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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics women air fighters WWII 216–40

  see also Russia

  United States

  Constitution

  19th Amendment 244–5

  Equal Rights Amendment 261

  feminist writings 241–4, 260–1

  Uyuk people

  tombs ‘Valley of the Kings’ 56–67

  Vandals, and Alans 103

  Vershinin, General Konstantin

  on Night Bombers 225

  issues underwear 230–1

  Vespucci, Amerigo, and Brazil 132–3

  Virgil, Aeneid 178

  Vogel, Henriette, suicide with Kleist 189–90

  Völkerwanderung 102

  Voltaire 169, 171

  and du Boccage 173, 178, 180

  denies Amazons 171, 173

  on Les Amazones 177

  Waorani (Huaorani) people, Ecuador 24, 135–6, 144, 215

  Weimar 182

  Wells, H. G., Sanger and 245

  Werther Effect 181

  Westphalia Treaty 168

  Whydah (Ouidah) viceroy 199

  Wilmott, Arthur, on Dahomey women’s army superior to men 193

  Winckelmann, Johann, on art 181

  Woman Rebel (magazine) 244

  women

  and aviation, USSR 216–40

  Greek men threatened by 25

  in French Revolution, Schiller on 184

  in science, Benedict XIV and 178–80

  warriors, kurgans 54–6

  Uyuk Culture 57–61, 65–7

  see also Amazons

  Women’s Battalion of Death (WWI) 216

  Women’s Christian Temperance Union 215–16

  Women’s Defence Units (YPJ), Kurdish Syria 269–73

  Wonder Woman xvi-xvii, 241–2, 253, 255–62

  70s TV series 261

  as role model 261

  bracelets 256, 258

  influence 260–2

  Lasso of Truth 258

  links to classical Greece 255–8

  UN ambassador for the Empowerment of Women and Girls 2016 261

  Woolley, Mary, and suffrage movement 244

  Wytfliet, Cornelius, puts Amazones on map 149

  Xinjiang oasis burials 86

  Yablonsky, Leonid, on Pokrovka kurgans 96–101

  Yak-1 fighter planes 222, 228, 229

  Yakovlev, Alexander, Yak-1

  fighter planes 222

  Yanomamo people 145–6

  Yazidi (Ezidi) people, IS and 269

  Yenisei River 61

  Yevdokimov, Sasha 235–6

  Yisungge, flight archery 106

  Yoruba people, Nigeria 193, 206, 207

  Zakynthos 19–20

  Zen archery 111

  Zeus xvi, xviii, 5, 12, 188, 204

  Also by John Man

  Gobi

  Atlas of the Year 1000

  Alpha Beta

  The Gutenberg Revolution

  Genghis Khan

  Attila

  Kublai Khan

  The Terracotta Army

  The Great Wall

  The Leadership Secrets of Genghis Khan

  Xanadu

  Samurai

  The Mongol Empire

  Saladin

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