individual emperors.

Komnenoi, 572, 575-80

merchants, 572, 574 reorganization and recovery

750-1000, 566-70

state formation and empire building, 508-9

tagmata, 164, 569

warfare, 153-5

Cacaxtla, 618

Caesarea, 155, 200, 274

Frankish, 17

Caffa, 248, 274, 276, 552

Cahorsins, 262

Cairo, 72, 78, 131, 133-4, 238, 272

Geniza, 271, 276, 292, 299-300 Cajamarca, lord of, 651-3 Calais, Wool Staple of, 262, 275, 277 calendars, 138, 183, 407, 613-14 Calicut, 254, 279 caliphate, 11, 160, 162, 237, 389-90, 406, 408, 504, 506-7, 571

caliphs, 11-13, 163-4, 186, 190, 200, 389-90, 405-6, 408

Cambay, 288, 297

Gulf of, 288, 294

Cambodia, 15, 331, 458

Cambrai, 262, 281

camel caravans, 236, 245, 277, 598, 674 camels, 242, 245, 296, 336, 363, 590, 595 camphor, 237, 444

canals, 47-8, 235, 621

irrigation, 641

Canari, 657

Canary Islands, 283, 395 cannibalism, 50 canon law, 77, 128

Capac, 645

capacocha, 661

capital, 264-5

capital cities, 180, 399-400, 411, 587, 616, 624 imperial, 416, 561, 623, 631, 638, 647 captives, 149, 170, 174

caravans, 552, 595, 600

camel, 236, 245, 277, 598, 674 caravanserais, 246, 248, 300

caravels, 329, 381

careers, 78,119,131,134,183,192,198, 575, 577, 581

cargo(es), 30, 233, 250, 282-3, 290, 551, 674 Carlowitz, Hanns Carl von, 62

Carolingian Renaissance, 126, 496

Carolingians, 45, 100, 166, 188, 200, 214, 283, 496-7, 566, 667

carpets, 242, 597 cartography, 1-10, 195, 543, 673, 680

Sino-centric, 2

cash, 157, 265, 300, 566, 568

caskets, 22

Caspian Sea, 241, 243 castes, 73, 99, 107, 185, 197, 252, 408, 525 Castile, 162, 259, 267, 282, 497 castles, 159, 162, 166, 168

Catalan Atlas, 8, 680

Catalans, 275, 279, 581

Catalonia, 12, 260, 271, 282

Catequil, 660, 662

Cathay, 13, 348 see also northern China cathedral schools, 126, 128-9, 131, 141, 350 Catherine of Siena, 79

Catholic Church, 158, 493 cattle, 109, 334, 518

Caucasus, 399, 421, 535, 567, 574-5

North, 368

cavalry, 149-50, 152, 154, 156, 158, 161, 170-2, 569, 593

heavy, 159, 161, 514, 517 light, 154, 161 mamluk, 165, 170

tribal, 153

cavalry battles, 165 caves, 290, 426, 650 celibacy, 87-8, 419 censuses, 540, 542

Central Asia, 241-2, 364-7, 369-70, 376-7, 424,

437, 451-2, 488-9, 553-4

central control, 164, 506, 530

Central Europe, 52, 63, 65, 244, 249, 254 central Germany, 281

central governments, 100, 515, 520-1, 524, 527-9, 531, 539, 541, 669, 673 central India, 215, 375, 455

central Java, 241, 465

central power, 98, 179, 370, 374, 502, 566, 571, 580, 669

centralization, 239, 541, 642, 666 centralized administration, 24, 332, 506, 578 centralized empires, 24, 381 centralized government, 244, 402, 531, 538 centralized states, 33, 120, 518, 553 ceque shrines, 648

ceramics, 296, 312, 320, 642, 660

styles, 641-2

ceremonies, 111, 185, 196-8, 465-6, 473, 594,

602

imperial, 185, 561

religious, 137, 185, 198, 457 Ceylon, 3, 393, 450 Chach, 242-3

Chachapoyas, 657 Chaghadaids, 535, 547-8

Chalcedon, Council of, 427, 560 Chaldeans, 343, 417 chamberlains, 184, 186-8

Champagne, fairs of, 259, 262, 266,

272-3, 277

Chan Buddhism, 466, 473-4 Chancas, 644, 650, 653 chancellors, 129

chanceries, 182, 186, 188, 515 Chang'an, 180-1, 345, 438, 514-16, 520, 524 chants, 197-8, 426, 464

Chapar b. Qaidu, 552

Chapata, 475 chapels, 181, 188 charisma, 189, 419-22, 440, 537

dynastic, 492, 507 charity, 72, 156 Charlemagne, 24, 65, 126, 157, 159-60, 180, 195, 198, 572

Charles Martel, 158-9, 368

Charles the Simple, 12 charter of Visnusena, 295-6 charters, 188, 295-6 cheeses, 272, 281, 578 chelandia, 270-1 Chiang Mai, 125

Chichen Itza, 620, 623-4

chiefdoms, 110, 240, 592, 595, 598, 606, 623, 641, 650

Mande, 597-9, 606 chiefs, 99, 110-11, 121, 184, 246, 287, 295, 593,

599-600

provincial, 138-40 Chieri, 259 child-raising, 70, 668 childhood, 189, 424 children, 83, 89, 113, 116, 137-8, 146, 164, 181, 187, 599

Chile, 638, 641, 650, 658

Chimor, 653

Chin, 370, 380, 675

China, 4-7, 24-7, 74-6, 166-7, 233-7, 452-7,

469-74, 516-20, 543-5

Confucianism and educational institutions, 118-19

court, 181, 183, 201, 306, 443, 453, 455 eastern, 393, 410

economy, 235, 237, 470, 532

emperors, 189, 196, 455, 514

see also names of individual emperors.

Five Dynasties Interregnum, 523-4

Grand Canal, 167, 331, 516, 524

Great Wall, 514, 525

Han, see Han.

institutions, 121, 498, 503

internal challenges and decline of Tang power, 519-21

Liang, 460

localist turn under Southern Song, 528-30 long-term trends in state-society relations, 530-2

Ming, see Ming.

Mongols, 2, 11, 166-8, 378, 393, 440, 548 new policies of Wang Anshi, 527-8 North, 166-8, 370-1, 437-8, 455, 488-9, 491, 522-3

post-An Lushan transformation of government and society, 521-2 post-Han, 448

prosperity and crisis under Song, 524-6 reunification, 33, 533

Song, see Song.

South, 217, 220, 246-7, 393, 514, 522-3, 539,

551

state formation

Sui through Song, 513-32

Sui, see Sui.

Sui-Tang, see Sui-Tang.

Tang, see Tang.

warfare, 152-3

Yuan, see Yuan.

Chincha, 25, 653, 659

Chinchaysuyo, 638, 650-1

Chinese culture, 121, 214, 320, 401

Chinese diasporic communities, 27, 476

Chinese maps, 2-4

Chinese models, 33, 180-1, 184, 499, 501, 516, 518

Chinese monks, 454, 462-4, 472

Chinese scholars, 319, 344, 346, 677

Chinese ships, 251, 293

Chinese silk, 239, 378

Chinggis Khan, 24, 246, 440-1, 491-2, 534, 537-9, 546, 550

Chinggisids, 534-5, 541-3, 545, 547-51,

553-4

Chioniades, Gregory, 349, 352

Chios, 259, 274, 279, 281

Chola kingdom, 168, 236, 299, 300, 494

Chonai, 273

Choson, 119, 307

Christ, see Jesus,

Christendom, 7, 27, 32, 155, 211

Christian life in Sassanid and Muslim polities, 427-36

Christian life outside Abrahamic sphere, 437-41

Eastern, 225, 442

life in Christian polities, 420-7 regional systems, 415-45

Western, 26, 214-15, 219, 223-4, 494-8, 501-2, 507, 510

Christian communities, 416, 421, 429, 432, 434, 437, 444, 681

Christian ethics, 420

Christian faith, 130, 260, 422

Christian institutions, 32, 141, 416-20, 442

Christian life, 32, 415-19, 422, 426, 433, 437-8,

440, 443

outside Abrahamic sphere, 437-41 in Sassanid and Muslim polities, 427-36 Christian monasteries, 77, 126, 140 Christian polities, 100, 416, 419-20, 422, 426-7, 437, 440, 442

life in, 420-7

Christian regions, 32, 416, 422, 424, 429, 442, 444-5

Christian rulers, 32, 130, 135, 347, 416, 421, 495

Christian worship, 428, 432

Christianity, 56, 103-4, 156, 427, 430-1, 438, 441-2, 560, 675, 683 and European universities, 126-9 Mesopotamia, 418

Nestorian, 194, 208, 225, 227, 426-8, 437-8,

441, 444

Orthodox, 427, 534, 544

Protestant, 124

Christians, 87, 345-6, 415, 424-38, 440, 442,

444

Eastern, 434, 436

European, 415, 418, 442

chrysobulls, 274, 578

church courts, 418, 421

Church of Holy Wisdom, see Hagia Sophia.

Cieza de Leon, Pedro, 639-40, 643, 645, 651, 661

circular maps, 5, 8 cities, 260-1, 343, 561, 564-5, 581, 614-16, 618-20, 622-3, 630-2, 648-9 major, 261, 407, 515, 614, 628 citizens, 140, 197, 261, 270, 601 city-states, 34, 101, 104, 107, 495, 554, 621-2, 625, 628-30

conquest-era, 630 Italian, 322, 552, 674

Mayan, 137

civil bureaucracy, 33, 182, 531

civil service, 84,101,119,122,126,138,183, 354, 515, 570

examinations, 117-21, 124, 140-2, 183, 515, 525, 527, 529

civil society, 630, 666

civil wars, 152-3, 155, 157, 159-60, 163-4, 581, 583, 662

civilian elites, 101, 151, 319 class conflict, 108-9

classes, 104, 109, 113, 129, 194, 224, 235, 542, 669, 679

commercial, 236, 252, 581 military, 149, 158, 199 upper, 108, 437, 450 warrior, 221

Classic Maya, 611, 613-14, 618, 624, 633, 682 clay models, 649-50 clergy/clerics, 32, 124, 128, 200, 418, 420-1, 440, 515-16, 519

clerical elites, 217, 220, 224, 226, 681 climate, 15, 57-8, 241, 249, 373, 564, 594, 649, 661

change, 57-8, 61

Medieval Climate Optimum, 58, 61, 334, 336

climatological approach, 55, 57 cloth, 75, 242, 261, 277, 282, 296, 304, 514, 656-7

precious, 258-9 woolen, 259, 262, 266, 272-3, 282-3 cloth of gold, 75 Clovis, 12 coal, 335 coastal navigation, 268, 270, 277 coercive power, 63, 211, 217, 229, 361, 631 Coeur, Jacques, 261 coins, 90, 95, 238, 244, 396, 405-7, 523-4 bronze, 522, 524 gold, 267, 553, 561, 590 iron, 524 silver, 243, 290, 296 coir, 250, 291, 675 coitus, 85-6, 89

Collasuyo, 638, 646, 648, 650, 658 collective identities, 224 collective worship, 32, 424 Cologne, 261 colonialism, 318, 328 colonies, 274, 654, 657

trade, 242, 415, 437 colonists, 654, 657-8 colonization, 54, 83, 313, 477 Columbus, Christopher, 174, 632, 634 command, 128, 211, 250, 567 commanders, 75, 165, 187, 538, 547, 575, 577, 593, 600

commentaries, 45, 131, 349, 356, 529 commerce, 233, 238-9, 245-7, 251-2, 259-60,

287-8, 290-2, 443, 595-6, 673-4

activities, 258-60, 262, 267, 675 Afro-Eurasian, 233-54 colonies, 242, 415, 437 expansion of, 244, 471, 551, 632-3, 682 foreign, 235, 251, 275, 526-7 gold, 250, 590 goods, 632, 682 diversity, 634, 682

international, 34, 262, 264, 271, 276-7, 535, 550

long distance, 30, 159, 233, 239, 242-3, 245-6, 249-50, 252-3

maritime, 270, 287-8, 290, 295, 548 networks, 276-9 objects, 279-84

overland, 247, 378, 381, 673-4

private, 235-6

retail, 272

routes, see routes.

salt, 266, 590, 603

slaves, 170, 258, 283, 303, 552 state and papal intervention, 274-6 trans-Saharan, 34, 109, 586, 589, 595, 598, 600, 602, 607

transit, 236, 239, 244, 390

tribute, 235, 250 commercial centers, 237, 245, 259, 266, 596, 601-2

commercial classes, 236, 252, 581 commercial diasporas, 27, 396 commercial economy, 77, 141, 239, 243, 246, 249, 252, 257-8, 632

commercial exchanges, 470-1, 476, 616, 620, 633

commercial growth, 225, 228, 239, 520 commercial markets, 264-5, 267 commercial networks, 34, 257, 471, 596

Mesoamerica, 632-3

commercial revolution, 90, 244, 471 commercial taxes, 522, 525, 540 commercial techniques, 30, 264 commercialization, 634, 682

commodities, 233, 238, 241, 243-4, 250-1, 287,

290-1, 296-7

luxury, 251, 281, 287, 550-1, 597, 602, 670,

673, 679-80

commoners, 83, 90, 119, 137, 362, 374, 404,

456-7, 531, 621-2

commons, tragedy of the, 63 communities, 105-6, 113, 122, 124, 290-1, 297,

416, 424-6, 504, 654

agricultural, 105

Buddhist, 447, 460, 471-2

Christian, 416, 421, 429, 432, 434, 437, 444,

681

Jewish, 78, 130, 237, 301, 304, 417, 428, 430 local, 102, 105, 215, 297, 505, 669 maritime, 30, 287 merchant, 438, 450, 476

monastic, 122, 450, 452, 455, 475, 504 sailing, 30, 291

seafaring, 30, 291, 306 settled, 428, 590 trading, 287, 290, 295-6, 451 village, 531, 587, 654

compasses, 313, 317 magnetic, 250, 675

Compendium of Chronicles, 12, 14, 543,

549, 680

competition, 29, 189-91, 194, 201, 262, 283,

523, 594

complexity, 98, 196, 201, 238, 312, 587, 596,

666

economic, 28, 109

of government, 97, 669 composite bows, 154, 171 concubines, 74, 81-2, 87-8, 107, 183, 191, 245,

304

confiscations, 252, 575

Confucian ethics, 76, 87, 531

Confucian schools, 121-2, 140

Confucian statecraft, 516, 530

Confucianism, 28, 75, 140, 142, 156, 191, 225,

339, 521, 677

and educational institutions, 117-21

Japan, 120-1

Korea, 119-20

Neo-Confucianism, 120-1, 214, 220, 486,

500, 522, 530-2

texts, 118-20, 122, 124, 140, 183, 354

Vietnam, 121

conquered countries, 32, 365, 371-2, 377, 379, 381, 671

conquerors, 146, 151, 156, 227, 370, 380, 403, 411-12, 489, 491

Spanish, 16, 487, 612 conquest dynasties, 153, 158, 163-4, 488, 500-1, 504

conquest-era city-states, 630 conquests, 359-60, 363-5, 371, 375-7, 380-1, 491, 538-9, 650, 673, 682

Inca, 650-5, 682

Islamic, 71, 89, 101, 122, 158, 671, 673, 676, 678, 681

Mongol, 9, 24, 30, 96, 227, 391, 393, 673, 677, 683

nomadic, 31, 52, 376, 379, 381, 673 see also pastoral nomadism, migrations and conquests.

Ottoman, 262, 283, 392, 396

Seljuk, 373, 377

Spanish, 613-14, 618, 620, 622, 625-6, 632-3 consolidation, 147, 215, 296, 531, 671, 675

internal, 160, 172

political, 513, 674

religious, 295

territorial, 644

Constantine the Great, 561-2

Constantine V, 157, 565, 569

Constantinople, 155, 258, 276-9, 347, 560-8, 572-5, 579-80, 582-3 see also Byzantium.

