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48 matches to Dark Ages
Hindustani. Hindi and Urdu languages.
Hostage Crisis. 1979-81. Iranian miltants sieze US Embassy. Hold 52 hostages 444 days.
Iconoclasts. 726-843. Byzantines opposed use of images in Christian worship vs Iconophiles. Persecuted. Nicaea.
Kukai. 774-835. Japanese Buddhist. Evolved “True Word” philosophy. 10 Stages of Consciousness.
Labourers, Statute. 1351. Parliament’s freezing of rising wages after plague leads to Peasants Revolt.
Mogadishu Raid. 1977. German commandos rescue hijack hostages.
Occitan. Langue d’Oc. Romance language of southern France. Dialects include Provençale, the language of the troubadours. Oil.
Pahlavi. 3-10C. Iranian branch of Indo-European languages.
Piaget, Jean. 1896-1980. Swiss psychologist. Child development in four stages: sensorimotor, symbolic, concrete, logical.
Place de Grève. -1830 Meeting place for Paris unemployed in Middle Ages.
Prakrit. Family of Indic languages from which Indo-Aryan springs.
Romance Languages. European languages deriving from Latin.
Romansh. Romance language spoken in Grison Canton of Switzerland. “National” language 1938-.
Roux, Jacques. -1794. Led Enragés.
Sapir, Edward. 1884-1939. Polish/US linguist. Studied North American Indian languages.
Saracens. Moslems in the Middle Ages. Caliphate Empire.
Sceptics. We can know nothing more than the fleeting images of consciousness. Most is unknowable. Pyrrho.
Segregation. Separation of the races to maintain the advantages of one.
Spanish Marriages, Affair of. 1846. Isabella’s sister, heir marries French prince, despite Spanish assurances, causing English/French rift.
Unicorn. Mythical subject of art 400BC-Middle Ages.
Verner, Karl. 1846-96. Danish philologist of Indo-European languages. Phonetics 1875.
Wilfrid, St. 634-709. Bishop of York 665-. Urged Roman usages at Whitby Synod.
Zwingli, Huldrych. 1484-1531. Swiss humanist and religious reformer. Zurich Reformation 1522. Urged priests to marry. Attacked Roman mass and worship of images. Swiss Evangelical Church. Killed in Kappel Wars.