Committee of Public Safety. 1793-5. Ruled France. Robespierre’s reign of Terror.

Commodus. 161-192. Brutal Roman Emperor 177-.

Common Law. Based on precedents derived from reason rather than a code of statutes. Originally English.

Common Market. EEC.

Commonwealth. 1649-60. Government of England after Charles I executed. Cromwell.

Commonwealth. Organized community by consent of governed. Hobbes. Locke.

Commonwealth, British. 1926-. Free association of autonomous countries. Evolved from the British Empire. Statute of Westminster 1931.

Commune. 1789-94. Paris council. Overode the National Assembly by controlling administration.

Commune, Paris. 1871. Revolutionary government formed when Thiers abandoned Paris to Prussians. Crushed 2 months later by McMahon. 20,000 killed.

Communism. Collective ownership of property and industry. Wealth shared according to need. Eventually, “dictatorship of proletariat”.

Communist Manifesto. 1848. Marx and Engels call for Proletariat to control business and government.

Communist Party. USSR. 1918. Name adopted by Bolsheviks for Social Democratic Workers’ Party. Parties started in Britain, USA, Austria, France, Italy, Spain, Germany soon after.

Comnenus. 1081-1185. Byzantine dynasty.

Comoros. 8C Moslem. 1527 Europeans explore. 1886 France. 1975 Independent.

Compass. 2634BC Chinese invention.

Compromise of 1850. Acts to prevent secession of US slave states.

Compte Rendu. 1781. Necker reveals pitiful state of French finances.

Compton, Arthur. 1892-1962. US physicist: C Effect, 1923.

Comte, Auguste. 1798-1857. French Positivist philosopher. Religion belongs to primitive society. Positivism 1830. Tejada Law.

Comunero. 1520-1. Spanish Republican rebellion. Crushed, but effected policy changes.

Comus. Greek god of mirth and joy.

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

Connecticut Compromise. 1787 Constitutional Convention. Bicameral US Congress.

Conscription. 1793. Carnot devised first compulsory military service for France. Used in Egypt’s Old Kingdom.

Copland, Aaron. 1900-90. US composer blending Jewish, folk, jazz, and Latin influences into a popular style. Experimented with serial techniques.

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