Great Palace, 560-1, 574

merchants of, 262, 578 consumers, 30, 196, 233, 525, 550, 674 contact zones, 310, 328-9 continuity, 180, 214, 221, 440, 490, 492, 495, 508, 513, 665

and change, 313-18

contracts, 15, 71, 77, 82, 90, 259, 265, 676 oral, 198

written, 82 control, 34, 117-18, 152, 164-5, 169, 188, 503, 595, 602-3, 606-7

central, 164, 506, 530

direct, 138, 486, 641

effective, 100, 502

conversion, 71, 73-4, 390-2, 416, 430, 437, 507, 547-8, 671, 676

forced, 104, 448

royal, 547-9

convoys, 264, 268-9, 302

copper, 23, 34, 282, 295, 302, 524, 590, 595, 644, 648

Coptic, 343, 401, 424, 432, 435-6

Coptic martyrs, 431

Copts, 427, 432 Cordova, 12, 346, 349, 680 Coricancha, 646-8, 653 Cornwall, 277, 282

Coron, 274, 279

corruption, 471, 528 Cortes, Hernan, 610, 623, 628, 632, 634 cosmology, 137, 206, 209, 213, 223 Cossacks, 426

cotton, 238-9, 253, 282, 284, 295, 305, 317, 632,

679

Council of Chalcedon, 427, 560 Council of Florence-Ferrara, 583 councils, 102, 112

ecclesiastical, 421, 428 royal, 99, 102, 112 ruling, 98, 102, 107 court astrologers, 185, 198 court ceremonial, 196-9 court culture, see courtly cultures. court life, 29, 190, 196, 201 court poets, 193-4 court rituals, 197, 395, 421 court traditions, 35, 179-80 courtiers, 181-2, 184, 186, 189, 191-3, 195, 197,

330 male, 184, 189 courtliness, 189, 191-2, 196 courtly cultures, 120, 179-201, 324 competition and courtliness, 189-92 court and critics, 199-201 court ceremonial, 196-9 cultural production in courts, 192-6 membership and function, 182-9 power and place, 179-82 courtly love, 196 courts see also courtly cultures.

‘Abbasid, 180, 195, 199

Byzantine, 179, 181, 184-5, 679 church, 418, 421 and critics, 199-201

India, 179, 181, 197 Islamic, 179, 194, 201, 679 Japan, 180, 183, 193, 519 papal, 179-80, 679 royal, 182, 186, 188, 191, 195-6, 200, 551, 602

Western, 188, 190, 195, 200

cowrie shells, 245, 597

crafts, 77, 98, 109, 116, 316, 321-2, 324, 335, 360,

670 craftsmanship, 8, 147, 542 craftsmen/people, 95, 107, 252, 290, 305, 320,

456, 572, 581, 583 creation myths, 35, 643-4 credit, 249, 266, 273, 527, 537 Cresques Abraham, 8 Crete, 83, 274, 279, 281 crime, 86-7, 105-6 Crimea, 243, 274, 366, 391, 543 critical reflexivity, 206 crop failures, 55, 249, 621 crops, 26, 111, 216, 336, 654, 656 cross-cultural exchanges, 32, 462, 672 Mongol empire, 541-5 cross-cultural interactions, 297, 378, 672-3 cross-gender behavior, 87 cross-regional interactions, 462, 469 crossbows, 152, 160, 172-4, 315 Crusader States, 162, 347, 578 crusaders, 17, 329, 426, 578 crusades, 12, 78, 274, 329, 424, 436, 442, 444

First, 7, 12, 17, 130, 161 Fourth, 24, 274, 579 crystallizations, cultural, 29, 206, 209, 212,

216, 229 cuicacaUi, 137-8 cultivation, 44, 48, 75-7, 117, 192, 259, 281, 360,

410

cults, 418, 472, 642, 644, 646-8, 656-7, 660-1,

682

relic, 450, 475 cultural crystallizations, 29, 206, 209, 212, 216,

229

and trans-regional reorientations, 208-12 cultural dominance, 206, 320 cultural ecumenes, 29, 212-13, 216, 225, 227 cultural exchanges, 312, 347, 378, 677 cultural frameworks, 310, 490, 493 cultural heritage, 138, 212, 346 cultural legacies, 24, 29, 225, 499, 537, 681 cultural practices, 211, 215-16, 321 cultural production, 192, 194-5, 201, 436 cultural supremacy, 33, 333 cultures, 29, 31, 44, 60-1, 195-6, 219, 309-10,

316, 335, 543 elite, 317, 402, 411, 614 irrigation, 50, 67 material, 329-30, 545, 624 political, 380, 507, 550 religious, 33, 483, 496, 503 sedentary, 50-1

currency, 111, 245, 266-7, 522, 524, 527, 597, 656

exchange, 244, 266, 273, 552

gold, see gold, coins.

metal, 30, 264 curricula, educational, 132, 141, 322, 350, 527 custom duties, 259, 275 customary law, 295, 380, 407

unwritten, 104, 669 customary practices, 116, 295-6 customs, 89, 102, 130, 192, 211, 303, 514, 587, 606, 638

religious, 103, 669

Cuzco, 25, 138, 638-49, 651-3, 655-6, 658, 661-2

Lower, 642, 648-9

Upper, 642, 647

Valley, 641, 643, 647

Cyprus, 270, 273, 279, 281, 396, 564

da Gama, Vasco, 254, 415

Dahbattan, 302

Dai Viet, 121

Dakajalan, 598

Dalmatia, 569, 572

Damascus, 4, 133-4,155, 180, 411, 432, 564, 599 dance, 81, 138, 661

Dao Learning, 529, 531

Daoism, 121, 156, 225, 546, 665 Datini, Francesco di Marco, 260, 265, 267 Datong, 456, 460

daughters, 74-5, 90,128,131,138,185, 224,304, 430, 578

de la Vega, Garcilaso, 639, 655

Deccan, 451

decimal units, 537-8, 542, 655 defenders, 150, 380, 530 defense, 151, 162, 167, 172, 261, 274, 519, 578, 580, 583

deforestation, 59-60, 335, 614 deities, 197-8, 546, 638, 643, 660

local, 661-3

Delhi, 248, 297, 375

sultanate, 82, 164, 169, 215, 238, 548 Demetrius, St., 273, 574 democracy, 106-7, 113, 210 demographic decline, 562, 572, 618 demographic growth, 159, 216, 572, 578, 583, 622, 641 deserts, 47, 51, 57, 241, 360-1, 363, 590, 594-5 despotic power, 101, 628-30 Despotism, Oriental, 96, 99, 105 deviance, 86-8

dharma, 85, 549

Dharmapala, Pala ruler, 468

dhimmi, 275, 429, 432, 681

Dhu'n-Nun, 44

Diabe Cisse, 593

Diafunu, 606

dialectical reasoning, 129, 350

Diamond, Jared, 55, 61, 614

diasporas, commercial, 27, 396 diet, 371, 545 dikes, 47, 65, 325, 329

Dinga, 593

Diogenes, Romanos, 576

Dioscorides, 349-51 diplomacy, 35, 419, 443, 650, 682 diplomatic missions, 467, 553 diplomatic relations, 389, 466, 502, 517, 672 direct taxes, 522, 531 disciples, 124, 321, 417, 450 discovery, voyages of, 313, 317, 341 disease, 59, 248, 315, 471, 663, 674

infectious, 66, 662

ditches, 150, 618, 624 divergences, 224, 233, 311, 336, 497, 501, 672 diversification, 266, 314, 316-17, 326 diversity, 34, 43, 53, 73, 76, 267, 410, 415-16,

441-2, 444

of trade goods, 634, 682 divination, 197, 322, 438, 543, 673 diviners, 598 division of labor, 148, 159 divorce, 71-2, 76, 78, 434 doctors, 12, 78, 128, 194, 345, 352, 354-5 domestic skills, 116, 140 domestic slavery, 28, 80, 83 dominance, 56, 85, 152, 262, 502, 518, 529, 582,

597

cultural, 206, 320 political, 34, 377, 387, 607 domination, 95, 214, 228, 604

political, 363, 623 world, 494, 510

Dominican order, 129, 442

donations, 289, 295, 451-2, 472, 475, 477 donkeys, 245 donors, 73, 91, 123

Dore, Elizabeth, 50

Dorestad, 258, 276

dower, 71, 676

dowries, 73-4, 77-8, 90 drainage, 47-8, 111 dreams, 354, 453, 648 dried fish, 595-6 dromedaries, 245, 363, 373

dromons, 270-1

droughts, 43, 46, 58, 589, 614, 621, 627, 661 drums, 194, 593

Du Huan, 15

duchies, 102, 274, 567, 569 dukes, 160, 569, 577-8 Dunhuang, 438, 457, 467 durability, 26, 33 Dust Bowl, 45, 54 duties, 13, 85, 100, 113, 181, 185, 191, 296, 305,

678

parish, 444

religious, 132, 156 dykes, see dikes dynastic change, 189, 485, 498, 604 dynastic charisma, 492, 507 dynastic instability, 366, 600 Dyrrachion (Durrazzo), 273, 564, 569, 581

Early Middle Ages, 53, 258-9, 276, 281, 283 Early Postclassic period, 619, 631 East Africa, 71-2, 108-9, 169, 251, 291, 294,

393-4, 396

East Asia, 122-3, 447, 463-5, 470-2, 485,

498-501, 503, 519, 531

Buddhism and educational institutions,

124-5

genesis, 519-33

East Europe, 365, 367-9, 372

East Siberia, 377, 673

Eastern Christendom, 225, 442

eastern Europe, 166, 215, 224, 243, 548 eastern hemisphere, 1-2, 5, 20, 24-6, 83, 341 eastern Mediterranean, 21, 24, 30, 58,133, 160,

257, 273, 349, 385

ecclesiastical authorities, 127, 347, 441 ecclesiastical laws, 90, 420 ecological instability, 48 ecology, 15, 47, 52, 57, 60 economy, 90-1, 244-6, 249, 525, 527, 589, 682

Chinese, 235, 237, 470, 532

commercial, 77, 141, 239, 243, 246, 249, 252, 257-8, 632

development, 222, 245, 252, 501, 635 economic activities, 213, 222, 296, 303, 360, 476-7

economic foundations of societies in Eurasia, 96-8

economic phenomena, 612, 614, 619

growth, 30, 90, 121, 159, 218, 284, 523, 530,

610

market, 530-1

pastoral nomadic, 359-60

political, 287, 589

private, 528, 531

resources, 148, 151, 386, 522, 544 sustainable agricultural, 48-9 transformations, 220, 223

ecumenes, 26, 29, 214, 219, 229

cultural, 29, 212-13, 216, 225, 227 religious, 24, 26, 207

Edessa, 155, 428, 575

education, 116-19, 121-6, 130-41, 668, 676 basic, 126, 132, 140

educational institutions, 28, 35, 116-42, 677-8

Americas, 137-40

and Buddhism, 122-6

China, 118-19

and Christianity, 126-9

and Confucianism, 117-21

development, 126, 678

formal, 117, 132, 140-2

and Islam, 131-5

Africa, 135-7

Japan, 120-1

and Judaism, 130-1

Korea, 119-20

primary, 116, 668

Vietnam, 121

educational resources, 122, 124, 126

Egyptian traders, 601-2

Egyptians, 258, 343

Eisenstadt, Shmuel N., 206, 226, 665-7, 681,

683

elderly parents, 90, 677

elite culture, 317, 402, 411, 614

elite families, 224, 655

elites

civilian, 101, 151, 319

clerical, 217, 220, 224, 226, 681

educated, 124, 220

landed, 224, 379

literati, 119, 220

local, 34, 106, 499, 505, 559, 562, 567, 673,

679

military, 151, 221, 331, 379, 506

political, 151, 221, 226,303, 361, 379,389, 521, 666, 681

regional, 164, 641

religious, 207, 217, 221

ruling, 378, 520, 545

traditional, 221, 226

urban, 133, 160, 222, 226, 604

Ellenblum, Ronnie, 58

Elvin, Mark, 49 emancipation, 107, 304 embassies, 236, 389, 455, 518, 553, 601-2 emirates, 571, 580 emirs, 567, 571 empire, system of, 665-7

empire building, 33, 35, 156, 171, 488, 671-2, 674-6

Mongols, 537, 541

and state formation, 483-510 employment, 185, 235, 311, 314 empresses, 183, 198, 576 endowments, 118, 122, 128-9, 133, 297-8 enemies, external, 80, 157

energy, 43, 157, 316, 334-5, 464, 648

kinetic, 161, 173, 314 engineers, 154, 167, 170, 354, 539 engines, 30, 233, 244, 252, 528

battering, 150

stone-throwing, 150

English merchants, 275, 277 English peasants, 108, 333 enlightenment, 79, 125, 450, 466 enslavement, 82-3, 149, 171 entertainers, 31, 306 entertainment, 181, 197, 542-3, 679 entrepreneurs, 195, 250, 333, 527, 552 environment, 27, 94, 309, 316, 323, 334-6, 400,

410, 434

and humans, 43-68

natural, 361, 648

physical, 309, 334 environmental change, 335, 489 environmental damage, 28, 62 environmental historians, 46, 59, 62, 334 environmental history, 45, 51, 54, 56, 59, 61, 64-5, 67

environmentalism, 47, 57 envoys, 27, 453, 455, 461, 475 epic narratives, 587

Epiclassic period, 618, 626, 628, 630-1 epidemics, 66-7, 565-6, 583

Epirus, 569, 579-80

Equal Field system, 514, 522, 530-1 espionage, 262, 520

estates, 74, 158-9, 163, 223, 552, 575

small, 167, 568

Esterlins, 261

ethics, 130, 191, 220, 350

Christian, 420

Confucian, 76, 87, 531

Ethiopia, 24, 109-10, 135, 415-16, 437, 440, 442, 444, 487

ethnic groups, 102, 613, 625, 627, 642 ethnic identities, 292-3, 495, 497, 535, 655

Euclid, 126

eunuchs, 84, 183, 185, 187, 189, 197, 245

Eurasia, 29, 96-7, 111, 219-20, 340-2, 535-8, 541-5, 673, 679

class conflict, 108-9

Eastern, 490, 516

economic foundations of societies, 96-8 hierarchy and government, 98-101

Inner, 484, 486-92, 499, 501, 507, 510, 514 law, 104-6

local society, 106-7

religions, 103-4

solidarities within polities, 101-3

western, 179, 494

Eurasian steppes, 31, 145, 360, 362-3, 365-7, 371-4, 380, 389

Europe, 5-9, 95-6, 106-8, 223, 228, 252-4, 340, 422-4, 443-4, 674-5

Central, 52, 63, 65, 244, 249, 254

East, 365, 367-9, 372

Medieval, 45, 58, 76-7, 94, 96, 99, 109, 125-6, 314-15

military revolutions, 171-4 northern, 17, 53, 95, 128, 215, 257, 261, 279,

284, 310

southeastern, 387, 392, 484 southern, 211, 329

western, 26, 160-1, 179-80, 182, 214-15, 220,

222, 226

European Christians, 415, 418, 442

European scholars, 126, 142, 320, 322, 436

European trade networks, 257-84

European universities, 117, 126-9, 135, 141,

223, 350

Euthymius the Georgian, 22 examinations, civil service, 117-21, 124, 140-2,

183, 515, 525, 527, 529

exchanges

commercial, 470-1, 476, 616, 620, 633 cross-cultural, 32, 462, 541, 544-5, 672 cultural, 312, 347, 378, 677 diplomatic, 349, 462, 680 technological, 328-9

exile, 199, 264, 420, 506, 521, 598-9, 638 expertise, 136, 166, 320, 324, 328, 419 administrative, 518, 521 technical, 318, 323, 329, 333

experts, 31, 185, 329, 337, 539, 542, 546, 548-9 exports, 242, 253, 262, 264, 275, 282,

524, 574

expulsions, 78, 104, 121

extortion, 252, 275

fairs, 257, 259, 271, 471

of Champagne, 259, 262, 266, 272-3, 277 faith, see religions.

