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Dewey, Melvil. 1851-1931. US. Devised library catalogue system.
Dyarchy. 1919. System of shared local/British power in India. Led to Indian autonomy.
Encomienda. 16-18C Spanish system of Indian forced labour.
Epiphenomenalism. Mind exists only as a process within the physical system of matter. Cannot exist without it. Hobbes.
Feudalism. 8-14C. Social system. Lord grants land rights (fiefs) to vassals in return for military or other service. Manorialism. Seignorialism.
Final Solution. 1941-45. Systematic slaughter of Jews and minorities by Nazis. Holocaust.
Fingerprints. 8C Chinese used as signatures. 1870 Indian classification system. 1901 Galton-Henry System, Scotland Yard.
Franco de Colonia. 13C. Systemized musical notation.
Frederick IV. 1671-1730. King of Norway and Denmark, 1699-. Abolished serfdom. Educational system.
Gödel, Kurt. 1906-78. Czech/US logician. Theorem, 1931, asserts that no logical system can prove all its own propositions.
Han Wu Ti. 156-87BC. Chinese Emperor 140-. Confucianism as state religion. Exam system for civil service used to 20C.
Henry II. 1133-1189. Plantagenet king of England 1154-. Common Law system. Married Eleanor of Aquitaine. Angevin Empire. Becket. Rosamund.
Hieroglyphics. c3400BC-500. Egyptian picture writing system. Rosetta Stone.
Hinduism. c 1500BC-. Indian religion. Cycles of life, death, reincarnation. Release by enlightenment. Caste system. Vedas. Root of Buddhism, Jainism, many sects. Upanishads.
Independent Treasury. 1846-1913. US financial system not using private banks. Federal Reserve System.
Jagirdar System. 13C-. Indian feudal system granting tax revenues to officials.
Joei Shikimoku. 1232. Established Japanese Shogunate feudal system.
Lagrange, Louis. 1736-1813. French mathematician. Analysis of mechanical systems. Celestial mechanics.
Laplace, Pierre. 1749-1827. French mathematician, astronomer. Celestial mechanics 1779-1825. Solar system origin from condensed gas.
Linnaeus, Carolus. 1707-78. Swedish botanist. Created Latin genus/species naming convention. Systema Naturae 1735. Philosophia Botanica 1751. Classified Homo Sapiens 1766.
List, Friedrich. 1789-1846. German economist. Advocated protectionism. National System of Political Economy 1846.
Lombards. Germanic people. 568 invaded Italy. 808 Jews formed banking system. 14C Commercial banks.
Magnus VI. 1238-80. Norwegian king 1263-. Law system.
Mann, Horace. 1796-1859. US educator. Modern public education system.
Manorial System. (Seignorial). 11-15C. Lord grants peasant rights to till land for fixed payment.