This Fleeting World

110 Index
Mesopotamia (southwest Asia)
affluent foragers, 20
cities/states, early, 42–43
early agriculture, 25–29, 31
as imperial state, 45, 47
irrigation, 34
population decline, 47
secondary-products revolution, 33
Mexico. See Maya; Mesoamerica
Migrations, foraging era, 14–18, 29
Military, 65, 68
creation of, 42, 44–45
democracies and, 72
increased power of, 62–63
Soviet Union, 77
World War I, 74–76
World War II, 77–79
Ming empire, 54
Moa, 19
Moche kingdom, 44, 51
Modern era, 58–92
contemporary period, 83–90
explanation of, 64–68
major features and trends, 59–64
twentieth century crisis, 1914–1945,
74–82
world history, era in, 91–92
Mongol empire, 53–54
Monumental structures, 42, 45
Mussolini, Benito, 76
N
Nagasaki, 78–79
Nationalism, 62–63
Nazi Germany, 76
New Deal, 81
New Guinea, 26, 27, 34, 46
New Zealand, 19, 51
Nile Valley, 20, 25, 42–43
North America. See also specific
countries
agrarian communities, early, 37
agriculture, early, 23, 27, 33, 34
cities/states, early, 42–43
empires, early, 51–52
European exploitation of, 68
extinctions, 18–19
Industrial Revolution, 70–71
migrations from Africa to, 17
slave trade, 67
World War I, 75
Nuclear weapons, 78–79
O
Oceania. See Pacific islands
Ottoman Empire, 71
Out-of-Africa hypothesis, 5–6
P
Pacific islands
agrarian era, 23, 27, 34, 37–39, 42,
46, 51
World War I, 75
World War II, 78
Pakistan, 43
Papua, New Guinea. See New Guinea
Pastoralism, 23, 33–34, 37, 46
Patriarchy, 40
Payo, 39
Peru. See Inca empire
Phillippines, 39
Picasso, Pablo, 82
Poland, 78
Population
agrarian era, 30–32, 35–36, 42,
46–47, 53
cities and, 42, 61–62
doubling time, 15
foragers, era of, 10, 15, 29–30
modern era, 58–62, 86, 90
Poverty, 63, 88–89
Power, hierarchies of, 36–38, 40–41,
62–63
Prehistorians, 2
Printing, 68