Fakhr al-Din, 553

families, 28, 81-3, 85, 87-9, 116, 197-9, 424-6 Central and East Asia, 73-6

elite, 224, 655

Europe, 76-9 imperial, 181, 183-4, 193, 197, 473, 567

Islamic world and South Asia, 71-3 family life, 16, 80, 434, 676-7, 683 structured, 71, 676

family members, 81, 134, 492, 567, 575, 577, 581

famines, 98, 154, 252, 305, 435, 621

Farakoro, 598-9

farmers, 48, 163, 314, 527, 542, 607 farming, 52, 55, 97, 322, 361, 600, 631

see also agriculture.

families, 514, 522, 525 pasture, 48, 51 terrace, 47, 49-50 wet rice, 49-50, 518

fathers, 72, 90, 131, 138, 189, 191, 298, 303, 570, 576

paternal rights, 82-3, 89

Fatimids, 238, 264, 271, 576

Faulkner, Edward H., 54 female slaves, 81-3, 304-5, 602

Fertile Crescent, 32, 279, 404, 411-12 fertility, 48 fertilizers, 48-9, 53 festivals, 103, 196, 656 feudalism, 95, 105, 210

Indian, 238

Fez, 26, 134

financial incentives, 329-30

fines, 86, 407

fiscal policy, 527, 552 fish, 259, 270, 273, 277, 281

dried, 595-6

fishermen, 607 fishing, 30, 291

Five Dynasties period, 523-4

Flanders, 259, 261-2, 269-70, 272-3, 281 Flannery, Timothy F., 55 flat-bottomed boats, 277

fleets, 167, 169, 240, 250, 264, 578, 603

Hanseatic, 268

Italian, 160, 268-9

Mongol, 167

Flemish, 261, 273, 275, 279

Florence, 260-1, 266, 269

Florentines, 259, 275 flutes, 193

food, 49, 72, 74, 111-12, 316, 320, 332, 335, 538,

543

food, production, 34, 241, 336 food supplies, 54, 162, 281, 614 footmen, 149, 161 forced conversion, 104, 448 foreign merchants, 237, 262, 272, 275, 303, 306 foreign trade, 235, 251, 275, 526-7 foreigners, 113, 150, 275, 301, 352, 471, 542,

574-5, 579

forestry, sustainable, 62-3 forests, 52-5, 57, 60-3, 65-6, 97, 595-6, 598 fortifications, 17, 150, 154, 166-7, 182 fortresses, 110, 153, 569, 647

trace italienne, 174

Fourth Lateran Council, 81-2 fragmentation, 128, 252, 496, 499, 671, 676,

678

political, 11, 101, 238, 495, 513, 524, 537, 670,

682

France, 90, 96, 165, 260-1, 273, 275, 277, 419,

424, 497

northern, 130

southern, 77, 157, 262, 442

Franciscans, 129, 421 Frankfurt, 273

Franks, 12-14, 17, 22, 27, 84, 102, 153, 158-60,

366, 368

see also Carolingians.

warfare, 158-62 freed slaves, 304, 597 freedom, 191, 304, 440, 521, 546, 550, 564 Frescobaldi family, 259

Friday prayers, 389-90, 405, 407-8 Frisian merchants, 258, 272, 276

Frisians, 243, 261, 279

fubing militias, 152-3, 168, 514, 516, 520-1, 530 Funan, 455, 458

funduq, 272

furs, 237, 243, 263, 273, 277, 282, 320, 390, 551 Fustat (Old Cairo), 263, 293, 301, 353, 431 fustians, 282-3

Galata, 574, 582 Galen, 85, 126, 355, 410 galley ships, 268-70, 282 galleys, 25, 268 gantowisas, 80

Gao, 34, 136, 348, 586, 596, 600, 602-5, 607 Gaon, 130, 141

Gaozong, Chinese emperor, 520

gardens, 7, 52, 105, 181-2, 198

Gaul, 22, 158, 416, 484 gender, 15, 28, 70-1, 79, 85, 89, 140, 588, 598

assumptions, 70, 76, 89

difference, 71, 677

expectations, 70, 89

and slavery, 80-4

systems, 28, 71, 677

third, 87

gendered space, 187 genealogies, 107,109-10,194,342, 412, 538, 633 generals, 169, 520, 525, 576

slave-eunuch, 164

generosity, 72, 110, 192, 568, 657 Geniza, 263, 267, 299-300, 302-3

Genoa, 160, 248, 259-60, 269, 274, 276, 279-83, 574

Genoese, 274, 282-3, 574, 582 genres, 10, 58, 131, 200, 353, 409, 454 gentry, 96, 500 geographers, 5, 7, 544, 592 geographical knowledge, 32, 476 geography, 5, 112, 145, 245, 292, 401, 543, 673 geometry, 129, 350

Georgia, 267, 427, 540, 567 Georgian, 22, 432, 434-5 Germans, 158, 276, 279

Germany, 102, 130

central, 281

northern, 54

southern, 277, 282-3

Ghana, 135-6, 395, 487, 586, 590-1, 594-5, 597-8, 600, 603

Ghazan, Ilkhan, 74, 547, 553 Ghaznavids, 373, 392, 402 Gibraltar, 259, 402 gifts, 164, 198, 200, 287, 290, 450, 550, 652-3, 656

exchange of, 186, 643

marriage, 71, 90, 676-7

Giovanni de' Marignolli, 11 girls, 70-2, 138, 287, 676 Glacken, Clarence J., 56 glass, 238, 283, 320, 590, 597 glassware, 243, 597, 679 globalization, 30, 35, 284, 535, 666-8, 681, 684

proto-globalization, 35, 665, 667-8, 670, 681, 683-4

globalized world, 35, 555, 667, 683 glocalization, 35, 665, 668, 680

God, 44, 192, 405, 407, 409-10, 416-17, 427-8,

434-5

grace of, 207, 420 goddesses, 80, 354 godhead, 438, 464 gods, 99, 103, 197, 207, 502, 613 gold, 195, 239, 245, 267, 593-8, 600-2, 646, 653 gold, coins, 267, 553, 561, 590

gold trade, 250, 590 golden ages, 193, 239, 600

Golden Horde, 74, 365, 369, 371, 391, 426, 545, 547, 552-3

Golden Horn, 272, 574, 582 goldfields, 596, 598, 607 Goryeo, see Koryo

Goths, 153, 437

Gottfried, Robert S., 62

government, 101-2, 107-10, 112, 118, 211, 217, 252, 668-9

central, 100, 515, 520-1, 524, 527-9, 531, 539, 541, 669, 673

centralized, 244, 402, 531, 538 complexity of, 97, 669

Eurasia, 98-101

layers of, 97, 669

officials, see civil service.

units of, 94-5, 101

governors, 187, 405, 570-1, 577, 581, 593-4 grace of God, 207, 420

grain, 147, 163, 197, 238, 242, 259-60, 275, 281,

295

tithe, 262, 281

trade, 258, 260, 281

grammar, 122, 129, 132, 194

Granada, 134, 162, 279

Grand Canal, 167, 331, 516, 524 grandsons, 7, 346, 579, 639 Great Palace, 560-1, 574

Great Silk Road, 366, 378

great snake, 593-4

Great Wall, 514, 525

Great Zimbabwe, 60, 109

Greece, 207, 218, 409, 665

Greeks, 22, 271, 273, 342-3, 345-7, 349, 427,

434-5, 579-80

Gregorian reforms, 579

griots, 135, 678

Grove, A. T., 63

growth, 53, 55, 68, 106-7, 216, 223-4, 471-2 agricultural, 216, 626

commercial, 225, 228, 239, 520 economic, see economy, growth. population, see population growth. unsustainable, 49 urban, 281, 450, 499, 522

Guaman Poma de Ayala, 639, 657, 661

Guangzhou, 235, 237, 526

Guanzhong aristocracy, 515-16, 520

Guascar, 662

Guatemala, 614, 623-4

Guayna Capac, 639, 650-1, 658-62 guilds, 95, 262, 287, 323, 334

merchant, 216, 306, 451

Guillaume of Villehardouin, 580

Gujarat, 104, 238, 290, 294, 296-7, 299,301,303 coast, 288, 294, 297, 548

Gulf of Cambay, 288, 294

Gulf of Mexico, 623, 625, 634 gunpowder, 171, 313, 545

weapons, 29, 166, 171, 173-4, 381, 554 guns, see gunpowder, weapons. Guptas, 49, 238-9, 484, 502

hadith, 86, 132, 134, 194, 430

Hagia Sophia, 181, 185, 197, 444 hagiography, 420, 568

Haithabu, 258, 276

Hamburg, 261, 267

Hamdan al-Atharibι, 12

Han, 179-80, 448, 452-3, 455, 498, 515,

517, 521, 679

Han, Southern, 524

Han Suyin, 60

handguns, 171-3

Hangzhou, 235, 331, 528, 530, 554

Hanse, 261, 268, 274, 277, 279, 284

Hardin, Garrett, 63-4

harems, 79, 81, 84, 86

Harold Godwinson, 161

Harris, Marvin, 50, 55

Harun al-Rashid, 11, 346 harvest, 197, 271, 540

Harz mountains, 267, 282

Hasan b. Bundar, 301, 303 healing, 543, 547, 673 heaven, 80, 87, 155-6, 189, 196-7, 207, 227,

490, 520, 537

heavy cavalry, 159, 161, 514, 517 heavy ploughs, 53-4, 313, 315 heavy soils, 53, 55, 336

Hebrew, 22, 131, 300, 304, 344, 347

Heian Japan, 120, 164, 180, 221, 330, 448, 473

heirs, 11-12, 72, 82, 138, 160, 164, 513, 516,

534, 539

Hellas, 569

Henan Province, 456

Heraclius, Byzantine emperor, 21, 155-7,

563-4

Herat, 246, 248

herds, 111, 150, 359, 371, 489, 538 heresy, 87, 420-1

heretics, 81, 104

Hermann of Carinthia, 354, 356

Hermes, 342-3

hermits, 103, 426

Herodotus, 247 hierarchies, 100-2, 190, 228, 489, 577, 642,

648, 669, 679

and government

Eurasia, 98-101

local, 98, 107, 669

political, 100, 108

religious, 34, 103, 562 social, 28, 75, 98, 103, 109, 420, 531, 553 and solidarity, 94-113 hieroglyphs, 341, 633

High Middle Ages, 53, 57, 210, 257, 281, 315, 334

high officials, 133, 187, 194, 200, 527, 538 Hijaz, 300, 404

Himalayas, 122

Hindu traditions, 215, 680

Hinduism, 30, 85, 104, 125, 288, 293, 306, 355, 402, 665

Hippo, 417-18 hippodromes, 181, 185 historical records, 142, 145, 330, 458, 501, 604,

630

historiography, 12, 67, 95-6, 320, 330, 680 Hocquet, Jean-Claude, 281

Holy Land, 435, 444

Holy Roman Empire, 222, 419, 497-8, 510 homosexuality, 86-7

Honduras, 624

honey, 44, 243, 277, 595

Honnecourt, Villard de, 326 honor, 71, 74, 84, 153, 185, 460, 676

Horden, Peregrine, 59, 257, 276

Hormuz, 279, 297

Horn of Africa, 170, 394, 486 horsemanship, 147, 163 horsemen, 149-50, 154, 161, 163, 170 horses, 170, 174, 239, 242, 333-4, 363, 589, 591, 595, 597

war, 245, 524

hostages, 543, 653

hostels, 129, 132 household work, 305 households, 28, 72, 74-5, 77, 81-2, 116, 188,

621, 654-6

imperial, 181-2

houses, 74-5, 80, 133, 137-8, 299, 647, 649-51, 657-8

Hsiung-nu, 365-6

Huamachuco, 660

Huang Chao, 11, 523, 166

Huanuco Pampa, 657

Huari (Wari), 640-1, 643, 660

Huarochiri, 661

Hugo of Santalla, 352-3

Huichang Persecution, 470

Huizinga, Johan, 43, 47, 63, 68

human nature, 46, 56, 117

Hungarians, 166, 368-9

Hungary, 20, 162, 166, 171, 282, 368, 390, 392-3, 534-5

hunger, 58, 147, 162

Huns, 66, 375

hunters, 187, 607

husbands, 71-5, 77, 80, 87-9, 91

hydraulic societies, 47

hydraulic works, 323, 329

Hyech'o, 464

Iberian peninsula, 2, 81, 126, 269, 276, 395, 506, 569, 671, 681

Ibiza, 260, 281

Ibn ‘ Abdun, 351-2

Ibn Battuta, 43, 50, 293, 543, 586, 599, 602, 680

Ibn Fadlan, 389-91, 395

IbnJubayr, 15, 293, 680

Ibn Khaldun, 110, 134, 361, 377, 379, 599

Ibn Khurdadhbih, 263

Iceland, 22, 243, 277, 340

iconography, 196, 441, 634, 682

idealization, 192, 196

ideals, 100, 125, 666

ideologies, 51, 235-6, 318, 500-1, 537

political, 525, 531, 553

Ifriqiya, 263, 276-7

Ilkhanate, 535, 540, 547-8, 553

Ilkhanid Iran, 539, 545, 677

Ilterish, 146, 152

imitation, 208, 261, 320, 326, 518, 650 immigrants, 102-3, 121, 332, 518, 522, 548 imperial administration, 33, 555, 644 imperial bodyguards, 181, 184 imperial capitals, 416, 561, 623, 631, 638, 647 imperial ceremonies, 185, 561 imperial courts, 75, 182-3, 217, 221, 226, 235, 306, 531

imperial expansion, 157, 488, 491, 496, 504

imperial families, 181, 183-4, 193, 197, 473, 567

imperial households, 181-2

imperial ideology, 490, 560

imperial power, 180-1, 222, 487, 494, 508, 576 imperial rule, 214, 220, 227, 491, 494 imperial sovereignty, 33, 508, 530 imports, 23, 239, 294, 304, 601, 623, 672 Inca, 3, 50, 137, 140, 638-40, 642-63, 682

ancestors, 642, 645, 647-8, 662 capital, 25, 138 conquests and diplomacy, 650-5, 682 empire, 16, 35, 639-40, 656, 667, 682 state and religion, 638-63

homeland, 642, 654

myth of origin, 642, 645, 650 origins in documentary sources, 642-5 regions and households, 655-63 religion, 648, 659-63, 682 rulers, 35, 111, 643, 645-6, 648, 650-1, 656 sources of Andean history, 639-42 state, 111, 638, 642, 644, 654, 656-8 and Sun, 645-50, 660, 682

Inca Pachacuti, 645, 648, 656, 662

India, 11-13, 89-90, 98-9, 103-4, 218-19, 224-5, 241-2, 263-4, 301-5

central, 215, 375, 455 courts, 179, 181, 197 eastern, 451, 462 northern, 72-3, 165, 169, 238-9, 447, 451, 462, 468-9, 543, 545

northwest, 82

and pastoral nomads, 375-6 peninsular, 238-9

southern, 108, 169-70, 240, 250, 305, 429, 451, 474, 548, 675

state formation and empire building, 501-4

trade, 288, 300-1, 674

west coast, 290-2, 299-300, 304

Indian Ocean, 5, 235-6, 239, 250-2, 287-8, 290-3, 393-5

interconnectedness, 305-6 Islamic civilization, 393-4 western, 287-8, 290, 292, 294, 299, 302

Indian slaves, 82, 303

Indian subcontinent, 19, 215-16, 219, 224, 287, 299, 303, 305, 316

Indicancha, 642, 646 indigo, 296

indirect taxes, 522, 524-5, 531 Indonesia, 241, 276, 503 industrial revolution, 68, 213, 220, 254, 314 industrialization, 666, 684 inequality, 94, 97, 102-3, 110, 113, 669, 678 infantry, 149-50, 154, 161, 167 infectious diseases, 66, 662

infidels, 547, 571 information, 2, 4, 7-8, 11, 13, 15-16, 94, 362,

639

infrastructures, 31, 158, 235, 243, 316, 336, 381,

509, 551

inheritance, 28, 72, 89-90, 98, 104, 112, 164, 197, 220, 223-4

Inner Asia, 365-7, 370, 375, 537

Inner China, 500

Inner Eurasia, 484, 486, 488-92, 499, 501, 507,

510, 514

interactions with adjacent civilizations, 487-93

Inner Mongolia, 370

Innocent III, 82, 421 innovation, 31, 68, 214, 250, 266-7, 309-10, 353,

489, 514, 539

and technologies, 309-37

inscriptions

Somanath-Veraval, 297-8

Tamil, 73, 305

instability, 34, 52, 562, 576, 579 dynastic, 366, 600 ecological, 48

institutions, 32-3, 116-17, 122-4, 133-4, 142, 209, 419-20, 505-6

Christian, 32, 141, 416, 442 educational, see educational institutions.

