This Fleeting World

Index 109
Industrial Revolution and, 70–71
United States, 63, 70–71
H
Han dynasty, 47
Han Wudi, 47
Hierarchies of power, 36–38, 40–41,
62–63
Hiroshima, 78–79
Hitler, Adolf, 76
HIV, 54, 89
Holocaust, 79
Homo ergaster, 5, 9, 14
Homo sapiens, 9
Horticultural societies, 37–38
I
Ice ages, 17, 28–30
Imperialism. See Empire
Inca empire, 44, 54
India, 50
agrarian era, 46
cities in, 61
economic development, 90
independence, 79
Industrial Revolution and, 71, 74
irrigation, 34
religion in, 49
World War I, 75
Indigenous peoples, destruction of
lifeways of, 64
Indus River Valley, 43
Industrialization (Industrial
Revolution), 68–74, 79–80,
83–89
cultural impact of, 72–74, 88–89
environmental strains caused by,
89–90
waves of, 69–70
Innovation. See Technology
Interwar years (1918–1939), 76–78
Iran, 61
Irrigation, 33–35, 38, 47
Italy, 76
J
Japan, 70, 71, 73
consumerism, 83, 84
World War I, 75, 79
World War II, 78
Joyce, James, 82
K
Keynes, John Maynard, 80
Kinship, 10–12
L
Language, 8, 68
Latin America. See South America
Lattan, 39
Leaders/leadership, 41. See also
Power, hierarchies of
League of Nation, 76
Lenin, Vladimir Ilich, 77
Libby, Willard, 4
Livi-Bacci, Massimo, 15
M
Maddison, Angus, 60, 63
Maize, 31, 56, 66
Malthus, Thomas, 35, 80
Mao Tse-tung, 79, 85–86
Marshall Plan, 83
Marxism, 76–78, 85
Mass consumerism, 80–81, 88–90
Mass media, 82, 83, 86–88
Mass production, 79–80
Mauryan empire, 47
Maya, 44, 50–51
Megafaunal extinctions, 18–19
Mesoamerica, 26–28, 31, 36, 41–44,
50–51