INDEX
Accadémia dei Lincei, 179, 181, 205
Accadémia del Cimento, 183», 205
Adams, John Quincy, 430»
Africa:
agriculture in, 15, 500-506
cannibalism in, 104
colonialism in, 428, 431-33
gold deposits in, 73-74
population of, 500, 501
postcolonialism in, 499-507
public health measures in, 12-13
slaves from, 117-19, 122-24
see also individual countries
agriculture, 25
development of, 40-42
plantation, 68-70, 114, 115, 116-17, 119-24
precipitation and, 13-14
productivity of, 41, 43
slash-and-burn, 26
AIDS, 12, 170», 184, 501
Ajami, Fouad, 413
Ajvanhu (Rychten), 61 «-62»
Alcock, Michael, 279, 287
Alder, Ken, 303«
Alderman Cockayne's Project, 448
Alexander the Great, 32
Algeria, 10-11, 414-15, 428, 432, 440-41,
507-10
Ali, Muhammad, 331, 400, 403-8, 491
Alvares Cabrai, Pedro, 89
Amboina, 127, 146^7
American system of manufactures, 301-4, 449
Amsterdam, 140, 145
Antwerp, 138, 139, 247
Aral Sea, 497
Argentina, 295, 315-28
agriculture in, 316, 320-21, 323, 325, 326
Catholicism in, 317, 324
cattle ranching in, 316, 318, 323-24
economy of, 323, 325
exports of, 294, 323
finance in, 325-26, 328
gross domestic product (GDP) of, 325
immigration to, 317-18, 320-21, 324, 326,
328
Indian population of, 316, 318, 323, 324
industrialization of, 316-17, 326-28
isolationism of, 317-18, 324, 326, 328
labor supply of, 323-24, 326, 327
land policies of, 317-18, 324
political instability of, 324, 327
population of, 328
aristocracy, 260-61, 268, 296, 299, 377, 395
Aristotle, 202
Arkwright, Thomas, 192, 299-300
Armada, Spanish, 150, 443