Islamic civilization, 405-8 monastic, 450, 452, 464, 467-70, 473, 475-6 political, 151, 207, 215, 516, 519, 612 religious, 103, 299, 329, 519, 532, 670, 683 insurance, 260, 266-7 integration, 33, 120, 225, 303, 311, 554, 650, 666, 682

large-area, 20, 24

political, 1, 361 regional, 35, 667, 682 intellectual life, 213, 435, 529 intensive cultivation, 488, 522, 611 interactions

cross-cultural, 297, 672

cross-regional, 462, 469

social, 94, 217

stylistic, 634, 682

interconnectedness, 233, 290, 305 interdependence, 117, 419, 506, 681 internal consolidation, 160, 172 international markets, 252, 551, 602 international trade, 34, 262, 264, 271, 276-7, 535, 550-1

Inuit, 61

invaders, 154, 172, 213, 489, 502, 639

Spanish, 111, 638, 649, 662

invasions, 71, 73, 76, 165-7, 373, 375, 572, 575 Mongol, 18, 166, 180, 221, 335, 376, 528 Muslim, 72, 81-2 nomadic, 365, 368, 377

inventions, 53, 62, 87, 267, 310, 317-19, 322, 341, 471

investment, 90, 122, 160, 253, 282, 315, 323-4, 336, 476, 527

investors, 265, 301, 550

Ioannina, 273, 581

Iodasaph, 22

Ionian Sea, 274, 579

Iran, 371, 373-4, 378-80, 391-2, 399-401, 491,

493, 543-4 see also Persia. bureaucracy, 369, 374 Mongol, 380, 443, 543 religions, 208, 225

Iranians, 271, 344, 402, 411, 488, 544

Iraq, 246, 248, 263-4, 393, 396-401, 411, 426-7, 534-5

Ireland, 95, 349, 416, 424

iron, 109, 111, 154, 162, 275, 282, 314, 518, 524-5 coins, 524 nails, 250, 675 technology, 591, 595 tools, 34, 595

irrigation, 47-8, 97, 111, 315, 621 canals, 641 cultures, 50, 67 networks, 65, 376

systems, 46-51, 58, 60, 680

Islam, 71-2, 134-6, 140-1, 389-95, 401-6, 430-1, 436-8, 545-7, 670-1

central Islamic lands, 298, 346, 403 and educational institutions, 131-5

Africa, 135-7

expansion, 215, 218, 385, 484-7, 504, 508-9, 671

madrasas, 131-4, 136, 141, 217, 350, 408, 678, 680

Sunni, 133, 374, 405

Islamic civilization, 32, 83, 133-4, 215, 217, 227, 484, 506-7, 671

African interior, 394-5

Atlantic, 395-6 centrality, 385-412 components, 405-12 culture, 408-11 far north, 389-93 Indian Ocean, 393-4

institutions, 405-8

origins, 411-12

regions around 1500

Arabian homeland, 403-4 former Byzantine provinces,

400-1

former Persian Empire, 398-400 old lands, 396 second wave of conquests, 401-3 state formation and empire building, 504-8 Turks, 391-3

Islamic conquests, 71, 89, 101, 122, 158, 671,

673, 676, 678, 681

Islamic courts, 179, 194, 201, 679

Islamic heartland, 30, 236-8, 241, 246, 252-3,

372, 507

Islamic law, 106, 132, 298, 405, 407, 430, 554,

602; see also shari‘a law

Islamic world, see Islamic civilization. Islamization, 27, 133, 391, 393, 547-9, 671, 676 Italian cities, 244, 332, 574, 578, 583 Italian city-states, 322, 552, 674 Italian fleets, 160, 268-9

Italians, 262, 266, 271-3, 275-6, 279, 284, 396,

497

Italy, 7, 77, 126-8, 258-9, 273, 277-9, 545,

562-4, 568, 572

northern, 159, 223, 497

southern, 160, 347, 567, 572

itinerant traders, 476, 672

ivory, 109, 195, 245, 348, 416, 572, 596

Jacobite Church, see Syriac Orthodox

Church.

Jacques Coeur, 261 al-Jahiz, 147

Jains, 73, 288

Jam, 540-1

Jamal al-Dιn, 4

James of Venice, 347

Japan, 2-3, 29, 63, 100, 179, 454-5, 458-61, 473,

516-19, 672

Confucianism and educational

institutions, 120-1

court, 180, 183, 193, 519

Heian, 120, 164, 180, 221, 330, 448, 473 Kamakura period, 121, 125, 221, 473 Kyoto, 180, 189, 221, 473, 519 Tokugawa regime, 222, 485

Jaroslav, Prince of Rus', 261

Java, 167, 240-1, 306, 393-4, 410, 465, 468, 476 see also Indonesia.

central, 241, 465

eastern, 241

west, 305

al-Jazari, 326 jealousy, 84, 88, 102, 599 Jenne, 109, 136, 588-9, 593, 596, 598, 600, 602-3, 607

Jerusalem, 7, 130, 155, 160, 162, 391, 418, 421, 432, 442-3

Kingdom of, 12, 17, 162, 442

Jesuits, 344, 355

Jesus, 356, 417, 419-20, 422-4, 427-8, 436, 560, 618, 620

sutras, 438

jewelry, 22, 85, 186, 597 Jewish communities, 78, 130, 237, 301, 304,

417, 428, 430

Jewish law, 130, 304

Jewish merchants, 27, 237, 263, 276, 301

Jewish scholars, 27, 347

Jewish women, 78, 89, 131

Jews, 13-14, 87, 130-1, 141, 263-4, 344, 346,

351-2, 429-30, 433-4

Baghdad, 237

Radhanite, 237, 263, 276

jihad, 571

Jimenez de Rada, Rodrigo, 12

Jin, 331, 528

Joan-Joan, 366

Joannes of Dalyatha, 434-5

Joannes of Phanijoit, 431

John IV Lascaris, 580

John V Palaiologos, 581

John VI Kantakouzenos, 581-2

joint family ownership, 90

Josaphat, 22

Joseph, husband of Mary, 424

Joseph b. David Lebdi, 301

Joseph Ibn ‘Awkal, 263

Judaism, 28, 141, 243, 369, 389, 404, 433, 437, 491, 665

and educational institutions, 130-1 Junagarh, 297

Jurchen, 65, 166-7, 324, 370-1, 380 Jurchen Jin, 317, 324, 528 jurisprudence, 132, 430, 535 justice, 28, 94, 99, 108-9, 156, 186, 191, 407, 493, 679

Justinian, Byzantine emperor, 82, 126, 154, 200, 345, 427, 484, 513, 560

Kaifeng, 166, 181, 324, 331, 524, 528, 554 kallanka, 656, 659

Kalyan, 288

Kamakura period, 121, 125, 221, 473

Kamalasila, 466

Kamalasri, 13

Kanheri, 290

Kaniaga, 606

kapikulu, 171

Karimis, 238, 264

Kashmir, 13, 348, 549

women, 73

Kedah, 458 keshig, 538-9, 541 khagans, 146, 152, 569-70 khanates, 243, 270, 426, 534, 540-3, 547, 551,

554

Chaghadaid, 535, 548

Mongol, 267, 547-8, 551 khanqah, 133-4 khans, 74, 277, 365, 538-40, 550 khaqanates, 516, 537

Khazar, 365, 368-9, 399

Turkic, 365-6

Uighur, 367

khatib, 299

Khazar khaqanate/state, 365, 368-9, 399

Khazars, 12, 243, 263, 365, 367-9, 389, 399, 437, 486, 491

khipus, 16, 140, 640, 655-8

Khitan Liao, 166, 317, 532

Khitans, 166, 367, 370-1, 380, 471, 523, 542, 554 Khosro I Anushirwan, of Persia, 154-5, 344-5 Khotan, 452, 457

Khubilai Khan, see Qubilai.

Khurasan, 132, 277, 373, 375

Khwarazm, 369, 376, 378

Kiev, 508, 554, 578

Killke, 642

Kimeks, 369 kinetic energy, 161, 173, 314 King of Kings, 399, 408

Kingui, 606

kinship, 70, 97, 112, 334, 668

groups, 137, 647-8, 650-1, 654, 662 rules of, 97, 112

ties, 70, 183, 437 knights, 161, 224, 363, 579 knowledge, 15, 116-18, 129-30, 135, 141-2,

319-21, 324-8, 351-4, 356, 680-1 astronomical, 438, 680 cultures, 328, 336 flows, 311, 378 geographical, 32, 476 religious, 28, 117, 134, 140-1, 678

scientific, 31, 342, 344, 351, 432, 680 technological, 312, 315, 337, 672, 680 transmission of, 26, 28, 117, 134, 329, 354 Kocho, 457 Koguryo, 459-60, 517-18 kola nuts, 595-6 kommerkion, 262, 274 Komnenoi, 509, 572, 575-80 Koran, see Quran.

Korea, 2, 120, 455, 459-60, 470, 472, 516-18, 531-2, 677

Confucianism and educational institutions, 119-20 Korean monks, 464, 472, 518 Korean Peninsula, 118-19, 467, 516-18, 677 Koryo, 120, 313, 472, 524 Kucha, 452, 457 Kumbi, 593 Kus⅛nas, 451-2 Kutch, 288, 294, 297 Kwon Kun, 2, 5

Kyoto, 180, 189, 221, 473, 519 Kyrgyzstan, 548, 554

labor, 66, 71, 77, 80, 265, 268-9, 313, 316, 332, 656-7

division of, 148, 159

services, 108, 111-12, 514, 522, 531-2, 641 ladies-in-waiting, 183-4, 193 Lagny, 272 Lake Patzcuaro, 50

Lake Titicaca, 638, 640, 645, 653, 657-8, 660 land grants, 106, 157, 180, 303 land revenues, 262, 519 land routes, 25, 277, 463, 574, 674 landed elites, 224, 379 landlords, 105-6, 108 landowners, 101, 105, 271, 568, 670

private, 121, 521, 568, 669 languages, 10, 345-7, 399, 401, 409, 411-12, 441, 633, 655

vernacular, see vernaculars. Languedoc, 281-2 Lascaris dynasty, 580 La Tana, 273, 276-7, 281 Late Middle Ages, 61, 67, 78, 322-3 Late Postclassic period, 617-18, 621-2, 624-6, 628 lateen sails, 268, 270-1 Latin Christendom, 26, 162, 214-15 Latin merchants, 273, 574, 582 Latins, 8, 11-12, 22, 126-8, 344, 347, 351-2, 424, 441, 579-80 law, 77, 81, 128-30, 132, 136, 138, 264-5, 407-9,

419

Buddhist, 549

canon, 77, 128 codes, 28, 83, 519

Eurasia, 104-6

Islamic, 106,132, 298, 405, 407, 430, 554, 602

Jewish, 130, 304

natural, 46, 322 religious, 71, 86, 88, 130, 676

Roman, 82-3, 158, 493

shari‘a, 71, 89-90, 676, 683

leaders, 108, 152, 298, 301, 545-6, 567, 570, 575-6

military, 138, 516, 525

religious, 156, 331

spiritual, 546

leadership, 266, 373, 435, 530, 547, 566, 579, 602 political, 504, 530

learning, transmission of, 116, 135, 141-2, 678 Lebdi, Joseph, 301

Lebdi family, 301, 303

Lechfeld, 368

legacies, cultural, 24, 29, 225, 499, 537, 681 legal partnerships, 90

legends, 10, 22, 342, 344, 422-4, 440, 465, 593-4

legitimacy, 151, 228, 492, 495, 507, 519, 535, 537, 547, 580

legitimation, 102

Leipzig, 273

Lekhapaddhati, 303, 305

lenders, 259, 265

lenses, 85, 667

Leo III, Byzantine emperor, 157, 159, 569

Leo VI, Byzantine emperor, 262 lesbians, 88

levirate marriages, 74, 545, 677

Li Yuan, 516

Liang China, 460

Liao, 166, 331, 370, 380, 440, 471, 491, 523-4 libraries, 136, 343, 347

monastic, 125-6

private, 136

Libya, 2, 136

licenses, 129, 141, 276, 421

life-estates, 154

lifestyles, 149, 252, 385, 424

light cavalry, 154, 161

Lille, 262, 272

Lima, 644, 650

linen, 238, 282

linguistic practices, 215, 224

linguists, 310, 611, 620, 633, 640

literacy, 72, 75, 77-8, 91, 98, 100, 116, 121,

131, 633

basic, 124, 126

literary traditions, 32, 199, 411, 519 literati, 213, 220, 227, 312

elite, 119, 220

literature, 59, 86, 132, 195-6, 393, 399-400, 543,

672

Arabic erotic, 88

Buddhist, 450, 454

classical, 45, 194

litters, 651, 654, 656

Little Ice Age, 58, 61, 249

liturgy, 124, 418-19, 427-9

Liu Ji, 75, 322 livestock, 146, 160, 272, 282, 360, 595 loans, 249, 259, 264, 471, 528, 632 local authorities, 254, 500, 669 local communities, 102, 105, 215, 297,

505, 669

local conditions, 35, 545, 667-8, 676, 681 local deities, 661-3

local elites, 34, 106, 499, 505, 559, 562, 567, 673, 679

local hierarchies, 98, 107, 669

local lords, 25, 98, 105, 226, 658

local rulers, 169-70, 303, 475, 502, 606

local societies, 531, 674, 681

Eurasia, 106-7

local trading communities, 287, 290-9, 451 local traditions, 410, 430, 444, 671, 678-9 localization, 454, 668

logistics, 29, 145, 166, 528, 530

Lombards, 153, 158, 259, 281

Lombardy, 282

London, 261-2, 266, 274, 277, 279 long-distance trade, 233, 239, 242-3, 245-6,

249-50, 252-3, 670-1

long-term sustainability, 589, 607 longbows, 173-4, 315 longevity, 34, 546 looting, 169, 361, 370

lords, 185, 191-2, 198, 644-5, 647, 653, 655, 657-8

local, 25, 98, 105, 226, 658

regional, 654, 656, 661-2

territorial, 66

Lorenzo the Magnificent, 260

Louis IV d'Outremer, 12

love, 44-5, 88, 190, 192-3, 198, 422, 434 lower Cuzco, 642, 648-9 loyalty, 163-4, 185, 538, 543, 566, 581

Lubeck, 261, 267, 277, 284

Lucca, 260, 282

Luhmann, Niklas, 57

Luoyang, 453, 456, 514-16, 524

Lupaqa, 658

An Lushan Rebellion, 166, 520-2, 525 lust, 89, 431

luxury commodities/goods, 251, 281, 287, 550-1, 597, 602, 670, 673, 679-80

Lyon, 273, 282, 418

Maca Uisa, 661

Macedonian dynasty, 213, 270, 576, 578 Machin, 13, 348

machines, 31, 311, 314, 319, 322, 326

McNeill, John R., 67

McNeill, John R. and William H., 46

Madhyamika, 466

Madmun b. Hasan b. Bundar, 301, 303 madrasas, 131-6, 141, 217, 350, 408, 678, 680 Maghreb, 263, 267, 276-9, 590, 594, 596-7, 600, 602, 606

Magyars, 159, 224, 368

Mahayana Buddhism, 122, 125, 452, 672

Mahdiya, 160, 263, 276, 301

Maitrakas, 295-6

maize, 46, 641, 647

maize wine, 647

Malabar Coast, 238-9, 254, 279, 293, 302, 418, 429, 437, 674

malaria, 49-50

Malay Peninsula, 240, 305, 393, 458, 486

Malaya, 335, 429, 675

Malays, 250, 526, 675

male courtiers, 184, 189

male prostitutes, 87

male relatives, 24, 190

male slaves, 81

Mali, 109-10, 135-6, 395, 586, 588, 592-3, 597-607

Empire, 34, 586, 590, 597-602, 604, 606-7

Malindi, 4, 135

Mallorca, 260, 269, 276

Malukus, 241

Mama Ocllo, 651

Mamacatequil, 660

Mamluks, 133, 135, 169, 171, 225, 249, 268, 363,

545 warfare, 162-6

Manchuria, 367, 378, 488, 514, 517, 523, 528, 535, 540, 551

Manco Capac, 642, 646-7, 649-50

Mande, 588, 590, 598-9, 606

chiefdoms, 597-9, 606

Manding, 586-7, 596

Mangalore, 301-4 manhood, 88, 165

Manichaeism, 208, 219, 225, 392, 401, 491, 546

Manigramam, 305

Manjusri cult, 465, 472 manpower, 29, 145, 157, 237, 538

Mansa Musa, 110, 136, 600-2, 604

Mansa Sulayman, 600-2

al-Mansur, Caliph, 348, 433

Manuel I Komnenos, 347, 574, 578 manufactured goods, 242, 253 manumission, 81, 83, 304

Manzikert, 374, 435, 576 mapmakers, 5-8, 10 mappa mundi, 14

maps, 2-10, 14, 387, 447, 543-4, 612, 656 Chinese, 2-4

circular, 5, 8

imported, 2, 10 world, 1-2, 5-10, 14, 680

Marco Polo, 8, 15, 84, 97, 443, 543, 548, 552,

555

maritime communities, 30, 287-306 maritime networks, 297, 299, 460, 474, 476,

671

maritime routes, 30, 247, 250, 274, 277, 452, 455, 551-2, 674-5

maritime technology, 250, 675 maritime trade, 59, 270, 287-8, 290, 295, 548 markers, sacred, 642, 645

market economy, 530-1

market inspectors, 300, 303

marketplaces, 271, 283, 290, 298, 395, 621, 632 markets, 82, 264, 266, 271-4, 471, 597, 632-3,

682-3

commercial, 264-5, 267 expanding, 244, 525 international, 252, 551, 602 rural, 271-2

urban, 271-2

Marks, Robert B., 67

marriage, 72-4, 76-7, 87, 89, 91, 196-7, 304,

436

alliances, 35, 147, 621, 643

contracts, 71, 676 deeply embedded patterns of, 70, 668 levirate, 74, 545, 677

same sex, 87

Marriage at Cana, 436

marriage gifts, 71, 90, 676-7

Marseille, 2, 7, 261, 269, 276-7

Martin of Troppau, 13

martyrs, 418, 422, 431, 571

Coptic, 431

Mary, Virgin, 416, 422-4, 435-6, 444 masts, 251, 268, 271

al-Mas'udι, ιι, 292

material culture, 329-30, 545, 624

material resources, 362, 542 mathematics, 16, 128, 132, 138, 322, 346 matrilocality, 70, 668 mats, 330, 595

