Sandys, George, 2.1, 2.2
   San Francisco Javier
   Sangley Point
   San José (Chile)
   San Lorenzo de los Negros
   San Miguel de Gauldape
   Santa María
   Santa María la Antigua del Darién, 9.1, 9.2
   Santana, Christian de Jesus
   Santarém, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
   Santería
   Santiago (Chile)
   Santo Antônio (Brazil), 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
   Santo Domingo, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2
   Santos, Roberto
   São Paulo
   São Tomé (St. Thomas) and Príncipe, 8.1, 8.2
   Saramaka (maroon group)
   Sarmiento de Gamboa, Pedro
   Savannah River
   Saxony
   scale insects, 1.1, 1.2, 10.1
   Scandinavia
   Scholtz, Waldemar
   Scholtz & Co.
   Schumpeter, Joseph
   Schweninger, Loren
   Scotland, 3.1, 3.2
   Scott, James
   scurvy
   secondary pests
   seigneury
   Seminole (Indian group), 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
   maroon alliance with
   slaves of
   wars of, 9.1, 10.1
   Senegal
   Sephardic Jews
   Serra da Barriga, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5
   Sessions, Scott, 3.1, 3.2
   Seven Cities of Gold
   Seven Years’ War
   Seville, 7.1, 9.1
   sexual reproduction
   Shaanxi (China), 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4
   shack people (pengmin), 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 10.1
   see also Hakka
   Shao Pian
   Shapiro, Judith
   sharecroppers
   sheep, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1
   Shelley, Percy Bysshe
   Shi, Weiyi, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
   shigellosis
   shrimp, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
   Sichuan (China), 5.1, 5.2
   Sicily
   sickle-cell anemia
   “Sickness, Starvation, and Death in Early Hispaniola”
   Sierra Leone
   Siete Partidas, 8.1, 8.2
   silicosis
   silk, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 5.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1
   import quotas on, 4.1, 4.2
   Silk Road
   silkworms, 2.1, 4.1
   silt grains
   silver, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 6.1, 6.2, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 9.6
   China and, 1.1, 1.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.1
   production of, 1.1, 4.1
   shipping of
   smuggling of, 1.1, 4.1, 4.2
   see also galleon trade
   silver fox
   silver pesos, 4.1, 4.2
   Silvio O. Conte National Center for Polymer Research
   Sinbad the Sailor
   Singapore
   Sir Francis Drake Revived (Nichols)
   Slack, Edward R., 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
   slash-and-burn
   slash pine
   slaves, slavery, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 8.7, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
   African-Indian alliances and
   in Africa vs. Europe
   Asian
   chattel, 3.1, 9.1
   cheap land as inducement to
   cost of, 3.1, 10.1
   death rates
   encomienda system and, 8.1
   exchange of guns for
   as foundational institution
   fugitive, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5
   fugitive communities of, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
   galley
   as hard to control, 8.1, 9.1
   Iberian
   among Indian societies
   indigenous, 3.1, 3.2, 8.1
   inherent problems with
   of Indians
   on Madeira
   malaria and
   malaria immunity and, 3.1, 9.1, 10.1
   Malay
   military background of, 9.1, 9.2
   North-South divide and
   opposition to
   in Peru, 6.1, 6.2
   plantation agriculture and
   on plantations, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4
   reasons for
   revolts of, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2
   treatment of, 3.1, 9.1
   see also maroons
   slave trade, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 9.6, 10.1
   African demand as important to
   beginning of
   size of
   smallpox, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 5.1, 5.2, 8.1, 8.2
   Smil, Vaclav, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1
   Smith, Adam, 3.1, 3.2, 6.1, 8.1
