Plateresque. 16C Spanish architectural style. Intricate, heavy ornamentation.

Pocahontas. c1595-1617. American Indian friend of colonists. Saved John Smith, married Rolfe.

Pontiac. c1720-69. American Indian chief. Led revolt vs British 1763-6.

Porter, Edwin. 1869/70-1941. US filmmaker. First dramatic editing -Great Train Robbery 1903; First US documentary -The Life of an American Fireman 1903.

Powhatan. c1550-1618. American Indian chief. Pocohantas’ father. Co-op. with settlers.

Prester John. Legendary Christian ruler of vast lands in Africa or Asia.

Pretorius, Marthinus. 1819-1901. First president of South African Republic 1857-71, president. Orange Free State 1859-64.

Puerto Rico. Taino. 1493 Columbus discovers. 1508 Spanish colony. 1898 US (Spanish American War). 1998 rejects statehood.

Purge. 1936-8. Stalin’s trials to eliminate political rivals with fabricated charges. 3 million dead. Executions, forced labour, internal exile.

Putnam. American General at Bunker Hill. “Don’t shoot until you see the whites of their eyes.”

Quebec Act. 1774. Britain creates permanent government for Canada. Tolerance for French Canadians a cause of American Revolution. Intolerable Acts.

Quebec Campaign. 1775-6. American revolutionaries take Montreal. Fail to take Quebec.

Quebec Conference. 1864. Basis of British North America Act. 1943. Allied leaders plan European landings. 1944. Churchill, Roosevelt decide on two war fronts-criticized for allowing Soviets to take Berlin.

Queen Anne’s War. 1702-13. French vs English in North America in War of Spanish Succession.

Rabelais, François. c1483-1553. French satirical writer and humanist. Pantagruel 1532.Gargantua 1534.

Rajatarangini. 1148. Historical chronicle of Kashmir India.

Randolph, Peyton. 1721-75. American Revolutionary, first president of Continental Congress 1774.

Ranke, Leopold von. 1795-1886. German scientific histographer.-“Historical events must be described in their own terms”.

Reconstruction. 1865-77. Post Civil War US. Military control of south. Civil Rights Act. Carpetbaggers.

Régnier, Mathurin. 1573-1613. French satirical poet.

Regulator Movement. 1764-71. American colonists in NC vs tax, corruption.

Relocation Centers. 1942-6. US confines Japanese, Japanese-Americans in Concentration Camps.

Repartimiento. c1500-1820. Spanish-American colonists recruit Indians for forced labour.

Revere, Paul. 1735-1818. Silversmith. American Revolution hero. 1775 Midnight ride warned militia of British troops marching on Concord.

Revolutionary War. American Revolution.

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