41-42,143
Solomon，King,所罗门王72
Somalia,索马里，529,540
sophists诡辩学派（智者学派）141
South Afric,南非418,470,478,481,485
South Ameica,南美洲.See Latin Americ; specific countries,见拉丁美洲；特定国家
Southeast Asia,东南亚521,524.See also specific countries,也见特定国家
South Sea Bubble,“南海泡沫事件”369
Soviet-Afghan war,苏联-阿富汗战争535
Soviet Union,苏联497-98,500-509,511,514,516-37; dissolution,解体537.See also Cold War; Russia, Russian,也见冷战，俄国，俄国人
space exploitation,太空探索526-27
Spain, Spaniards,西班牙，西班牙人115,161,196,200,2123,259,262,304,309,414-15,379-82
Sparta,斯巴达94,134,137,141,147
Spengler, Oswald,奥斯瓦尔德·斯宾格勒514
Spinoza,Baruch,巴鲁克·斯宾诺莎370
Ssu-ma Chi’en,司马迁174
Stalin,Josef,约瑟夫·斯大林490,501-2,503,504,517,520
Stalingrad,斯大林格勒508
Stanley, Henry M., 亨利·H.斯坦利478
Steam engines,蒸汽机368,420,545
steamships蒸汽机轮船421
Stephen II，Pope，教皇斯蒂芬二世231
steppe peoples,草原民族4,23-25,41,44,47,114-18,180,194-98,200-202,239-44,328-29,352-53,
Stone Age,石器时代8-13,274
Stonehenge,巨石阵44
Sudan,苏丹，540
Suez Canal,苏伊士运河423,530
Sufism,苏菲派244-47,338,385
Sui dynasty,隋朝197,200,224
Suleiman, Sultan, 344-45苏丹苏莱曼
Sumatra,苏门答腊188,274
Sumer,Sumerians,苏美尔，苏美尔人11-21,27,37,66,69,82
Sung dynasty,宋朝224,226,253
Suni Moslems,逊尼派穆斯林217,344-46
Sun Yat-sen,孙逸仙（孙中山）459-60
Sur das,348
Sweden,瑞典232,309,330,361,
Switzerland,瑞士495
Syria,叙利亚48,52-53,56,65,66,151,164,193,210,240,451-52,520
Syrian church,叙利亚教会207
Szechuan,四川117
Taiping rebellion,太平天国叛乱40,441,445
Tamerlane,帖木儿344
T’ang dynasty,唐朝200,220,223,224-25,227,269
Tantrism,密宗228
Taoism,道家111-12,173,191,219,226,
Tape recordings, 磁带录音538,547
Tatars,哒哒人328
telgraph,电报424,545
television,电视机510,545,546
temples,神庙15,32,72,146,184,190,228,248,274,279
terrorism,恐怖主义539
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