Mauritania, 402, 404, 411, 589, 593, 606

Maveraunnahr, 369

Maximus the Confessor, 420, 435

Maya, 16, 50, 60, 85, 137, 174, 610, 622-4, 633 cities, 137, 618, 682

Classic, 6ιι, 613-14, 618, 624, 633, 682 collapse, 60 culture, 16, 60 highlands, 623-4

lowlands, 614-15, 622-3, 626

Mayapan, 623-4

Mecca, 134, 136, 156, 273, 298, 300, 404, 406,

599-600

mediation, 328, 424, 432, 436-7

trade, 361

medicine, 122, 125, 128-9, 132, 342, 355, 543, 679-80

Medicis, 260, 266

Medieval Climate Optimum, 58, 61, 334, 336

Medieval Europe, 45, 58, 76-7, 94, 96, 99,109, 125-6, 314-15

Medina, 156, 298, 404, 408, 432, 564

Mediterranean, 5-7, 59, 247, 257, 269-70, 276,

279-84, 427, 552, 572

eastern, 21, 24, 30, 58,133,160, 257, 273, 349, 385

western, 259, 269

Mediterranean trade networks, 257-84 Melitene, 571, 575

Meloria, 259

Mema, 599, 606

memorization, 132, 134, 324, 395

memory, 102, 214, 399-400, 402, 453, 599, 647

merchandise, 252, 254, 263-5, 268, 270, 275, 277, 300, 328

heavy, 268, 271

merchant associations, 30, 261, 305-6

merchant class, 238, 245, 252-3, 259 professional, 30, 233, 674

merchant communities, 438, 450, 476 merchant guilds, 216, 306, 451 merchants, 30-1, 237-8, 243-4, 258, 260-5, 290, 295-6, 299-301, 551

Byzantine, 572, 574

Egyptian, 601-2

English, 275, 277 foreign, 237, 262, 272, 275, 303, 306

Frisian, 258, 272, 276

German, 261

itinerant, 476, 672 Jewish, 27, 237, 263, 276, 301

Latin, 273, 574, 582

Muslim, 109, 135, 237, 262, 266-7, 297, 393,

550

Saxon, 258, 276

and their associations, 258-64 wealthy, 276, 431

Merchants Venturers, 262, 283

Merinids, 259

Mesoamerica, 23, 25, 34, 137, 331, 487, 681-2 ancient, 610-11, 623, 631, 633

Classic, 614-16

Postclassic, 25, 34, 682

regional trajectories, 616-22 state formation, 610-35

cities and urbanization, 630-2

data and methods, 612 demographic and agricultural growth, 626-7

growth of commercial networks, 632 migrations, 627

polity growth and decline, 628 processes and connections, 626 scholarly approaches, 611-12 writing systems and literacy, 633-4 and world history, 634-5

Yucatan, 622-3

Mesopotamia, 48, 154, 218, 281, 372, 398, 432, 564-5

Christianity, 418

Messines, 272

metal, currency, 30, 264 metallurgy, 23, 518, 642 metals, 244, 261, 268, 275, 283, 287, 320, 405, 468, 590

precious, 239, 249, 267, 550, 598 metaphysics, 339, 350

Mexicanization, 624, 634

Mexico, 23, 50, 614-16, 623-4

Basin of, 6ιι, 616-17, 621-2, 625, 631 central, 612, 615-18, 620-1, 624, 626-32 City, 615-16

Gulf of, 623, 625, 634

west, 23, 25, 623, 625-6, 682

Michael VII Doukas, 576, 578

Michael VIII Palaiologos, 259, 580

Middle Ages, 43-4, 52-3, 56, 58, 66-8, 95,

279-81, 310-11

Early, 53, 258-9, 276, 281, 283

High, 53, 57, 210, 257, 281, 315, 334

Late, 61, 67, 78, 322-3

Middle East, 98, 363, 369, 372, 386, 407, 411,

598, 600, 602

Middle Millennium, 31-4, 55-9, 209-10,

309-10, 667-9, 671-6, 681-4 political landmarks defining, 483-7 for today's historians, 15-17

Middle Niger, 136, 588, 592, 605

Bend, 586

Delta, 588-9, 593, 599, 603, 606

Middle Persian, 191, 409

Middle Volga, 243, 367, 377, 673 middlemen, 236, 239, 244, 596 migrations, 359-60, 362, 364-5, 371, 373, 377-9,

624, 627-8, 671

Aztlan, 627

nomadic, 31, 152, 359-60, 362, 364-5, 372,

375-6, 381, 672-3

Postclassic Mesoamerica, 627-8

Milan, 261, 266, 282, 418

military aristocracy, 370, 575

military classes, 149, 158, 199

military commanders, see commanders.

military elites, 151, 221, 331, 379, 506 military leaders, 138, 516, 525

military service, 74, 153, 159, 164, 185, 366, 370, 374, 438, 569

military skills, 363, 426

military training, 138, 149, 362 milk, 73, 146 mills, 133, 313-14

oil, 296

paper, 26

mines, 150, 244-5, 267, 331

Ming, 119, 121, 168, 220, 235-6, 249-50, 315,

317, 499, 532

Emperor, 453

mining, 62, 65, 68, 150, 318, 525, 658 regions, 269, 315, 322

mints, 249, 303, 396, 590

missionaries, 429, 437, 440, 477, 547, 560 mita, 658, 663

mitayoc, 658

Mixtecs, 625, 633

mobile secretariats, 539, 541, 673 mobility, 51, 154, 156, 348, 589 social, 101, 107, 118 mobilization, 33, 493, 497-8, 542-3, 554 modernity, 53, 222, 485

industrialized, 336 modernization, 665-7 Modon, 274, 279 Mogadishu, 4, 135 Moheyan, 466 Mohina, 640 Mon, 125, 457 monasteries, 7, 103, 124-6, 138, 140, 434, 454,

456, 468-9, 515

Buddhist, 140, 453, 466, 471 Christian, 77, 126, 140

Vikramasila, 467-9 monastic communities, 122, 450, 452, 455, 475,

504 monastic institutions, 450, 452, 464, 467-70,

473, 475-6

Buddhist, 104, 118, 121-3, 125-6, 140, 152,

306, 470, 472 monastic libraries, 125-6 monastic life, 124, 421 monastic orders, 129, 215, 223-4 monastic schools, 117, 122-3, 126, 131 Monemvasia, 262, 581 monetary policies, 523-4, 554 monetization, 33, 245, 518, 527 money, 23, 43, 83, 239, 244, 249, 567, 569, 571,

632 moneychangers, 266, 574 Mongke, 20, 441, 539, 541 Mongol China, 2, 11, 378, 393, 440, 548 Mongol conquests, 9, 24, 30, 96, 227, 391, 393,

673, 677, 683

Mongol empire, 11, 13, 225, 246-7, 491-2, 548, 672, 674

building of, 537-41 cross-cultural exchange, 541-5 economic exchange, 550-3 and inter-civilizational exchange, 534-55 legacy of Mongol statecraft, 553-4 religious exchange, 546-50

Mongol fleets, 167

Mongol invasions, 18, 166, 180, 221, 335, 376,

528

Mongol Iran, 380, 443, 543 Mongol khanates, 267, 547-8, 551 Mongol princes, 167, 548, 551 Mongol statecraft, 553 Mongol Yuan, see Yuan.

Mongolia, 367, 372, 375, 378, 469, 534, 537, 551 Inner, 370

Outer, 370

Mongolian silk, 274, 277

Mongols, 13-14, 20-1, 165-7, 246-7, 371-2, 491-2, 535-51, 553-5see also Mongol empire.

armies, 530, 547

China, 2, 11, 166-8, 378, 393, 440, 548 empire building, 537-41 warfare, 162-6 with China, 166-70

monks, 124-5, 200, 424-6, 447, 460, 463-6, 470, 472-4

Buddhist, 447, 453-4, 457, 467, 469, 471, 474, 672

Chinese, 454, 462-4, 472

Korean, 464, 472, 518

Monophysites, 560, 563

monopolies, 238, 252, 261-2, 275, 281, 527, 572 monotheism, 404, 411

Monte Alban, 616, 625, 682

Montpellier, 261, 276

monumental architecture, 588, 620 monuments, 111, 456, 622

Buddhist, 471, 515

Islamic, 297

Moore, R. I., 216

Moraes Farias, Paulo, 603-5

morality, 328, 666

Confucian, 76

Morea, 581, 583

Morocco, 5, 26, 348, 389, 395, 402, 601-2, 606 Sultan of, 601-2

mosaics, 195, 416, 444, 572

Moscow, 426, 554

princes, 365

Moses, 130

Moses of Bergamo, 347

mosques, 133, 135-6, 294, 299, 408, 432, 601 local, 299

Mosul, 160, 346

mothers, 72, 84, 189, 422-4, 428, 662, 668 see also parents

mounted postal courier system, 540, 673

Mozarabs, 347

mudae, 269-70, 279

Mughals, 215, 229, 484-5

Muhammad ibn al-Muzallik, 264

Muhammad (Prophet), 11, 13, 81-2, 404-6, 409-10, 429-30, 433, 548-9

multilingual dictionaries, 543

multiple modernities, 666-7

Muluk, 604-5

mural paintings, 618, 625

Murasaki Shikibu, 75

Muscovy, 535, 553

music, 81, 129, 138, 182, 193-4, 196, 340, 545,

672

musicians, 197, 290, 345, 593, 602

Muslim conquests, see Islamic conquests.

Muslim faith, see Islam.

Muslim invasions, 72, 81-2

Muslim merchants, 135, 262, 266-7, 297, 393,

550

Muslim rule, 392, 396, 424, 681

Muslim rulers, 32, 136, 331, 392, 406, 408, 432, 563, 681

Muslim scholars, 4, 134, 377

Muslim societies, 72, 406-10

Muslim Spain, 26, 263, 346, 394, 396, 403, 676

Muslim states, 171, 395-6, 404, 561

Muslim traders, 109, 237

Muslim world, 136-7, 262-3, 265, 282-3, 404, 406, 543-5, 551-4

Muslims, 78-9, 141, 275, 292-3, 390-5, 409-10, 431-2, 440-1, 548

Myanmar, 452, 457, 468, 474-6 mystics, 44, 79, 409

women, 79

myth of origin, Inca, 642, 645, 650

Nagapattinam, 306

Nagarjunakonda, 451, 457

Nahray b. Nissim, 263

Nahrwara, 301

Nahuatl, 620

Naiman, 424, 437

Nalanda, 122, 125, 331, 454, 457, 462-4, 467,

678

Naples, 276, 283, 567, 580

Nara, 180, 519

Narasimhavarman II, 306

Narbonne, 261

narrative traditions, 35, 643

narratives, 309, 417, 424, 587, 643, 645 epic, 587 historical, 644 religious, 424

Nasir al-Din, 348

Native Americans, 174

natural environment, 361, 648

natural laws, 46, 322

natural pastures, 359, 363

natural resources, 56, 62-4, 237, 252, 360, 606 natural science, 128, 339, 344-5, 350, 353 Nava Vihara, 345

navigable waterways, 245, 522 navigation, 250, 268-71, 279, 675

navigation, (cont.) coastal, 268, 270, 277

Nawbahar, 345 Needham, Joseph, 340 needles, 319, 597, 625 negotiation, 35, 150, 652, 659 Negroponte, 274, 279 neighbors, 101, 106, 159, 161, 166, 169-70, 336, 519, 554

Neo-Confucianism, 120-1, 214, 220, 486, 500, 522, 530-2 neolocality, 70, 77, 668 Nestorian Christianity, 194, 208, 225, 227, 426-8, 437-8, 441, 444 Netherlands, 47, 273, 281, 494, 497 networks, 236-7, 291, 293, 448, 451, 454, 476-7, 560-1

Buddhist, 462, 473, 672 commercial, 34, 257, 471, 596, 632 of exchange, 465, 654 global, 341, 552 irrigation, 65, 376 maritime, 297, 299, 460, 474, 476, 671 trade, see trade networks.

New Deal, 45, 51 Niane, D.T., 598 Niger, 135, 245, 586, 598, 600, 602, 606

Bend, 589, 596, 602-4, 607 Middle, see Middle Niger.

Upper, 586, 597-8, 607 Nile, 48, 403, 564

Valley, 394, 401 Nineveh, 155, 346, 434 nobility/nobles, 101, 112, 137-8, 196, 201, 211, 218, 621, 651-2 noble savage, 55 nomadic conquests, 31, 52, 376, 379, 381, 673 see also pastoral nomadism, migrations and conquests nomadic invasions, 365, 368, 377 nomadic migrations, 31, 152, 359-60, 362, 364-5, 372, 375-6, 381, 672-3 nomadic realms, 46, 50-2 nomadic rulers, 31, 377, 380-1, 544 nomadic societies, 29-30, 145, 362-3, 489, 669-70, 673 nomadic statehood, 364, 366 nomadic states, 361, 366, 369, 375, 378, 470, 489, 673 nomadic tribes, 366, 437, 471, 476 nomadic warriors, 363, 564 nomadism, 50-2, 57, 373, 375, 488-9 pastoral, see pastoral nomadism.

nomads, 50-2, 146, 148-9, 360-7, 369-81,

437-8, 488

Berber, 394, 596

Oghuz, 369, 373

steppe, 146, 161, 437, 516-17, 530

Turkic, 367-9, 371, 373-4, 377

non-Deistic religions, 208, 339

non-state societies, 611-12

Nordic route, 277-9

Norfolk, 281

Normandy, 161, 283

North Africa, 19, 51, 160, 245, 377-8,

402-3, 416-17, 589-90, 597-8, 600-2

North Caucasus, 368

North China, 166-8, 370-1, 437-8, 455, 488-9,

491, 522-3

North Sea, 243, 257, 261, 276

Northampton, 272

northern Europe, 17, 53, 95, 128, 215, 257, 261, 279, 284, 310

northern India, 72-3, 165, 169, 238-9, 447, 451, 462, 468-9, 543, 545

Northern Song, 65

Northern Wei, 152, 455, 513-16, 521, 530 political legacy, 513-14

Northern Zhou, 524

Northwest India, 82

Notaras, 262, 582

notaries, 188, 265

Novara, 259

Novgorod, 16, 261, 274, 277, 279, 416

Peterhof, 261, 274

Nubia, 135, 267, 394, 427

nuns, 73, 76-7, 79, 122, 124-5, 128, 447, 470

Nuremberg, 261, 284

oars, 268, 270

oases, 244, 403-4, 477, 488

oasis states, 365, 451, 457, 673

oaths, 103, 199

Oaxaca, 610-11, 616, 623, 625

Odantapuri, 468

offerings, 197, 644, 646-8, 661

officials, 101, 104, 106, 118-19, 290, 527, 531,

540, 577

high, 133, 187, 194, 200, 527, 538 literati, 380, 520

Oghuz, 369, 373, 391-2, 399

Ogodei, 379, 440, 539-40

oil, 268, 281, 298, 330, 404, 578

mills, 296

Oljeitu, Il-Khan, 14

Oman, 294, 404

openness, 227, 322, 389 oracles, 646, 660-3 oral contracts, 198

oral traditions, 34, 137, 592, 598-9, 603 importance for West African history, 587-8

oral transmission, 31, 306 Oriental Despotism, 96, 99, 105 Orthodox Christianity, 427, 534, 544 ortoqs, 551-2

Ostrogoths, 427, 484 Ostrom, E., 47, 64

Otto I, 368, 441

Ottomans, 49, 171-2, 229, 271, 318, 484, 506-8, 561, 580-3

conquests, 262, 283, 392, 396 Outer Eurasia, 491

state

empire and religion, 493-4

Outer Mongolia, 370 overgrazing, 51 overland routes, 135, 235, 237, 247, 250, 452,

525, 551-2, 674

overland trade, 247, 378, 381, 673-4 overlordships, 366, 510

owners, 83, 290, 293, 299, 541, 649 ownership, 77, 83, 160, 223, 269, 302, 568, 592 joint family, 90

Oxford, 128-9

pacarinas, 650, 663 Pacaritambo, 642, 645

Pachacamac, 644, 648, 650, 660-3 Pachacuti, 644-53, 656, 660, 662

Pacific, 70, 237, 545, 670, 683

coast, 25, 624-5, 638, 641, 651, 654, 682 pacification, 6, 224 pack animals, 245, 248 Paekche, 459-60, 517-18

Pagan, 125, 305, 474 pagan populations, 390-1 pageantry, 198, 602 painting, 194-5, 321, 330, 467, 545, 656

wall, 196, 444

Pala period, 468-9 Pala Tantric art, 468 palaces, 180-1, 183, 186-8, 190, 197-9, 331, 618, 620, 622, 631

Palaiologoi, 262, 561, 574, 580, 583 Palermo, 347, 349

Palestine, 51, 157, 415-16, 420, 432, 436, 563 pamphyloi, 268, 270 pan-Asianism, 477 panacas, 647, 662

Pannonia, 365-7

Paolino Veneto, 7 papacy, 224, 484, 495-6, 501, 510, 582 papal court, 179-80, 679 paper mills, 26

Parakramabahu I, 474-5 paraphernalia, 454-5, 462, 474

religious, 326, 447, 456, 465 parents, 80, 83, 86, 88 see also fathers;

mothers.

elderly, 90, 677

Pariacaca, 661

Paris, 7, 107, 128, 181, 266, 271-2 parish duties, 444

partners, 86, 88, 244, 263, 265, 301, 551

trading, see trading partners. partnerships, 30, 245, 297, 301, 303, 632

legal, 90

passageways, 30, 233, 239, 250 pastoral nomadism, 241, 359-60, 364, 375

migrations and conquests, 359-81 causes, 360-3 effects, 376-81 Eurasian steppes

semi-deserts and deserts, 363-72 India, 375-6

Near and Middle East and North Africa, 372-5

regional developments, 363-76 pastoralism, 52, 241, 362, 375, 378, 488 pasture farming, 48, 51 pastures, 52-4, 105, 360

natural, 359, 363

unutilized and unclaimed, 360, 673 paternal rights, 82-3, 89 patriarchate, 181, 197, 418, 560-1 patrilocality, 70, 668

patronage, 100, 102, 183, 329, 447, 451, 468, 474, 567, 570

aristocratic, 183, 195 patrons, 12, 72, 133, 138, 163, 192, 194, 353-4 pattana, 292 Patzcuaro, Lake, 50

Pax Chazarica, 368

Pax Mongolica, 8, 247, 329, 348, 680, 683 peace, 88, 149-50, 152, 155, 247, 315, 551 Pearl River, 49

peasants, 49, 53, 62-3, 65-6, 100, 105, 108, 565-6, 568, 575

English, 108, 333 Pechenegs, 368-9

Pegolotti, Francesco Balducci, 267

Pelagonia, 580

Peloponnese, 273, 564, 569, 581 pepper, 239, 251, 262, 264, 301 perfUmes, 574, 597 periodizations, 483, 485, 682, 684 peripheries, 157, 243, 310, 328, 387, 497, 501,

567, 592

Periplus Maris Erythraei, 291-2, 304 Perpignan, 260

persecution, 27, 78, 104, 130, 420, 427-8, 431,

470

Persia, 153-4, 157, 164, 166, 236, 246-7, 432, 560, 564 see also Iran.

