• Frederick the Wise, 365
• Frederick William I, 435, 438
• Free trade, 456, 461, 558, 561, 564, 588, 601, 616, 662, 788, 849, 870, 883–884, 905
• Free will, 207, 409
• Freetown, 600
• French and Indian War, 406, 409–410, 443, 462
• French East India Company, 392
• French Equatorial Africa, 601
• French Revolution, 132, 425, 453, 467–470, 482–483, 485, 487–488, 492, 535–538, 545–546, 570, 572, 582
  • Civil Constitution of the Clergy, 473, 480
  • Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, 1, 466, 471–472
  • Declaration of the Rights of Woman, 472
  • impact of, 587
  • radical phases of, 474–476, 479–481
  • Reign of Terror, 475, 481, 493
• Fresco, 126–127, 130, 145, 173, 175, 354
• Freud, Sigmund, 704–705
• Friars, 203, 208
• Frisia, 229
• Fronde, 431, 446
• Fujiwara, 335
• Fulani, 598, 603
• Fulton, Robert, 502
• Fur, 17, 191, 193, 212, 272, 406–407, 413, 551, 582
• Futa Toro, 412, 423
• Führer, 727–728

G

• Gabon, 823, 844
• Gaius Gracchus, 163–165
• Galen, 176, 376
• Galileo, 374–375, 378, 380
• Galleons, 391
• Gallipoli, 656
• Gama, Vasco da, 384, 386
• Gambling, 745
• Gandhi, Indira, 812, 814–815, 845, 865
• Gandhi, Mohandas, 677, 691, 734, 812
• Gandhi, Rajiv, 896
• Ganges, 22, 63, 66–67, 77, 309, 815–816, 845
• Ganges Valley, 75
• Gao, 91, 287, 289–290
• Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 557, 559
• Garrison, William Lloyd, 575
• Garvey, Marcus, 684–685
• Gaul, 161, 169–170, 181, 186, 194
• Gautama, Siddhartha, 69, 71–72
• Gaza, 48, 149, 837–839, 896
• Gaza Strip, 831, 837–838
• Genes, 903
• Genesis, 40–41, 57
  • Biblical, 354
• Genetic engineering, 900, 903–904
• Genetically modified crops, 904
• Genetics, 6, 900, 903–904
• Geneva, 362, 366, 368, 372, 379, 448, 666, 709, 802
• Genghis Khan, 245, 267, 307, 312, 321–322
• Genji, 335–336
• Genoa, 191, 217, 253, 287, 352, 386
• Genocide, 605, 607, 642, 750–751, 753–755, 800, 821, 826–828, 841, 844, 873, 878
• Genoese, 238
• Gentry, 314, 317, 319, 446–448, 451
• Geoglyphs, 112
• Geometry, 30, 54, 110, 151, 232, 234, 304, 317
• George III, 460–462
• George, David Lloyd, 565, 664
• Georgia, 8, 277, 408, 461, 629, 803, 877
• Georgians, 671, 721
• Germanic kingdoms, 193–194
• Germanic peoples, 168–170, 193–194, 244, 247–248
• Germanic tribes, 169, 190, 194, 197, 203
• Germany,
  • Africa, colonies in, 733
  • Berlin Wall, 787, 804
  • Bismarck, 551–552, 554, 556, 566, 573, 603, 646
  • democracy, 551–556, 664, 727, 740, 769
  • imperialism, 642
  • in the Middle Ages, 196, 226
  • industrialization, 553
  • medieval, 229, 727
  • nationalism, 535, 551–556, 579, 648, 673
  • Nazi-Soviet Pact, 743–744
  • Reformation in, 361
  • reunification of, 804, 873, 875
  • socialism, 588
  • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and, 660, 670
  • Triple Alliance, 646
  • Triple Entente, 647
  • U-boats of, 659
  • unification of (1871), 551, 553, 556
  • Weimar Republic, 726
  • World War I, 645, 647–648, 650–651, 655–656, 659–661, 663–666, 673, 704, 707–708, 725, 727, 730, 733, 738, 743, 775
  • World War II, 701, 737, 740, 742–744, 748, 751, 753, 756–757, 760, 769–770, 774, 788, 794, 805, 807, 900
• Gestapo, 725, 728, 731
• Gettysburg, 577
• Ghana, 264, 284, 286–288, 290–291, 414–415, 823–824, 844
• Ghetto, 208, 368, 572, 750–753
  • Jewish, 373
• Gibraltar, 219
• Gilgamesh, 26–27
• Giza, 48–49, 54
• Gladstone, William, 561, 563
• Glasnost, 801, 804–805
  • openness, 802
• Global trade, 324, 327, 346, 394, 422, 881, 884
• Global warming, 886, 892
• Globalization, 882–883, 886–888, 904
  • and culture, 881
  • economic, 849, 881, 884, 906
  • technology and, 849, 885, 905
• Glorious Revolution, 444, 449–450, 453, 461, 469, 480, 492
• Glyphs, 107
• Goa, 309, 390–391
• Gobind Singh, 311
• God,
  • belief in, 17, 25, 29, 38, 41, 45, 69, 74, 142, 185, 258–259, 300, 310–311, 389, 524, 722
  • monotheistic, 40, 179, 258
• Godfrey of Bouillon, 199
• Gold,
  • in Brazil, 400
  • in Ghana, 286–288, 824
  • in West Africa, 270, 288, 290, 411
• Gold Coast, 413, 601, 822, 824
• Gold rushes, 630
• Golden Age, in China, 61, 314–320, 618
• Golden Horde, 245–247, 252
• Golden Temple, 812, 814, 845
• Good Neighbor Policy, 678, 682–683
• Gorbachev, Mikhail, 801–803
• Gorée, 414
• Gouges, Olympe de, 466, 472, 522
• Government,
  • Athenian democracy, 132
  • Athens, 134–135, 139, 141, 155
  • autocratic, 582, 667, 817
  • bureaucracy, 36, 47, 92, 171, 221, 266, 277–278, 317, 334, 344, 415, 426, 432, 788, 802
  • Byzantine Empire, 168, 192, 237
  • China, early, 82, 98
  • city-states, 28, 125, 134, 140, 154
  • democracy, 131, 134, 139, 141, 144, 152–154, 180, 207, 409, 543, 564, 570, 619, 699, 711–712, 788, 819, 869
  • Enlightenment, 452, 454, 490, 582
  • imperialism, 594, 621, 624, 635
  • in Korea, 315, 329
  • Mesopotamia, 37
  • monarchy, 28, 132, 134, 144, 153–154, 535, 537, 541, 564, 619
  • Montesquieu on, 454
  • Persian, 266, 609
  • Roman Empire, 167–168, 185

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