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94 matches to Cult of Reason
Cult of Reason. Reason, Cult of.
Hébert, Jacques. 1757-94. French revolutionary extremist. Led Sansculottes. Cult of Reason.
Robespierre, Maximilien de. 1758-94. Jacobin extremist French revolutionary leader. Opposed Cult of Reason. Led Terror. Executed.
Supreme Being, Cult of. 1794. French Revolution. Robespierre. Cult of Reason.
Akhenaton (Amenhotep IV). -1362BC. Founded sun (Aton) cult in Egypt. Reigned 1379-. Amarna age.
Alexandria. Founded 332BC by Alexander the Great. Centre of Hellenistic culture. Lighthouse one of Seven Wonders. 284BC Great Library of 700,000+ volumes. Fires 47BC, 391.
Andania Mysteries. Greek cult for Demeter + Persephone.
Benedictines. 529-. RC monastic order. Spread Christianity. Preserved Latin culture.
Bogomils. 9-15C. Slavic ascetic Christian cult. All matter created by the devil.
Burckhardt, Jacob. 1818-97. Swiss cultural historian. Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy 1860.
Cabiri. Phrygian, later Greek fertility cult gods: Demeter, Hermes, Persephone.
Carver, George W. 1864-1943. US agriculturalist. Former slave.
Corn Laws. 1804-15. British agricultural price support. Repeal, 1846, marks transformation from agricultural to industrial priorities and free trade.
Country Party. 1913-. Australian pro-agriculture party. Small but influential in coalition governments.
Crusades. 1095-1272. European Christian wars to regain Holy Land after Seljuk Turks take Jerusalem in 1072. Literature and the arts benefitted from Eastern cultural infusion. Peasants 1096. Annihilated. First. 1096-99. Genoa financed Godfrey of Bouillon to recapture Jerusalem. Only successful crusade. Second. 1147-49. Louis VII and Conrad III pillage Byzantium. Third. 1189-92. Richard I and Philip II Truce with Saladin allows access to Jerusalem. Fourth. 1202-4. French and Flemish nobles conquer, sack Constantinople, form Latin Empire. Childrens. 1212. Stephen of Cloyes led 30,000 unarmed French youths. Nicholas of Cologne led 20,000 German. All died or enslaved. Fifth. 1218-21. John of Brienne in Egypt. Sixth. 1228-29. Frederick II crowned king of Jerusalem. Seventh. 1248-54. St Louis of France captured by Egypt and ransomed. Eighth. 1270. St Louis dies of plague. Ninth. 1271-2. Prince Edward of England.
Cultural Revolution. 1966-9. Mao’s Red Guards purge China of bourgeois, capitalist elements.
Demeter. Greek goddess of agriculture = Ceres.
Depression. 1873-96. Caused by gold shortage, agricultural shortage, overspeculation, deflation.
Dvaravati. 6-13C. Kingdom in Thailand. Indian culture.
Food and Agriculture Organization. 1945- UN agency. Administers World Food Program.
Gang of Four. Chinese leaders, including Mao’s widow, convicted 1980 of Cultural Revolution abuses.
German Movement. 18C Nationalist cultural movement. Lessing, Goethe, Schiller.
Hallstatt. ~1100BC. Pioneer iron-age culture in Austria. Spread to Spain, Greece.
Han. 202BC-220. Chinese dynasty. Promoted Confucianism, education, culture, bureaucracy. KaoTsu.
Haskala. 18-19C Cultural movement to move European Jews from ghettos into mainstream.