Concentration Camps. 1862-65 USA. 1899-1902. British internment of Boers in South Africa. 1922-91. USSR. 1933-45 Nazi prisons for extermination and slave labour. Buchenwald. Auschwitz. Dachau. 1942-6 US Relocation Centers. 1942-46 Canada. 1950’s Kenya. 1973 Chile.

Conciliarism. 12C-. General Council has greater power than pope. Popular during Great Schism.

Concini, Concino. -1617. Italian favourite of Marie de Medici. Marshal of France. Executed.

Concord, Book of. 1580. Synthesis of creeds and catechisms of Lutheranism.

Concordat. Ecclesiastic treaty between church and state.

Condé. 1530-1866. Branch of French Bourbons. Revolt 1615.

Condorcet, Marquis de. 1743-94. French philosopher. Perfectibility of mankind.

Condottieri. 14-15C. Ineffective Italian mercenary leaders.

Confederacy. 1861-5. Rebel US government in American Civil War.

Confederation. 1867. United Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Upper and Lower Canada as Dominion of Canada.

Confederation Group. 19C Canadian nationalistic poets. Carmen.

Confucius. 551-479BC. Chinese philosopher and moralist. Advocated reason, love and respect for others over supernatural. Chinese Exam. Wu Ching.

Congo Conference. 1884. Bismarck mediates. Congo comes under Belgian sovereignty.

Congregationalism. 1581-. Protestant Church organization of local churches governing themselves. Browne.

Congress, US. Senate and House of Representatives. Legislative branch of government.

Congress (I) Party. 1978-. Split from Congress Party under Indira Gandhi.

Congress Party. 1885-. Indian political party. In power 1947-77.

Congress Poland. 1815-64. Polish Kingdom created by Congress of Vienna. Ruled by Russian Czar.

Congress System. 1815-25. Diplomacy by regular meetings of Britain, Austria, Prussia, and Russia.

Congreve, William. 1670-1729. English playwright of manners. Way of the World 1700.

Connecticut Wits. 18C US satiric collaborative poets. Anarchiad 1786-87.

Conquillards. Jargon language. Villon.

Conquistadors. Spanish conquerors in America.

Conrad, Joseph. 1857-1924. Polish/English novelist emphasizing relations between people and circumstances. Lord Jim 1900. Heart of Darkness 1902.

Conrad I. -918. First non-Carolingian king of Germany 911-.

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