   on slavery, 3.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1
   Smith, John, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10, 2.11, 2.12, 2.13, 3.1, 10.1
   autobiographical accounts of
   control of Jamestown by
   smuggling, 1.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6
   snails
   snakes
   snuff
   soil, 1.1, 2.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2
   aluminum-saturated
   degradation and depletion of, 2.1, 2.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 6.1, 6.2, 10.1, 10.2
   layers of
   see also erosion, fertilizer
   solanine, 6.1, 6.2
   Solanum maglia
   Solanum tuberosum, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5
   Soledade (Brazil maroon community)
   Solenopsis geminata, see fire ant
   Song dynasty, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2
   Songhay empire
   Song Junling
   soup kitchens
   South America, 3.1, 3.2
   South Carolina, 3.1, 6.1
   South Drive Bar and Grill
   Soviet Union
   Spain, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 9.2
   banning of Indian slavery by
   Basque region of
   borrowing by
   Indian policy of
   Indian slavery banned by
   interracial coupling encouraged by
   justification of conquest by, 8.1, 8.2
   liberty promised to maroons by
   maroon-pirate alliance and, 9.1, 9.2
   Moors in
   opposition to galleon trade in
   payment of taxes to King of, 9.1, 9.2
   restriction of mixed people by
   silk in
   silver trade and, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 3.1, 4.1, 9.1
   slavery in, 3.1, 8.1, 8.2
   tax rates in
   tobacco and
   war of
   Spanish Armada, 1.1, 4.1
   Spanish Inquisition
   Spanish language
   Spanish pesos, 1.1, 4.1
   Spellman, Henry
   Spielman, Andrew
   Sri Lanka, 4.1, 7.1, 8.1
   Stallenge, Edward
   State Department, U.S.
   Staudinger, Hermann
   Stedman, John Gabriel
   steel
   stomata
   Stowe, Harriet Beecher
   Strachey, William, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
   Strategic Advantages and Weaknesses of Each Province in the Empire, The (Gu), 4.1
   Strategic Energy and Economics Research
   Striker, Laura Polyani
   Studies on the East and West Oceans (Zhang)
   sucrose
   Suffolk
   sugarcane, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 5.1, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 10.1
   domestication of
   plantation agriculture and
   in São Tomé
   sugar mills, 3.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
   sugar plantations, 3.1, 3.2, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 9.6
   Islamic
   suicide
   Sulayman, Rajah
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					     					 			sp; sulfur, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
   sulfur dioxide
   Sumatra, 4.1, 7.1
   sunflowers
   sunspots
   Surat
   Suriname, 3.1, 9.1, 9.2
   Suriname River
   sweet potatoes, prl.1, prl.2, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.1, 8.1, 10.1, 10.2
   swine flu
   Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
   Switzerland, 1.1, 6.1
   sycee, 4.1
   synthetic rubber
   Syria
   Tabriz
   Taino (Indian group), 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1
   population of, 1.1, 10.1
   Taiwan
   Taiwan Strait
   Taj Mahal
   talavera ware, 8.1
   Tampa Bay
   Tang dynasty, 4.1, 8.1
   Tang Jianwei, 7.1, 7.2, 10.1
   tantos
   Tao Weining
   Tapajós River, 7.1, 7.2
   Tardieu, Jean-Pierre, 9.1, 9.2
   taro
   tassantassas
   taxes (and tariffs), 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 10.1
   Taylor, Zachary
   tea, 4.1, 7.1
   Teatro Amazonas
   Teatro de Paz
   Tecuichpotzin (Isabel)
   Temple Church
   Tenochtitlan, 1.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4
   tente en el aire, 8.1, 8.2
   terraces, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 6.1, 10.1
   tertian fever, 3.1, 3.2, 10.1
   Testu, Guillaume le
   Texas, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1
   Texcoco
   textile industry, 1.1, 3.1, 4.1
   Thai catfish
   Thailand, 7.1, 7.2
   Thames