Empire, 396-400, 429, 437 northern, 420

Sasanian, 154, 484, 487

warfare, 153-5

Persian Gulf, 24, 238, 250-1, 279, 293, 297,

428, 474, 551, 553

Persian statecraft, 505, 507

Persians, 12-13, 154, 292, 343, 346, 349, 352, 399-401, 438

Peru, 16, 638-9, 643, 650-1, 658, 663

Peruzzi, 259, 266

Peter, St., 418

Peterhof, 261, 274

petitions, 16, 188

Petrus Alfonsi, 342, 350

Philoponus, John, 345

philosophy, 120, 122, 208, 211, 339, 344-6, 348, 351-3, 409

political, 117, 515

Phocaea, 259, 274

physical environment, 309, 334

physical stability, 29, 201

physicians, see doctors.

Piacenzans, 259

Picardy, 281-2

piepowders, 258

piety, 72, 134, 422

Piguerao, 660

Pikillacta, 640-1

pilgrimage sites, 288, 462, 464, 467, 472-3 pilgrimages, 134, 136, 288, 294, 435-6, 442,

462-4, 599-600, 602

pilgrims, 14, 17, 27, 31, 44, 126, 300, 306, 420, 426

pillaging, 149, 571

piracy, 169, 251, 268-9, 291, 331, 564

Pisa, 160, 260, 266, 269, 271, 274, 276,

283, 574

Pisans, 259, 274

plague, 62, 66, 91, 98, 248, 334, 379, 562, 565-6,

674

Planhol, Xavier de, 57

plants, 44, 316, 335-6, 667

new, 316, 683

Plato, 126, 351, 353

ploughs, 45, 54, 109, 111, 311 heavy, 53-4, 313, 315

plundering, 35, 51, 152, 159, 240, 243, 249, 550, 643

pluralism, 214, 222-3, 227, 497

religious, 225, 499, 542

poetry, 15, 75, 87, 118, 193-5, 199, 215, 409, 412 poets, 77, 194-5, 351

court, 193-4

Poitiers, 158, 418

Poland, 5, 162, 419

political alliances, 185, 190, 545

political authority, 190, 296, 455, 471, 474, 532 political elites, 151, 221, 226, 303, 361, 379, 389, 521, 666, 681

political fragmentation, 11, 101, 238, 495, 513, 524, 537, 670, 682

political hierarchies, 100, 108

political ideology, 525, 531, 553

political institutions, 151, 207, 215, 516,

519, 612

political leadership, 504, 530

political orders, 33, 142, 207-8, 217, 219-22, 224-8, 406, 516, 519

political organization, 60, 365, 592, 626 political philosophy, 117, 515

political power, 116, 118, 201, 222, 226, 235, 392, 403, 458, 466

real, 182, 228

vacuum, 670

political practices, 207-8, 220

political stability, 332, 670, 673

political unity, 101, 237, 442, 669

politics, 51, 104, 113, 119, 165, 200, 252, 260, 496, 504

poll taxes, 429, 432

Pollock, Sheldon, 218-19, 224, 435

Polo, Marco, 8, 15, 84, 97, 443, 543, 548, 552,

555

polygamy, 73, 88, 190 polygyny, 71, 76, 84, 676

Poma de Ayala, Guaman, 639, 657, 661 popes, 13, 56, 103, 129, 141, 189, 442-3, 560, 566 see also names of individual popes.

rival, 180

popularity, 466, 471, 473, 475

population

estimates, 19, 98, 181, 244, 248-9, 253, 618-19, 626, 631

growth, 53-4, 91, 522, 525, 617, 620-1, 624, 626, 682

and history, 18-20

pressures, 66, 336

porcelain, 239, 251, 294, 312, 335, 522, 679 ports, 82, 259, 269, 276-7, 294, 452, 574 Portugal, 22, 174, 281, 498

Portuguese, 170, 254, 284, 328 post-Han China, 448

postal courier system, mounted, 540, 673 Postan, Michael M., 53

Postclassic International Style, 624, 633 Postclassic Mesoamerica, see Mesoamerica, Postclassic.

potters, 296, 305, 312, 656

pottery, 16, 293, 595-6; see also ceramics; porcelain

power, 151, 157-8, 179-80, 189-90, 199-201, 490-1, 509-10, 575-8, 605-6, 669-70

balance of, 491, 509, 531, 570

caliphal, 505-6

central, 98, 179, 370, 374, 502, 566, 571, 580, 669

centres, 29, 98, 179, 218, 328, 404, 497, 503, 669, 679

coercive, 63, 211, 217, 229, 361, 631 distribution of, 190, 683 imperial, 180-1, 222, 487, 494, 508, 576 of life, 80, 85 military, 164, 516, 531 political, see political power. social, 151, 314, 328, 496, 500

state, 122, 247, 332, 509, 522, 546, 588, 630 structures, 496, 506-7

Prato, 260, 265

prayers, 44, 132, 197, 199, 434-5, 440, 458

Friday, 389-90, 405, 407-8 pre-Columbian America, 3, 35, 137, 638, 682 preachers, 200, 298, 426, 457, 547 precious metals, 239, 249, 267, 550, 598;

see also gold; silver

prefectures, 95, 562, 565

Prester John, 440

prestige, 73, 132, 157, 250, 484, 519, 541, 551,

561-2

prices, 81, 83, 170, 252, 264, 276, 564, 566, 580, 583

priests, 31, 79, 88-9, 103, 124, 137-40, 418, 424, 437-8, 441 primogeniture, 90, 189-90, 197, 224, 662 princes, 182-4, 186, 190, 192, 197, 199-200, 550, 552

Mongol, 167, 548, 551 princesses, 183-4, 545, 578, 677 printing, 75, 124, 313, 317 woodblock, 14, 26, 124, 314 prisoner's dilemma, 63 prisoners of war, returning, 14, 680 private landowners, 121, 521, 568, 669 private libraries, 136 private trade, 235-6 privileges, 102, 127, 129, 153, 261, 322, 329, 352-3, 542, 546 productivity, 217, 268, 316, 360, 525, 666 professional merchant class, 30, 233, 674 professional soldiers, 153, 569 professionals, 106, 182, 375, 542, 673 profits, 157, 168, 170-1, 174, 236, 246, 264, 290, 551

pronoiai, 171, 577, 581 property, 74, 77, 84, 105, 112, 129, 146, 164, 220, 298

intellectual, 545 landed, 90, 500 personal, 72, 247 private, 575, 621 rights, 105, 112

prophecies, 417, 429, 505, 507 prophets, 54, 190, 237, 342-3, 389, 405, 434, 504, 549

see also Muhammad

prose, 16, 193-4 prostitutes, 87, 199 male, 87

Protestant Christianity, 124 proto-global forces, 670-6 proto-globalization, 35, 665-84 proto-glocal forces, 676-81 proto-glocal tensions, 677-8 proto-glocalization, 35, 665, 668, 680 Provence, 281

Provins, 260, 272 Pseudo-Ptolemy, 353 Ptolemy, 5, 126, 343

Almagest, 347, 349

Geography, 5, 8

public spaces, 217, 221, 228, 406 public worship, 131, 133 publicity, 600, 602 punishments, 182, 184, 407, 433 Purcell, Nicholas, 59, 257, 276 Pure Land Buddhism, 470, 473 pururaucas, 645, 648

Puuc cities, 622, 628

pyramids, 653, 660

Pyrenees, 158-9

pythons, 593-4

qaghans, see khagans.

Qanun, 407-8

Qara Qorum, 537, 539, 551

Qarakhanids, 369-70, 377, 380, 673

Qarluks, 367

Qayrawan, 263

Qing, 221, 485, 510

Qipchaqs, 369, 554

Qu Geping, 66

quadrivium, 129, 339

Quanzhou, 235, 237, 305, 441, 526, 551

Qubilai, 13, 74, 84, 329, 372, 473, 475, 530, 532,

549-50

Quechua, 138, 655

queens, 187-8, 190, 197-8, 605

quipus, see khipus.

Quito, 650-1, 663

Quran, 71, 79, 132, 191, 298, 395, 400, 402,

430, 436

Quraysh, 405-6

Qus, 279, 299

Quseir al-Qadim, 299-300, 302

Rabban Sauma, 443-4

rabbis, 89, 130-1, 141

Rackham, Oliver, 63

Radhanite Jews, 237, 263, 276

rafts, 25, 291

Ragusa, 67, 269, 276

Ragusans, 270, 275

raiding, 147-9, 152, 163, 166, 245, 361-2,

369-70, 374, 564, 571

rainfall, 403-4, 594, 627

rainfed agriculture, 46, 48

combined with animal husbandry, 52-5 rakkad, 263

ranks, 29, 73, 94, 97, 165, 183-4, 186, 299, 569,

572

Rapondi, Dino, 260

Rashid al-Din, 12-15, 22, 27, 348, 543, 680

Ravenna, 180, 418, 566

Ravensburg, 261, 266, 283

raw materials, 30, 245, 268, 282, 524, 684 rebellions, 11, 151, 157, 366, 521, 575-6, 578, 657, 661

rebels, 108, 154, 159, 167, 199, 237, 661 reconquests, 562, 569, 571, 575

recruitment, 29, 121, 145, 316, 335, 354, 362, 525, 542, 579

rectangular sails, 268, 271

Red Sea, 238, 251, 263, 271, 275, 279, 299-300, 302, 551, 574

reformers, 124, 432, 527

agrarian, 52-3

statist, 499

reforms, 31, 191, 220, 337, 473, 497, 527, 541, 565, 604

Gregorian, 579

social, 109, 531

refugees, 489, 542

regents, 72, 184

regional elites, 164, 641

regional integration, 35, 667, 682

regional lords, 654, 656, 661-2

regional specialization, 236, 523

regional states, 70, 406, 502, 524 centralized, 33

regional trade networks, 24

relatives, 71, 259, 430, 527, 540

male, 24, 190

relic cult, 450, 475

relics, 198, 442, 450, 456, 460, 471, 473-5, 560 Buddhist, 455, 475

religions, 138-42, 355-6, 401-2, 421-2, 429-32, 504, 546, 549, 669-71

Axial Age, 208, 211

Buddhist, see Buddhism.

Christian, see Christianity.

Eurasia, 103-4

Inca, 648, 660, 682

Iranian, 208, 225

Islam, see Islam.

Judaism, see Judaism.

Muslim, see Islam.

new, 113, 132, 394, 400, 402, 433, 675 non-deistic, 208, 339 and science, 356

state, 141, 416, 631, 682

universal, 79, 501, 670

and women, 79-80

world, 32, 117, 140, 142, 207, 209-10, 386, 390-1, 546-7 religious affiliations, 30, 293, 303 religious authority, 138, 156, 504, 506 religious ceremonies, 137, 185, 198, 457 religious conversion, see conversion. religious cultures, 33, 483, 496, 503 religious customs, 103, 669 religious duties, 132, 156

religious ecumenes, 24, 26, 207

religious elites, 207, 217, 221

religious exchange, Mongol Empire, 546-50 religious hierarchies, 34, 103, 562 religious institutions, 103, 299, 329, 519, 532, 670, 683

religious knowledge, 28, 117, 134, 140-1, 678 religious law, 71, 86, 88, 130, 676 religious leaders, 156, 331

religious life, 130, 200, 421 religious narratives, 424 religious paraphernalia, 326, 447, 456, 465 religious-philosophical approach, 55-6 religious pluralism, 225, 499, 542 religious rituals, 47, 103, 422, 472-3 religious scholars, 395, 404, 548 religious specialists, 124, 646 religious traditions, 399, 407, 409, 547 religious unity, 560

rents, 33, 95, 98, 100, 105, 108, 129, 669 resettlements, 657-8 residential colleges, 122, 129 resilience, 46, 59, 61, 89, 500 resistance, 108, 156-7, 328, 370, 399-400, 402, 566, 570, 581

resource extraction, 490, 550

resources, 159, 161, 163, 387, 490-1, 539, 550-1, 641-2, 654

educational, 122, 124, 126 financial, 329, 563, 575, 580 fiscal, 398, 565 material, 362, 542

natural, 56, 62-4, 237, 252, 360, 606 restorations, 6, 119, 500, 520, 524, 532, 539, 570, 578 retail trade, 272 retainers, 182, 542, 647, 654 retinues, 287, 551 returning prisoners of war, 14, 680 revenues, 290, 295, 522, 524, 526, 528, 530, 551-2, 577

land, 262, 519

tax, 47, 122, 157, 167, 570

revolts, see rebellions.

rhetoric, 63, 129, 320, 322, 332

Rhineland, 196, 258

Rhodes, 276, 279

rice, 46, 197, 241, 314, 329, 595

Richards, John F., 59

rihla, 134, 141

rites, 182, 196-7, 546

ritual items, 23, 32, 476

rituals, 100, 103, 196-8, 201, 319, 321, 422, 515,

519

Buddhist, 472-3

court, 197, 395, 421

religious, 47, 103, 422, 472-3 rival popes, 180 rivalry, 88, 104, 270, 468, 497, 501-2, 524, 594,

651 roads, 27, 35, 235, 290, 443, 538, 540, 644,

648-50

Roger II of Sicily, 5, 195

Roman armies, 154, 158

Roman Empire, 126, 242, 416, 418, 433, 483,

487, 559-62

see also Byzantium.

