Fields of Blood (100 page)

Arians,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
6.4

Aristotle

Arjan Dev, Guru

Arjuna,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
11.1
,
12.1

Armagh, John

Armand-Amalric

Armed Islamic Group (GIA)

Armenia,
6.1
,
7.1
,
11.1
; Turkish genocide in,
11.2
,
13.1
,
aft.1

Armstrong, William

Army of Jhangvi

Arthur, King of England,
1.1
,
8.1

Artois (France)

Aryans
,
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
aft.1
; Indo-,
1.4
,
11.1
;
see also
Indo-Europeans

Arya Samaj,
10.1
,
11.1

Arya Vir Dal

Asad, Talal

asceticism,
itr.1
,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3

Anshan (Persia)

Asherah

Ashoka
, Mauryan emperor,
itr.1
,
itr.2
,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
3.1
,
8.1
,
11.1
,
11.2
,
aft.1
,
aft.2

Ashur,
1.1
,
4.1

Ashura,
11.1
,
11.2
,
11.3
,
11.4

Ashur-uballit I

Ashvins

Ashwatthaman

Assassins

Assyrian Empire,
1.1
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4
,
4.5
,
5.1

Ata, Muhammad,
13.1
,
13.2
,
13.3

Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal,
11.1
,
11.2

Athanasius,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3

atheism,
10.1
,
10.2
,
10.3
,
11.1
,
11.2
,
aft.1
, 367

Athens,
5.1
,
6.1

Atrahasis,
13.1

atrocities,
itr.1
,
2.1
,
3.1
,
13.1
; colonialism and,
10.1
,
10.2
; religion-based,
7.1
,
8.1
,
11.1
,
11.2
,
13.2
; revolutions and,
10.3
,
10.4
; during World Wars,
11.3
,
12.1
;
see also
genocide
;
terrorism

Augsburg, Peace of,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
10.1

Augustine, Aurelius, bishop of Hippo,
itr.1
,
4.1
,
6.1

Augustus, Roman emperor,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
5.4
,
5.5

Aurangzeb, Moghul emperor,
10.1
,
10.2

Auschwitz concentration camp

Australia

Austria,
9.1
,
9.2
,
10.1
,
10.2

Austro-Prussian War

autocracy,
2.1
,
7.1
,
10.1

Avars

Avestan,
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3
,
2.1
n

Avignon (France),
8.1
,
9.1

Aviner, Shlomo

Aws tribe

Ayodhya,
11.1
,
12.1
,
12.2

Ayub Khan

Ayyubid Empire

Azhar madrassa,
10.1
,
13.1

Aztecs,
9.1
,
9.2

Azzam, Abdullah,
13.1
,
13.2
,
13.3

Baal,
itr.1
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
11.1

Baath party

Babel, Tower of,
4.1
,
10.1

Babri mosque (Ayodhya)

Babur, Moghul emperor

Babylonian Empire,
1.1
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.2a
,
4.3
,
4.4
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3

Babylonian Talmud

Badr, Battle of,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3

Baghdad (Iraq),
6.1
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
13.1

Bagram (Afghanistan)

Bahrain

Baibars

Baldwin, Ebenezer

Baldwin of Bouillon

Bali

Balkans,
5.1
,
13.1
,
13.2
;
see also specific states

Baltics

Bani Sadr, Abulhassan

Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Bantu tribe

Banu Ghassan (Arab tribe)

Baptists

barbarians,
1.1
,
2.1
,
5.1
,
8.1
; Chinese indigenous peoples seen as,
2.2
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
; Byzantine Empire attacked by,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
; in Roman Empire,
5.2
,
5.3
,
6.4
,
7.1

Bar Ilan University

Bar Kokhba revolt,
5.1
,
7.1
,
aft.1

Barsauma

Bashir, Sheikh Muhammad,
13.1

Basil, bishop of Caesarea

Basilica of St. Peter (Rome)

Basra (Iraq)

Bastille, fall of,
10.1
,
10.2
,
11.1

Bathsheba

Bay of Pigs invasion

Beast (Book of Revelation)

Beauvoir, Simone de

Bedouin,
1.1
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3

Beecher, Henry Ward

Beersheba (Israel)

Begin, Menachem

Beirut (Lebanon)

Belgium

Benedictine order,
8.1
,
8.2

Bengal,
2.1
,
10.1

Benjamin (tribe)

Benjamin, Walter

Benjedid, Chadli

Ben Shoshan, Yeshua

Berbers

Bernard, Saint,
8.1
,
8.2

Berri, Nabih

Bethel (Israel),
4.1
,
4.2

Bethlehem (Palestine),
5.1
,
8.1

Beza, Theodore

Bhagavad-Gita,
71,
2.1
,
11.1

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)

