Cincinnatus. 5C BC. Roman hero and statesman.

Cinna, Lucius. c84BC. Roman consul. Killed Sulla’s supporters. Assassinated.

Cistercians. 1098-. RC monastic order. Rigorous rule. Trappist vows of silence 1664.

Classical. 500-300BC Greek Art. Idealized figure sculptures. Doric, Ionic, Corinthian architecture. Praxiteles. Roman Art. 1C BC-2C AD. Greek forms; added arch. Sculpture: realistic portraits, dramatic bas-relief.

Classicism. Art and architecture in imitation of Greek and Roman styles. Neoclassical.

Claudius I. 10BC-54AD. Roman Emperor 41-. Added Britain to empire.

Clausewitz, Karl von. 1780-1831. German. On War 1816.

Clausius, Rudolph. 1822-88. German physicist. Entropy.

Clay, Henry. 1777-1852. “Great Pacificator”. US statesman. Missouri Compromise.

Clinton, Henry. 1738-95. Commander 1778-81. Blamed for British defeat in American Revolution.

Colchester. Pre-Roman Belgic capital. First Roman settlement in Britain.

Cold War. 1946-90. Alternating crisis and detente between west and east, begun with Russia breaking Potsdam Agreement and creating communist regimes in East Germany and Czechoslovakia.

Coleridge, Samuel. 1772-1834. English Romantic poet: Ancient Mariner 1798, Kubla Khan.

Collins, Wilkie. 1824-89. First British detective novel writer. Woman in White 1860. No Name 1862.

Collins, William. 1721-59. English pre-Romantic lyric poet. Ode to Simplicity.

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

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.

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

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

Conscience, Hendrik. 1812-83. Romantic novelist; developed Flemish novel.

Constantine I. 274-338. Roman Emperor 306-, established Christianity as official religion. Moved capital to Constantinople. United state and church.

Consul. 509BC-. Roman chief magistrate.

Corinth. 1350BC “Founded by Sisyphus”. 243BC Achaean League. 146 Rome destroys, rebuilds 46BC. Byzantine. 1458 Ottoman. 1687 Venice. 1715 Ottoman 1822 Greece.

Corpus Juris Civilis. Developed 529-35. Roman legal code. Influenced European legal systems.

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