This Fleeting World

108 Index
E
Easter Island, 38
Economic development. See also
Industrialization (Industrial
Revolution); Trade
commercial societies, rise of, 66
consumerism, 80–81, 88–90
contemporary world, 83–90
rich and poor, gap between, 63,
88–89
Education, mass, 72, 73, 86
Egypt, 34, 61. See also Nile Valley
Electronic mass communication, 83,
86–88
Elites, development of, 36–38, 42. See
also Wealth
Empire
agrarian era, 47–55
global imperialism, 71–74, 79, 84
Energy resources, 60–61, 68, 69–70
English language, 68
Environmental issues, 18–20, 89–90.
See also Climate change
Epidemic diseases. See Diseases
Eurasia, 20, 51, 53, 55–57. See also
Afro-Eurasia
Europe. See also Afro-Eurasia; Eurasia;
specific countries
agricultural societies, 53–57
consumerism, 83
democracy, 72
extinctions, 19
global trade, 54–57, 67–68
imperialism, 71–74, 79, 84
Industrial Revolution, 69–71
women’s wages, 64
World War I, 74–76
World War II, 78–79
European Union, 67
Extinctions, 18–19
F
Fascism, 76, 77
Fertile Crescent, 25–26. See also
Mesopotamia (southwest Asia)
Fire-stick farming, 19–20
Foragers, era of, 1–22, 60
affluent foragers, 13, 20–21, 27–29
agrarian communities, relations
with, 37
beginnings of human history, 5–9
key events, 2
lifeways, foraging, 9–13
major changes during era, 13–22
study of era, 1–4
transition to horticulture, 29–30
world history, era in, 22
Ford, Henry, 80
France, 61, 72, 75
Franz Ferdinand, archduke of Austria,
75
Freud, Sigmund, 81
G
Gandhi, Mohandas, 79
Gardens of Eden, 28–29
Gargarin, Yuri, 84
Gender issues. See Women
Genealogies and leadership, 41
Genetic studies of early human
history, 4–5
Germany, 70–71, 75, 76, 78–79
Global climate patterns, changes in.
See Climate change
Global imperialism, 71–74, 79, 84
Globalization, 53–57, 66–67, 86–88
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 85
Great Depression, 76, 80–81
Great Leap Forward, 85
Gross domestic product (GDP), 66,
74, 83
Africa, 63
agrarian era, 53