Bhīma

Bhutto, Zulfiqar Ali

Bibi, Mamana,
13.1
,
aft.1

Bible,
10.1
,
10.2
,
10.3
,
10.4
,
10.5
,
11.1
,
11.2
,
aft.1
; Acts of the Apostles,
5.1
,
12.1
; Old Testament of,
see
Hebrew Bible
; Protestantism and individual interpretations of,
9.1
,
9.2
; Revelation,
5.2
,
5.3
,
5.4
,
11.3
; and Wars of Religion,
9.3

Bill of Rights

Bimbisara, King of Magadha

Binding, Rudolf

Bin Laden, Osama,
13.1
,
13.2
,
13.3
,
13.4
,
13.5
,
13.6
,
13.7
,
13.8
,
13.9
,
aft.1

Bindusara, Mauryan emperor

Bismarck, Otto von

Black Panthers

Blair, Tony

Blandina, Saint

Bloch, Marc

Blois (France)

blood libel

Bohemund, Count of Taranto

Bokhara

Boniface VIII, Pope

Bonner, Edmund

Book of Mozi, The,
92

Book of Songs, The,
80

Bordeaux (France)

Borgia family

Bosnia,
13.1
,
13.2
,
13.3
,
13.4

Bossy, John

Boston, colonial,
10.1
,
10.2

Bourbons

bourgeoisie
,
9.1
,
10.1
,
10.2
,
10.3
,
11.1
,
12.1

Bourke, Joanna

Bouteflika, Abdul-Aziz

Bouyeri, Muhammad

Bradford, William

Brahman (“The All”),
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
2.4
,
4.1
,
11.1
,
12.1

Brahmanas,
2.1
,
2.2

Brahmins,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
2.4
,
2.5
,
2.6
,
2.7
,
2.8
,
2.9

Brandenburg

Brazil

Bremen (Germany)

Brennan, John O.

Brhadaranyaka Upanishad

Britain
,
11.1
,
12.1
; American Revolution against,
10.1
; colonialism of,
9.1
(
see also specific colonies
); division of Ottoman territories by France and,
11.2
; imperialism of,
10.2
,
10.3
,
10.4
,
11.3
,
13.1
,
aft.1
; Indian struggle for independence from,
2.1
,
11.4
; Industrial Revolution in,
10.5
; in Iraq War,
13.2
,
13.3
,
13.4
; Israel and,
11.5
,
12.2
; Middle East influence of,
11.6
,
11.7
,
11.8
,
11.9
,
11.10
; partition of Indian subcontinent by,
11.11
,
11.12
; Roman conquest of,
5.1
;
see also
England; Scotland

British Empire,
see
Britain
, imperialism of

British Museum,
itr.1
,
itr.2
,
4.1

Brittany (France),
8.1
,
10.1

Brooklyn Bridge

Bryan, William Jennings

Buddha
,
2.1
,
3.1
,
5.1
,
nts.1
n86

Buddhism,
2.1
,
2.2
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
10.1
,
10.2
,
11.1
,
aft.1
; of Ashoka,
2.3
,
2.4
,
aft.2
; ethical tradition of,
itr.1
,
5.1
; monasticism in,
2.5
,
12.1
,
aft.3
; nonviolence of,
itr.2
,
2.6

Burma

Bury St. Edmunds
(
England
)

Bush, George W.,
13.1
,
13.2
,
13.3
,
13.4

bushmen, Kalahari

Bushnell, Howard

Bute, Lord

Buyid dynasty,
7.1

Byzantine Empire
,
6.1
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
7.4
,
8.1
,
aft.1
; Persian wars with,
6.2
,
7.5
,
7.6
; reassertion of Roman Catholic authority in,
8.2
; trade routes to,
7.7
; Turkish invasion of,
7.8

Caecilian,
6.1
,
nts.1
n16

Caesarea (Israel),
5.1
,
5.2
,
6.1
,
6.2

Cain,
4.1
,
13.1

Cairo (Egypt),
10.1
,
12.1
,
12.2

Cairo Agreement (1969)

Cajetan, Cardinal Thomas

Calabria (Italy)

Calgacus

Caligula, Gaius, Roman emperor

Callinicum, Battle of,
6.1
,
6.2

Calvin, John,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
11.1
,
nts.1
n55

Calvinism,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
9.4
,
10.1

Cambyses II, King of Persia

Camp David Accords,
11.1
,
12.1
,
12.2
,
12.3

Canaan,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4
,
4.5
,
5.1
,
8.1
,
nts.1
n32

Canada,
10.1
,
13.1

cannibalism,
8.1
,
9.1
,
9.2

Cape Verde Islands

capitalism,
7.1
,
8.1
,
9.1
,
10.1
,
11.1
,
12.1
,
13.1
; opposition to,
10.2
,
11.2
,
11.3

Cappadocia,
1.1
,
5.1
,
6.1

Carolingian dynasty
,
8.1
,
8.2

Carter, Jimmy,
11.1
,
11.2
,
11.3

Carthage,
5.1
,
5.2
,
6.1
,
6.2