   Thelma’s Paradise, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
   Thirty-six Bravos
   Thirty Years’ War
   Thornton, John K., 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
   “Three Norths” project
   “3–3–3” system
   Tibet
   tilapia
   tires, 7.1, 7.2
   Tiwanaku (Indian group)
   Tlacopan
   Tlaxcala
   Tlaxcalans
   tobacco, prl.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
   addiction to
   in China, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
   environmental impact of, 2.1, 10.1
   “houses”
   international culture of
   poetry (Chinese)
   profits on
   snuff
   Tokyo (Edo), 1.1, 1.2
   Toledo, Francisco de
   Tolosa, Juan de
   tomatine
   tomatoes, prl.1, 6.1, 6.2
   toqosh
   Toussaint, see Louverture, Toussaint
   toxic treadmill
   trade, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 3.1, 5.1, 6.1, 10.1, 10.2
   China’s ban on private, 4.1, 4.2
   joint-stock companies and
   of Philippine rice
   two roles of
   see also galleon trade; silver; specific trade goods
   transvestites
   Traveller-7, 10.1, 10.2
   Tree of Rivers (Hemming), 7.1, 7.2
   tribute payments
   Trio
   Triple Alliance (Aztec empire), 1.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4
   assaults on
   Tropical Crops Research Institute
   True Account of the Story of Planting Sweet Potatoes in Qinghai, Henan, and Other Provinces
   True Travels, Adventures and Observations of Captain John Smith, The (1630), 2.1, 2.2
   Trujillo (Spain)
   Trujillo, Rafael, 1.1, 1.2
   Tsenacomoco (Indian empire), 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8
   agriculture in
   colonists changes made to
   streams of
   tuberculosis, 3.1, 4.1
   tubers
   tuckahoe, 2.1, 2.2
   Tull, Jethro
   tulou, 5.1, 5.2
   turkey
   Twenty-four Constellations
   Twenty-four Generals
   typhoid
   Tyre
   ullamaliztli
   Umbanda
   Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe)
   underground railroad
   UNESCO, 9.1, 10.1
   Union Act of 1707
   United Nations, 7.1, 7.2
   United States, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1
   anti-Italian prejudice in
   blight in, 6.1, 6.2
   guano trade and
   Philippines seized by
   punishing economic embargo on Haiti by
   rubber blockade on China of
   rubber trade and
   Urban VIII, Pope, 1.1, 2.1
   Urdaneta y Cerain, Andrés Ochoa de, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 8.1
   Ursúa, Pedro de
   Ute
   Utopia (More)
   Valdivia, Pedro de
   Valencia, Martín de
   Valiente, Juan
   Vandenbroeke, Chris
   Van der Straet, Jan
   Varela, Consuelo
   Vatican
   Venezuela
   imported slaves from
   Venice, 1.1, 1.2, 8.1
   Venta de Cruces, 9.1, 9.2
   Veracruz, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1
   Verasátegui, Domingo de
   Verne, Jules
   Vicuñas, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
   Vidal, Laurent
   Vieira, Alberto, 8.1, 8.2
   Vietnam, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1
   Vietnam War
   Vietti, Gigi
   Vijayanagar
   Vikings
   Vila Nova Mazagão, 9.1, 9.2
   vineyards
   Virginia, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 9.1
   drainage projects in
   drought in
   European deaths in
   malaria in
   slave population of
   swamp-drainage projects in
   see also Jamestown, Va.
   Virginia Company, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 3.1
   Virginia Department of Health
   Virginia Impartially Examined (Bullock)
   Virginia Indians, identification badges of
   Virgin Mary, 8.1, 8.2
   volcanoes, 1.1, 1.2, 6.1, 10.1
   Voltaire
   von Glahn, Richard, 4.1, 4.2
   Vries, David Pieterszoon de
   vulcanization, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4
   wacho, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
   walnut
   Wang Pu
   Wang Yuanfang
   Wanli, Ming emperor, 4.1, 4.2
   Wari
   Washington, D.C., 3.1, 9.1
   Washington, George
   water hyacinth
   Waterloo
   water molds
   Wealth and Poverty of Nations (Landes), 2.1, 4.1
   Wealth of Nations, The (Smith), 3.1, 3.2
   Webb, James L. A.