Western, 152, 416

Roman law, 82-3, 158, 493

Roman traditions, 34, 180, 195, 562

Rome, 11, 15, 98, 153, 158, 180, 418-19, 560-3,

572

Rouen, 277 round ships, 268, 270-1 routes, 237-8, 269, 271-3, 276-9, 451, 589-90,

674

maritime, 30, 247, 250, 274, 277, 452, 455,

551-2, 674-5

Nordic, 277-9 overland, 135, 235, 237, 247, 250, 452, 525,

551-2, 674

spice, 274, 277, 279 royal clans, 182-3, 366 royal conversions, 547-9 royal courts, 182, 186, 188, 191, 195-6, 200, 551,

602 rudders, 250, 271, 675 rugs, 545, 679 rulers, local, 169-70, 303, 475, 502, 606 ruling classes, 95, 221, 253, 370, 374, 379, 547 ruling elites, 378, 520, 545 ruling powers and technological

innovations, 330-4 rural markets, 271-2 ruralization, 34, 561, 610, 618 Rus', 12, 224, 243, 369, 416, 419, 426, 440, 508 Russia, 22, 263, 276, 381, 469, 508, 554, 560 river system, 236, 247, 674

Russian principalities, 281-2, 365, 371, 535

sacraments, 418-19, 422, 435 sacred landscapes, 33, 477 sacred markers, 642, 645

Sacred Rock, 645-6, 657, 660 Sacred Valley, 642-3, 654, 657 sacrifices, 111, 579, 594 Sacsayhuaman, 647 Safavids, 171, 229, 484

Sahara, 20, 135-6, 394-5, 590-1, 595-8, 600,

602-4, 606 southern, 244, 589, 596 southwestern, 136, 607 trans-Saharan trade, 34, 245, 250, 586,

589-90, 595, 598, 600, 602, 607 western, 136, 394, 595, 606

Sahel, 170, 394-5, 589-90, 593-4, 596 sailors, 31, 169, 269, 271, 292 sails, 268, 270

lateen, 268, 270-1 rectangular, 268, 271

St Augustine, 57, 417, 419

St Benedict, 126

St Demetrius, 273, 574

Saint-Ives, 272

St Peter, 418

St Thomas Aquinas, 129

St Thomas the Apostle, 418

St Vitale, 418

saints, 32, 77, 79, 197-8, 422 Saladin, 17, 133, 162, 275 salaries, 132, 408, 562, 570 salinization, soil, 48 salt, 268, 270, 273, 277, 281, 287, 291, 524-5, 595 salt, Bourgneuf, 277, 281 salt trade, 266, 590, 603 salvation, 44, 155, 420, 433, 571

Samaipata, 659 Samanids, 370

Samarkand, 14, 26, 52, 242-3, 246,

248, 437

same sex relations, 87-8 Samguk sagi, 458 sandals, 595, 656-7 sangha, 124

Sanhaja, 590, 595-6, 602 Sanskrit, 125, 194, 215, 290, 292, 297-8, 345-6,

452, 458, 465

Sanskrit-based cultural world, 218, 228 Sasanians, 154-5, 163, 207, 213, 416, 419, 427-8,

484, 487

Saurashtra, 294-5

Saxon merchants, 258, 276 Sayf al-Dawla, 354, 571 scale models, 320, 323

Scandinavia, 89, 243, 276-7, 282 Scandinavians, 222, 243, 261, 276, 279

Scania, 277, 279, 281

Scarsella, 267 scholars, 126-7, 136, 194, 321-2, 347-9, 406-9, 457-8, 619-20, 623

Chinese, see literati.

European, 126, 142, 320, 322, 436 Jewish, 27, 347 Muslim, 4, 134, 377 religious, 395, 404, 548 scholasticism, 129, 350, 680 schools, 91, 116-17, 119-21, 132-3, 136-8, 225, 428, 448

cathedral, 126, 128-9, 131, 141, 350 Confucian, 121-2, 140 monastic, 117, 122-3, 126, 131

science, 195, 339, 341-3, 346, 348, 351, 353, 400, 409, 419

Arabic, 341, 353, 356 diffusion from one source or independent discoveries, 339-42 legends about diffusion, 342-4 methods of transmitting, 348-51 modern, 62, 340 natural, 128, 339, 344-5, 350, 353 politics of communicating, 351-3 and religion, 356 social, 210, 217, 228 transformation of, 356 transmission of, 31, 344, 355-6 with whom should it be shared, 353-5 scientific knowledge, 31, 342, 351, 432, 680 hubs, 344-8

scientists, 194, 343, 354, 544, 548 Scotland, 416 Scott, James C., 61 Scotto, Alberto, 259 scriptural exegesis, 124, 292 scriptures, 122, 124, 402, 409, 418, 438 sculptures, 109, 194, 323, 456, 458 sea routes, see maritime routes. sea trade, see maritime trade. seafaring communities, 30, 291, 306 seasons, 44, 193, 196, 269, 407, 552 seaworthiness, 250-1, 675 secretariats, 182, 515, 520, 522, 539 mobile, 539, 541, 673

security, 246, 272, 275, 277, 378, 424, 435, 550 sedentary countries, 360, 362-3, 369, 371, 376, 380

sedentary cultures, 50-1 sedentary populations, 363-4, 366, 369-70, 375, 379, 538, 596

sedentary societies, 33, 361, 364, 376, 380, 490 sedentary world, 360-1, 376, 491, 551 self-cultivation, 119 self-government, 222, 495 self-images, 29, 212

Seljuks, 164, 371, 373-5, 440

conquests, 373, 377

semen, 85 semi-deserts, 31, 360, 363

Semirechie, 367

Senegal River Valley, 590, 605 serfs, 95, 107

sermons, 299, 303 servants, 81-2, 94, 97, 110, 113, 188, 191, 303-4 settled communities, 428, 590

Seville, 276-7, 342, 351, 639 sewn boats, 291-2 sexual excess, 88 sexual pleasure, 85 sexual practices, 84-6, 89 sexuality, 28, 70, 80, 84-9, 422

Sharfa law, 71, 89-90, 676, 683

Shingon, 465, 473 ship-owners, 238, 262, 264, 290, 292, 297, 301 shipbuilding, 65, 291, 329, 522 shippers, 299, 301, 304

ships, 248, 250-1, 254, 257, 268-71, 297, 300, 302, 675

Chinese, 251, 293 crews, 160, 174, 251, 268 galley, 268-70, 282 round, 268, 270-1

treasure, 174, 251 shipyards, 251, 259, 328 shoemakers, 81, 296 shoes, 75, 78, 311 shops, 133, 272, 288, 298, 572 Shotoku, Prince, 461, 518 shrines, 181, 297, 420, 426, 476, 515, 648, 657,

660-1

Siberia, 510, 535, 540, 551

East, 377, 673

Sichuan, 241, 521, 525

Sicily, 5, 263, 271, 276, 281-3, 347, 349, 563, 566-7

sieges, 159, 161, 166, 172-3, 565, 583-4

Siena, 79, 426

Sii, 603

Sijilmasa, 590, 597

silk, 82, 147, 186, 251, 262, 281, 301, 329-30, 568, 572

Chinese, 239, 378

Mongolian, 274, 277

Spanish, 263

Silk Roads, 97-8, 235-6, 247-8, 250, 345, 348, 437-8, 673-4

Great, 366, 378

Silla, 119, 459, 464, 472, 517-18, 671, 677 silver, 239, 243-4, 267, 524-5, 552, 646, 648, 679

coins, 243, 290, 296 uncoined, 524, 552

Sindh, 288, 348, 389, 392, 396, 402-3, 485, 680

Sino-centric cartography, 2

sins, 85, 87, 223, 433, 515, 646

Siraf, 293

sisters, 74, 578, 598, 642, 662

skills, 136-8, 140, 189, 191, 193, 224, 316, 323, 329, 538-9

skins, 73, 236, 245, 263 slave-eunuch generals, 164 slave-markets, 163 slave-raiding, 29, 170 slave-soldiers, 164, 171

slave trade, 170, 258, 283, 303, 552 slavery, 21, 107, 283, 329 domestic, 28, 80, 83 and gender, 80-4

slaves, 81-3, 109-10, 174, 237, 243, 245, 303-4, 393, 594

domestic, 81-2, 84, 443 female, 81-3, 304-5, 602 freed, 304, 597

Indian, 82, 303

male, 81

manumission, 81, 83, 304

Slavs, 12, 82, 243, 273, 347, 513, 564, 570 small polities, 101, 625-6, 634, 669, 682 smallpox, 66 soap, 273, 283

social hierarchies, 28, 75, 98, 103, 109, 420, 531,

553

social interactions, 94, 217

social life, 488, 499, 530, 667, 678

social mobility, 101, 107, 118

social norms, 103, 545, 677, 683

social order, 88, 217, 223-4, 381, 406, 642-3

social power, 151, 314, 328, 496, 500

social reforms, 109, 531

social science, 210, 217, 228

social status, 116, 118, 120, 138, 326, 330, 604

social stratification, 15, 361, 404, 489 sociology, 210, 340, 668

sodomy, 86

Sogdians, 242, 366, 452, 520

Sogolon Conde, 598, 600

soil erosion, 45, 50, 58, 60, 614 soils, 45, 47-8, 53-4, 260, 336, 376, 622 barren, 54 heavy, 53, 55, 336 salinization, 48

soldiers, 149-50, 152-3, 157-8, 163-5, 167, 538,

547, 570-1

professional, 153, 569 slave-soldiers, 164, 171

solidarity, 28, 88, 568, 669 and hierarchies, 94-113 within polities in Eurasia, 101-3

Somnath, 288-9, 294, 297-8

Song, 118, 166-7, 213-14, 235-6, 312-14, 324-6, 354, 470-2, 499-500, 524-6, 530-1 court, 471, 528-9 new policies of Wang Anshi, 527-8 Northern, 65 prosperity and crisis under, 524-6 Southern, see Southern Song. Yingzao fashi, 324-6

Songdetsen

Tri, 466-7

Songhay, 34, 348, 487, 586, 592, 594, 600, 603-4, 606-7

Soninke, 586, 590, 592-7, 599

ancestors, 590, 593

sons, 90, 138, 189-90, 299-300, 304, 538, 576, 580-1, 599, 662

Sonyi, see Sii.

Sopara, 288, 294

Sorbonne, 129

Soso, 598-9, 606

soul, 85, 200, 353, 549

South Asia, 80, 122-3, 215, 447-8, 451, 454, 458, 460-5, 468

Buddhism and educational institutions,

122-3

South China, 217, 220, 246-7, 393, 514, 522-3, 539, 551

South China Sea, 241, 251, 474 southeastern Europe, 387, 392, 484 Southeast Asia, 125-6, 239-40, 250-1, 454-8,

462, 474-6, 501-3, 674, 677-8

Buddhism and educational institutions, 125-6

maritime, 454-5, 457-8, 474, 476 state formation and empire building, 501-4

Southern Han, 524

southern India, 108, 169-70, 240, 250, 305, 429, 451, 474, 548, 675

Southern Song, 119, 220, 235, 528, 530 localist turn, 528-30

Souyri, Pierre Franςois, 211

sovereigns, 200, 262, 502, 519, 560-1, 567, 572, 577-9, 584

universal, 250-1, 570 western, 568, 572, 578

sovereignty, 426, 495, 499, 683 imperial, 33, 508, 530

Spain, 77, 154, 157-8, 192, 283, 347, 396, 402-3, 406

Muslim, 26, 263, 346, 394, 396, 403, 676 southern, 590, 606

Spaniards, 347, 623, 639, 643 Spanish conquerors, 16, 487, 612 Spanish conquest, 613-14, 618, 620, 622, 625-6, 632-3

Spanish invaders, 111, 638, 649, 662

Spanish silk, 263

spears, 146, 156, 158, 162, 319 specialists, 132, 426, 545, 656, 673 religious, 124, 646

specialization, regional, 236, 523 spice routes, 274, 277, 279 spices, 239-41, 258, 262-4, 273, 281-4, 312, 378 spiritual leaders, 546

Sri Lanka, 5, 125, 239, 251, 450, 452, 464-5, 474-6, 672

Srivijaya, 240-1, 306, 463, 503 stability, 239, 525, 532, 561-2, 626 physical, 29, 201 political, 332, 670, 673 stagnation, 34, 68, 233, 610 Stamford, 272

standing armies, 83, 514, 520, 523, 526, 531 stars, 21, 353, 356, 645, 649

state formation, 33, 471, 486, 488-90, 493-5, 497-8, 501, 503-4

in China

Sui through Song, 513-32 and empire building, 483-510 Mesoamerica in Postclassic Period, 610-35 processes, 483, 494

state power, 122, 247, 332, 509, 522, 546, 588, 630

state religions, 141, 416, 631, 682 statecraft, 317, 477, 516-18, 531, 553

Confucian, 516, 530

Mongol, 553

Persian, 505, 507

statehood, 33, 369-70, 497, 502, 506, 509 nomadic, 364, 366

statist reformers, 499

status, 28, 30, 72, 74, 98-100, 117, 185-6, 670 high, 99, 101, 130, 545, 669, 677

social, 116, 118, 120, 138, 326, 330, 604 steppe-based states, 523-4, 526, 532 steppe nomads, 146, 161, 437, 516-17, 530 Steppe Road, 247-8, 250, 674, 676 steppes, 51-2, 145, 147, 364-5, 369, 371, 437, 537-8, 550-1, 553-5

eastern, 159, 513, 516

Eurasian, 31, 145, 360, 362-3, 365-7, 371-4, 380, 389

western, 390, 493, 537

Steps to an Ecology of the Mind, 47 stereotypes, 96, 112 stirrups, 159, 161, 514

stone, 16-17, 174, 194, 297, 320, 642, 645, 648-9 black, 289, 468

stone-throwing engines, 150 storehouses, 10, 656, 658 strategoi, 566-7, 569 strategy, 29, 145, 154, 162, 172, 191, 441, 488, 491, 493

stratification, social, 15, 361, 404, 489 stringed instruments, 193, 602 students, 118-19, 121-3, 127-9, 132-6, 138, 141, 353-4

styles

architectural, 601, 620, 642

art, 34, 416, 458, 619, 623-4, 633 Su Song, 324, 333 sub-Saharan Africa, 5, 25, 70-1, 109, 117, 142, 174, 267, 387

submission, 156, 159, 169, 361, 429, 516, 653 subordination of women, 71, 80, 676-7 subsidies, 361, 366, 370, 404

successions, 34, 189-90, 417, 498, 504, 562, 566, 602, 604-5

successor states, 365, 486, 490, 492, 541 successors, 133, 166, 180, 213, 218, 371-2, 379, 514, 516, 662

designated, 190, 662 Sudan, 378, 597

northern, 394

western, see western Sudan.

Sufism, 72, 132-3, 409, 432, 547 sugar, 238, 522, 597

Sui, 24, 33, 152, 208, 366, 513-14, 516, 518, 523 court, 461, 516, 518

Sui-Tang, 513-14, 516, 519, 530-1 reunification, 514-16

Sumatra, 32, 240-1, 251, 305, 448, 458, 467-8, 548

Sumerians, 48

Sun, 80, 140, 355, 638, 651, 655, 660

and Inca, 645-50, 660, 682

Sunjata, 586, 588, 598-600

Sunni Islam, 133, 374, 405 supplies, 81, 150, 157, 159, 233, 254, 274-5, 300, 594

food, 54, 162, 281, 614

suq, 272

surpluses, 258, 271, 298, 570-1, 611, 641 Susruta, 86, 346

sustainability, 28, 59, 62-4, 588 long-term, 589, 607

sustainable agricultural economy, 48-9 sustainable forestry, 62-3 sutras, 122, 124, 453

Jesus, 438

suyos, 638, 643-4, 648 suzerainty, 169, 506, 517 Sweden, 273, 282

Switzerland, 424, 497 swords, 86, 154, 156, 434, 594 symbiosis, 63-4, 489 symbols, 10, 45, 239, 339, 432, 460, 679 common, 34, 633

syntheses, 45, 52, 119, 129, 223, 492, 510 Syri, 258

Syria, 154, 156-7, 165, 248, 253, 267, 269, 415-16, 562-3

armies, 162, 564 northern, 248, 377, 436, 567, 575

Syria-Palestine, 274, 281

Syriac, 346, 417-18, 424, 427, 429, 432, 435, 438, 571

Syriac Orthodox Church, 427, 560

Syrians, 262, 343, 347, 436

system of empire, 665-7

Tabriz, 14, 348, 352, 552, 554

tactics, 29, 145, 156, 160-1, 165, 172, 319 Taghbac, 514-15

tagmata, 164, 569

Tahuantinsuyu, 639, 643, 650, 654-5, 657-9, 661-3

Tai, 125, 503

Taizong, 516, 520

Takrur, 586, 605

Talas River, 153, 371

Tale of Genji, 75, 193

Talmud, 130

tambos, 644, 658

Tamerlane, see Timur.

