347
Li Zicheng 127
life expectancy 269, 336
Lincoln, Abraham 13, 207, 244, 245
Lindisfarne 94–5
Linear A script 42, 43
Little Bighorn, Battle of 249
Liu Bang 57
living standards 257, 269, 333
Locke, John 195
Lombards 76, 77
Long March 304–5, 317
Louis XIV of France 190 , 196, 198–9, 210–11
Louis XVI of France 206, 210–12
Louis-Philippe of France 228
Louis the Pious 83
Louisiana Purchase 206
Loyola, Ignatius 163, 187
Lucknow, Siege of 242
Lucretius 64
Lumumba, Patrice 301, 307
Luther, Martin 160–3
Lvov, Prince Georgi Y 278M
Maccartney, Lord 254
Machiavelli, Nicolò 157
US Maddox 313
Madero, Francisco 265
Magellan, Ferdinand 144, 151
Magna Carta 15, 100 –1
Magyars 69, 74, 132
Mahdists 265
al-Majusi, Ali ibn al-Abbas (Haly Abbas) 92
Malcolm X 311
Mamelukes 93, 138, 139
mammoths 28, 29
al-Mamun, Caliph 89
man, early 18–27
Manchu invasion 122, 126, 127, 186–7
Manco Capac 116
Mandate of Heaven 70
Mandela, Nelson 325
Manhattan Project 308
Mansa Musa 110 –11
Al-Mansur, Caliph 88, 89, 90
Manzikert, Battle of 106, 139
Mao Zedong 57, 304, 313, 316–17
Maragha 88, 91
Marathon, Battle of 45
Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France 212
Marius 60
Mark Anthony 64
Marx, Karl/Marxism 14, 229, 234, 268
Mary II, Queen of England 175
mathematics 90–1
Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor 167immigration 249, 250–1
Inca Empire 75, 114, 116 –17, 148, 150
independence movements 216–19, 268–9,
298–301, 306–7
Indian independence and partition 298–301
Indian Mutiny 242
Indian National Congress 298, 299, 300
Indus Valley civilizations 36, 70
Industrial Revolution 220–5, 229, 339
industrialization 202, 224–5, 243, 251, 253, 257,
281, 297
inequality 34, 269, 330, 333
internal-combustion engines 222
International Monetary Fund (IMF) 332
Internet 329
Investiture Controversy 96–7
Iranian Revolution 320 , 341
Iran–Iraq War 320
Iraq, invasion of 320 –1, 341
Iron Age 34
Isaac II Angelos, Emperor 139
Isabella I of Castile 128, 129, 144, 146–7, 149
Isandiwana, Battle of 264
Islam, rise of 74, 78–81, 132
Islamic scholarship 74, 75, 88–93
Islamic State (IS/ISIS/ISIL) 321, 327
Ismail I, Shah 198
Israel, establishment of 302–3
Italian Wars 156
Itzcoatl 115, 116
Ivan the Terrible, Tsar 196
Iwo-Jima, Battle of 293J
Jacobins 212
Jacobites 199
Jahangir, Emperor 171
James I of England 175, 176
James II of England 101, 175
Jamestown, Virginia 172, 173
Janissaries 140–1
Jayavarman VII, King 108
Jefferson, Thomas 206–7
Jerusalem, fall of 106–7
Jews 118, 119, 128, 129, 241, 285, 288, 292, 294–5, 303
Jiang Ziya 70
Jibril ibn Bukhtishu 89
Jin dynasty 71
Jinnah, Mohammed Ali 300
Joan of Arc 133
João VI of Portugal 217
John, King 100–1
John II of Portugal 146, 149
Johnson, Lyndon B 313
José I of Spain 218
Judah 70Junkau, Battle of 169
Jurjis ibn Jibril ibn Bukhtishu 89
Justinian, Emperor 76–7K
Kangxi, Emperor 186–7
Kansas-Nebraska Act 244, 245
Kant Immanuel 192
Kapur Singh, Nawab 264
Kennedy, John F. 308, 309, 315
Kepler, Johannes 188
Kerensky, Alexander 278
Khartoum, Siege of 265
Khmer Empire 108–9
Khmer Rouge 313
Khomeni, Ayatollah 320 , 327, 341
Khrushchev, Nikita 308, 309
Khufu 38
Khusrau, Shah 58
Al-Khwarizmi 88, 91
King, Martin Luther Jr. 13, 15, 301, 311
Kitchener, Lord Horatio 265
Knights Templar 106, 107
Knossos, Palace at 42–3
Korea, japanese invasion of 199
Korean War 297
Kornilov, General Lavr 278
Kosovo 326
Kronstadt naval rebellion 279
Kublai Khan 102–3, 104, 105, 109, 122, 133
Kuomintang 305L
Langton, Stephen, Archbishop of Canterbury 101
Last Glacial Maximum 21, 26, 27, 28–9
Lausanne, Treaty of 260, 261
Law Code of Hammurabi 36–7
League of Nations 275, 280
Lee, Richard Henry 205
Lee, General Robert E. 244, 245, 246, 247
Lefèvre d’Étaples, Jacques 161
Lehman Brothers 331
Leipzig, Battle of 215
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich 276–9, 277, 281, 296, 297
Leo III, Pope 82, 83
Leo IX, Pope 96, 132
Leo X, Pope 160, 162
Leonardo da Vinci 152, 153
Leonidas of Sparta 44, 45
Leopold II of Belgium 258, 259
Lepanto, Battle of 141
Lepidus 64
Lesseps, Ferdinand de 233
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