   Webster, Daniel
   Weiditz, Christoph
   Weir, James R., 7.1, 7.2
   Wennersten, John R.
   Werowocomoco, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
   West Africa, 3.1, 9.1
   West Flanders
   wheat, 1.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
   water content of
   wheat (Triticum aestivum)
   White, Andrew
   white lead
   Whydah
   Wickham, Henry Alexander, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4
   Wight, Andrew
   William, King of England
   Williams, Michael
   Wilson, Edward O.
   wine industry
   Winthrop, John
   Wisconsin
   Wither, George
   Witte, Nicolás de
   Wittfogel, Karl
   wokou (“Japanese pirates”), 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 5.1
   Wood, Wil 
					     					 			liam
   Woodlief, John
   Woods, William I.
   World Heritage Site
   World War, I, 6.1, 7.1
   “worm” fences
   worms, 2.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4
   see also earthworms
   Wright, Frank Lloyd
   Wuhan
   Wu Island, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
   Wu Ruozeng
   Xiamen, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1
   Xie Zhaozhe, 4.1, 5.1
   Xishuangbanna prefecture, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 10.1
   Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, 7.1, 7.2
   yams, 5.1, 6.1
   Yancao pu (Tobacco Manual), 5.1
   Yanga, Gaspar, 9.1, 9.2
   Yang Chang
   Yangling
   Yangzi River, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
   Yan pu (Smoking Manual)
   yaodong (cave dwellings), 5.1, 5.2
   Yao Lü
   Yeardley, George
   yellow fever, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 9.6
   see also Aedes aegypti
   Yongding
   Yongle, Ming emperor, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
   Yongzheng, Qing emperor
   York River, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
   Young, Arthur, 6.1, 6.2
   Yuan dynasty, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4
   Yuegang, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 5.1
   Philippine trade of, 4.1, 10.1
   Yunnan, 5.1, 7.1
   Yunnan Natural Rubber
   zambo
   Zhangpu County
   Zhang Xie
   Zhejiang, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2
   Zheng Chenggong (Koxinga)
   Zheng Fenli
   Zheng He, 4.1, 10.1
   flagship of
   Zhuge Yuansheng
   Zhu Wan, 4.1, 4.2
   zhuzai
   Zimbabwe
   Zimmerer, Karl
   zooplankton
   zoospores
   Zuitou
   Zumbi
   Zuni (Indian group)
   MAP CREDITS
   Maps by Nick Springer and Tracy Pollock, Springer Cartographics LLC. Sources as follows:
   Map 2 Redrawn from Guitar 1998:13.
   Map 4 Data collected by National Geographic from David G. Anderson, Jeffrey C. Bendremer, Faith Davison, Penelope Drooker, George Hamell, John Hart, Stephen J. Hornsby, Bonnie G. McEwan, Bruce D. Smith, Douglas H. Ubelaker, Marvin T. Smith, Dean R. Snow, Alan Taylor, and John E. Worth. Original map published in National Geographic, May 2007. Redrawn with additional data and advice from William Denevan, William Doolittle, Allan Gallay, and William I. Woods. Also consulted: Helen Hornbeck Tanner, Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History (1987).
   Map 5 Base map by Nick Springer published in National Geographic, May 2007; data from sources above, Helen Rountree, Martin D. Gallivan; additional data from Barlow 2003:22. My thanks to William McNulty and the rest of the NG cartography staff for allowing Nick and me to adapt these maps.
   Map 6 Data from Preservation Virginia, Wetlands Vision (U.K.), Smith 1956. My thanks to Robert C. Anderson and William Thorndale for critiques and suggestions.
   Map 7 Data from Kiszewski et al. 2004:488; Webb 2009:87; Gilmore 1955:348; author’s interview, Donald Gaines.
   Map 12 Redrawn from Central Bureau of Meteorological Sciences (China) 1981.
   Map 13 Redrawn from Bourke 1964:806.
   Map 14 Data from Hecht forthcoming, pers. comm.; Schurz et al. 1925.