Tamil, inscriptions, 73, 305

Tana, 281, 302, 552

Tang, 119-20, 152-3, 157-8, 462-4, 499, 516, 518, 520-3, 677

Tang, (cont.)

court, 438, 462, 467, 520-1

decline, 519-21

early, 152, 521

late, 312, 523, 525 rulers, 118, 153, 465, 516, 518

Tangier, 543, 599

Tanguts, 371, 471, 554

Tantric Buddhism, 438, 464-5, 468-9

Tantric practices, 86, 464

Taoism, 339, 438

tapestries, 545, 679

Taqui Onqoy, 663

Tarascan Empire, 34, 628

Tarsus, 564, 571

Tashkent, 153, 242

tastes, 31, 192, 197, 312, 333, 444, 545, 549

Tatar dress, 545, 679

Tatars, 391, 544, 554

tax revenues, 47, 122, 157, 167, 570

taxes, 98,100, 275, 290, 296, 540, 550-2, 563-4, 568-9

administration, 561, 570, 575, 577 commercial, 522, 525, 540 direct, 522, 531

indirect, 522, 524-5, 531

poll, 429, 432

Taxila, 451-2

tea, 522, 524-5, 597

teachers, 122, 127, 130-2, 134-6, 141, 408, 419, 462, 650

technical expertise, 318, 323, 329, 333 technical instruction, 320, 322, 326 technical knowledge, 31, 317, 320, 337 technological change, 312, 328, 332, 335-6 technological developments, 311-13, 318, 320, 337, 592

technological exchange, 328-9 technological innovations, and ruling powers, 330-4

technological knowledge, 312, 315, 337, 672, 680

technologies, 30-2, 35, 171, 174, 671, 673, 680,

682

building, 313, 328 discourses of technology, 318-20 and environmental factors, 334-6 and innovation, 309-37 maritime, 250, 675

new, 112, 253, 680, 683

scholarship on, 310-13

telpochcaUi, 138

temple-pyramids, 620, 631, 682

temples, 97, 99, 103-4, 123, 138, 140, 288-90, 294-5, 651, 654

Buddhist, 121, 124, 181, 306, 455, 460 temporality, 206, 209 temptations, 79, 113, 185 Tenayuca, 621, 628 Tendai school, 473 Tengri, 537, 546-7 tenno, 518-19

Tenochtitlan, 138, 613, 621-2, 630-2 Teotenango, 618

Teotihuacan, 610, 615-19, 626-8, 630-1, 633, 682

terrace farming, 47, 49-50 terracing, 110-11, 621 Texcoco, 622 textiles, 75, 78, 241, 245, 259, 282, 301, 311, 524, 597

Thailand, 452, 457, 474-5

Gulf of, 251 thematic armies, 571-2 Theodore I Lascaris, 579 Theodore II Lascaris, 579 theology, 104, 128-9, 132, 194, 345, 428, 543 Theophanes the Confessor, 11 Theophilus of Edessa, 432 Theotokos, 416, 418, 428, 444 Theravada Buddhism, 125, 475, 486, 504, 672 Thessalonica, 273, 574, 581-3 Thirsk, Joan, 53 Thomas the Apostle, St., 418 Thourout, 272 Thrace, 281, 421, 565 three-field system, 45, 52 three-realms model, 46 Tiahuanaco, 487, 640-1, 645, 649, 654, 663 Tibet, 5, 13, 100, 122, 348, 355, 465-9, 531, 534, 540

Tibetan Buddhism, 469, 473, 546, 549-50 Tibetan Empire, 98, 467, 488, 499 Tigris, 346, 403, 428

Tikal, 60 timber, 55, 63, 524 Timbuktu, 136-7, 348, 596, 598, 600-4, 607 chronicles, 603-4

‘ulama, 137

Timur, 24, 52, 247, 372, 493, 535, 582 tin, 275, 277, 282, 302

Titicaca, Lake, 638, 640, 645, 653, 657-8, 660 titles, 184-6, 405, 408, 562, 567, 570, 577, 579, 645

Toghrul, 374 Tokharistan, 345

Tokugawa regime, 222, 485

Toledo, 12, 343, 347, 352, 418 toleration, 225, 430, 440 tolls, 98, 100, 669

Toltecs, 619-20 Tomebamba, 651 tones, 193, 432, 604 tools, 31, 302, 311, 321, 336, 543, 626

iron, 34, 595

Torah, 130-1, 346

Totman, Conrad, 63

Tours, 158, 282, 368, 418

Toynbee, Arnold, 60 trace Italienne fortresses, 174 trade, see commerce.

trade mediation, 361 trade networks, 24-5, 283, 288, 290, 294,

451-2, 671, 675-6

European and Mediterranean,

257-84

expansion, 35, 671 regional, 24

trans-regional, 207, 676 traders, see merchants. trading centers, 34, 258, 299, 590, 603

on Red Sea, 299-305 trading communities, 287, 451

local, 287, 290-9, 451 trading partners, 273

across Indian Ocean, 287-306 traditions, 117, 189-92, 214, 333-4, 355, 399,

408, 469

Byzantine, 195, 271

court, 35, 179-80

Hindu, 215, 680

literary, 32, 199, 411, 519 local, 410, 430, 444, 671, 678-9

oral, 34, 137, 587, 592, 598-9, 603 religious, 399, 407, 409, 547

Roman, 34, 180, 195, 562 training, 122, 126, 130-1, 137, 140-1, 217, 224, 362-3

military, 138, 149, 362 trans-regional reorientations, 206-29

age of, 225-9

Axial legacies, 207-8 conditions and causes, 216-18 and contexts of change, 213-16 and cultural crystallizations, 208-12 diverging patterns and pathways of transformation, 218-25 trans-Saharan trade, 34, 245, 250, 586, 589-90,

595, 598, 600, 602, 607

Transcaucasia, 243, 371, 374 transit trade, 236, 239, 244, 390 translations, 26-7, 96, 343, 345, 347, 349-51, 356, 453, 680 translators, 21, 356, 472 transmission

of knowledge, 26, 28, 117, 134, 329, 354

of learning, 116, 135, 141-2, 678 oral, 31, 306

processes, 310, 328-30, 681 of science and philosophy, 339-56 Transoxania, 157, 164, 247, 389, 396, 401, 403, 440

transport, 242, 244-5, 268, 270, 291, 293, 313, 318, 324

trans-shipment, 240, 279 travelers, 8, 14, 84, 137, 440, 680, 683 travelogues, 442-3

treasure, 155, 160, 277, 595, 653 treasure fleets, 169, 250 treasure ships, 174, 251 treasuries, 152, 184, 188, 354, 561 treaties, 274-5, 303, 429, 525, 574 treatises, 99, 104, 106, 321, 409, 569 Trebizond, 74, 273, 276-7, 565, 580, 583 trees, 22, 44, 50, 60, 444, 593 Tri Songdetsen, 466-7 tribal cavalry, 153 tribal groupings, 489-90, 507 tribes, 110, 145, 332, 366, 402, 404, 406, 489-90, 538

Arab, 394, 400, 402, 405

nomadic, 366, 437, 471, 476 tributary states, 162, 596 tribute, 101, 110-11, 166, 169, 236, 365-6, 368, 370, 656 tribute trade, 235, 250 Tripoli, 2, 271, 274, 301, 597 Troyes, 260, 272 Tuareg, 136, 602

Tula, 616, 619-20, 623, 628, 631

Tunis, 271, 421, 599 Tunisia, 263, 301, 396, 401

west of, 402-3

Tupa Yupanqui, 646-7, 650, 653, 657, 659-62 Turco-Mongols, 375, 469

Turkestan, 3, 539-40, 542

eastern, 367, 371

western, 489

Turkic Empire, 486, 490

Turkic khaqanates, 365-6 Turkic languages, 31, 368, 377-8, 673 Turkic nomads, 367-9, 371, 373-4, 377

Turkic origins, 366, 499, 507

Turks, 242, 365, 367, 375, 391, 400, 537, 559, 576

Islamic civilization, 391-3

Tuscany, 266, 347

tutors, 128, 346

Tyre, 84, 130

Tzetzes, 574

Uighurs, 13, 242, 367, 489, 491, 537, 542, 550-1,

554

ulama, 132, 141, 380

Timbuktu, 137

Umayyads, 100, 157-8, 162, 166, 200, 402, 411, 430, 565

Unani medicine, 355, 680

unbelievers, 156, 406, 507

unity, 101, 168, 237, 354, 385, 406, 594, 678 political, 101, 237, 442, 669 religious, 560

universal religions, 79, 501, 670

universities, 79, 116, 126-9, 142, 223,

350

Buddhist, 122

and Christianity, 126-9

European, 117, 126-9, 135, 141, 223, 350 unwritten customary law, 104, 669 upper Cuzco, 642, 647

Upper Niger, 586, 597-8, 607

urban centers, 451-2, 468, 587-8, 606, 618-19,

623, 625 see also cities

urban civilizations, 361, 611

urban elites, 133, 160, 222, 226, 604

urban growth, 281, 450, 499, 522

urban life, 216, 377, 450

urban markets, 271-2

urban planning, 318, 631, 649

urban population, 259, 361, 614, 631

urban societies, 103, 361, 489, 616, 622 urbanization, 253, 316, 334-5, 452, 592, 616,

624, 630, 666

usurpation, 190, 515, 520, 651 usurpers, 500, 578, 600 Uyghurs, see Uighurs.

Vadrapalli, 295

Vajrabodhi, 462, 464-6

Valabhi, 288, 294-5

Valarapattanam, 302

Valencia, 81, 260, 269, 276, 281, 283

Vandals, 153, 427

vaniggrama, 295

vassalage, 95, 369

ceremony, 198

vassals, 95, 146, 186, 191, 198, 365, 367, 371

Veckinchusen brothers, 261

Vedas, 122

Venetians, 258, 274, 282, 443, 578, 583

Venice, 268-9, 271, 273-4, 276, 279-83, 347, 574, 578

vernaculars, 22, 196, 215, 224, 378, 400, 422,

519

Vienna, 171, 261

Vietnam, 3, 117-18, 167, 251, 470, 476, 501, 503, 517, 531

Confucianism and educational

institutions, 121

viharas, 350

Vijayabahu I, 474

Vijayangaran empire, 169

Vikramasila Monastery, 467-9 village communities, 531, 587, 654 villages, 95, 100, 105-6, 424, 431, 434, 587, 590, 641, 647

Vinaque, 640

violence, 190, 200, 224, 431, 493, 520, 539, 581

Viracocha, 644, 647, 650

virginity, 85-7

virgins, 87, 140, 356, 438, 594

Visby, 261, 274

Visnusena, charter of, 295-6 visual representations, 319-20, 549

Vitale, St., 418

Vivas de Provenςals, 260

viziers, 12-13, 133, 187, 348

Volga, 277, 385, 389-91, 548

Volga, Middle, 243, 368, 377, 673

Volga Bulgaria, 365, 371 voyages of discovery, 313, 317, 341

Wagadu/Ghana, 34, 586, 590-7, 600, 605-7 Walata, 136, 596, 600-2

wall painting, 196, 444 walled cities, 162, 166, 623

Wang Anshi, 527-9, 531

Wang Dayuan, 15, 680 waqf, 133, 137, 298 warhorses, 245, 524 warehouses, 262, 300 warfare, 80-1, 138, 145-74, 269-70, 315, 651-2

Africa

Atlantic and slave trade, 170-1

Arab explosion, 155-8

China, 152-3

Europe's military revolutions, 171-4 Franks, 158-62

horsemen, footmen, and empires, 149-71

Mamluks and Mongols, 162-6

Persia and Byzantium, 153-5 steppes and agro urban empires,

145-9

Wari see Huari (Wari) warriors, 52, 120, 137, 140, 158-9, 163-4, 167, 303, 362

mounted, 65, 363 nomadic, 363, 564

women, 89

water, 44, 48, 61, 66, 311, 316, 333, 335, 593-4 management, 47, 318 mills, 67, 315 shortages, 335-6

water-lifting devices, 314, 321

waterways, 271, 303, 331

navigable, 245, 522

Watson, Andrew M., 48

wax, 243, 277

way stations, 35, 644, 658

wealth, 77, 83, 89-91, 97, 151, 164-5, 174, 295,

531

weapons, 34, 149, 167, 170, 172, 174, 243, 259, 270, 282; see also individual weapon types

weavers, 275, 296, 305, 656

weaving, 140, 314-15, 317, 321, 650

Weber, Max, 44, 53, 100, 210

Weberian bureaucracy, 111

Wei, Northern, see Northern Wei.

West Africa, 135-6, 244-5, 394-5, 487, 587-8, 590-2, 597-8

West Asia, 11, 166, 424, 435, 443, 492, 670

West Bengal, 458

Western astronomy, 349, 355

Western Christendom, 26, 214-15, 219, 223-4, 494-8, 501-2, 507, 510 state formation and empire building, 494-8

Western courts, 188, 190, 195, 200 western Europe, 26, 160-1, 179-80, 182, 214-15, 220, 222, 226

Western Sudan, 34, 586, 589, 595, 599, 601, 603, 606-7

cities and trade as a basis of state power, 588-90

early polities, 586-607

Gao, 34, 136, 348, 586, 596, 600, 602-5, 607 importance of oral tradition for West African history, 587-8

Mali Empire, 34, 586, 590, 597-602, 604, 606-7

Wagadu/Ghana, 34, 586, 590-7, 600, 605-7 wet-rice agriculture, 49-50, 518, 525 wheat, 46, 48, 66, 253, 262, 272-4 wheel-turning king, 530, 532 White, Lynn, Jr., 54, 56-7 White Horse Monastery, 453 widows, 75, 77-8, 656, 677 Wilhelmy, Herbert, 60

William of Rubruck, 21, 73, 424, 441, 444 William of Tyre, 12

William I of Sicily, 349 Winchester, 78, 272

wine, 242-3, 260, 268, 273-4, 277, 281, 296, 436 Bordeaux, 281

maize, 647

Wink, Andre, 288 wisdom, 339, 343-4, 354, 356 Wittfogel, Karl August, 47 wives, 71-2, 74, 84, 87, 192, 676 women, 70-80, 83-6, 88-9, 131, 134, 183-4, 188-9, 676-7

Central and East Asia, 73-6

Europe, 76-9

Islamic world and South Asia, 71-3 Jewish, 78, 89, 131

Kashmir, 73 mystics, 79 and religion, 79-80 sequestration, 71, 79, 89 single, 73, 77 subordination, 71, 80, 676-7 women warriors, 89 wood, 17, 60, 65, 162, 174, 237, 262, 275, 277, 282

woodblock printing, 14, 26, 124, 314 wool, 260, 262, 266, 268, 272, 275, 277, 282 Wool Staple of Calais, 262, 275, 277 woolen cloth, 259, 262, 266, 272-3, 282-3 world domination, 494, 510 world maps, 1-2, 5-10, 14, 680 world religions, 32, 117, 140, 142, 207, 209-10, 386, 390-1, 546-7

worship, 132, 419, 432, 440, 442, 546, 643 Christian, 428, 432

collective, 32, 424 public, 131, 133

writing, 111, 132, 136-7, 320-1, 326, 349, 519, 538-9, 612, 633-4 written histories, 10-15, 613

Wu, Emperor, 153, 455, 460 Wu Zetian, Empress, 153, 520

Wu Zhao, 519

Wutai, Mount, 465-7 Wuzong, Emperor, 470

Xenophon, 59

Xia, 524-6 Xiaowen, 514-15 xingsheng, see mobile secretariats. Xixia, 471, 523

Xochicalco, 618-19, 633 Xuanzang, 14, 462, 468 Xuanzong, 520-1

Yamato, 517-18 yanacona, 654 Yang Jian, 513-16

Yangdi, Emperor, 516, 518 Yangzi, 514, 522

Delta, 516, 522, 528, 530 Yanshu, 11 al-Ya‘qubi, 595 Yaqut, 596 yasa, 408, 492, 538 Yehlu Ch'uts'ai, 379 Yellow River, 65

Yemen, 135, 264, 300-2, 304, 404,

427, 543 yeshivas, 130-1, 141 Yi Xing, 352-3

Yijing, 462-4

Yingzao fashi, 324-6

Ypres, 262, 272

Yuan, 74-5, 119, 213-14, 249-50, 534-5, 539-40, 542-5, 551-4

rulers, 75, 119

Yucatan, 60, 615, 620, 622-3, 627

Yunnan, 241, 312, 468, 548

Zaccaria, Benedetto, 259

Zanj, 12, 108, 303

Zhang Zhongyan, 324

Zhao Kuangyin, 524-5

Zheng He, 4, 169-70, 250, 475

Zhong Gongfu, 49

Zhou, 319, 520

Zhou, Northern, 524

Zhou Daguan, 16

Zhu Xi, 119, 529

Zhu Yuanzhang, 168, 323

Zimbabwe, 60, 110, 548

Great, 60, 109

Zoroastrianism, 208, 219, 225, 293, 345, 401, 416, 546, 665

Zuwa, 604-5

11 * 3 See Smith and von Glahn, Song-Yuan-Ming Transition, and also Paul Jakov Smith,

‘Eurasian Transformations of the Tenth to Thirteenth Centuries: The View from Song China, 960-1279', in Arnason and Wittrock, Eurasian Transformations, 279-308.

1 4 Peter K. Bol, ‘Examinations and Orthodoxies: 1070 and 1313 Compared', in Theodore Huters, R. Bin Wong and Pauline Yu (eds.), Culture and State in Chinese History: Conventions, Accommodations, and Critiques (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1987): 29-57; Peter K. Bol, Neo-Confucianism in History (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center and Harvard University Press, 2008).

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