Achaeans. Greeks who beseiged Troy. May be originally Mycenaean or Doric.

Albuquerque, Afonso de. 1453-1515. Portuguese conquistador. Expanded empire.

Alexandra, Feodorovna. 1872-1918. Wife of Nicholas II of Russia. Controlled Gov’t during WWI. Cause of Revolution. Executed. Rasputin.

Allende, Salvador. 1908-73. Marxist president of Chile 1970-3.

Altdorfer, Albrecht. c1480-1538. German founder landscape painting.

Alvarado, Pedro de. c1486-1541. Spanish conquerer of Guatemala and El Salvador. Conquistador to Mexico.

Andorra. Ibericbasc. Greeks/Carthaginians/Romans/Visigoths 8C Muslim. 803 Charlemagne. 1133 Bishop of Urgell. 1159 Fiefdom of Foix. 1278- Principality under joint French, Spanish suzerainty. 1993 Constitution. Coprincipality.

Apollodorus. 5C BC. Athenian painter. Shading. No surviving work.

Atlantic Charter. 1941. British-US declaration of 8 principles of peace and security. Endorsed by >25 nations.

Aumale, Henri, duc d’Orleans. 1822-97. French general, Orleanist leader.

Balfour Declaration. 1917. British support Jewish homeland in Palestine. Endorsed 1919 by Allies. Zionism.

Banville, Théodore de. 1823-91. French Parnassian poet. Early Symbolist. Odes funambulesques 1857.

Beaufort, François. 1616-69. Adored Fronde general. King of Halles.

Bellini, Giovanni. c1429-1516. Venetian Renaissance painter. New sensuous realism of form and color. Adoration of the Magi. St. Francis 1480.

Bethmann-Hollweg. 1856-1921. German Chancellor, 1909-17. Tried to mediate before WWI. Overthrown by Hindenburg and Ludendorf.

Big Stick Policy. Roosevelt’s foreign policy. Power as a deterrent. Mahan.

Bischoff, Theodor. 1807-82. Ger: periodic fertility, 1844.

Boccador, Il. -1549. Architect Paris Hotel de Ville, 1533.

Bolivar, Simon. 1783-1830. “Liberator of South America”. 1812- Led rebels in Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia, Peru.

Bosworth Field, Battle. 1485. Tudor victory, ended War of Roses. Richard III killed.

Boveri, Theodor. 1864-1915. German cytologist. Chromosomes, 1904.

Bull Moose. 1912-16. Liberal Republicans for Roosevelt in first US Progressive Party.

Cabot, John. c1450-99. Genoese explorer for England. Discovered Newfoundland, Labrador, 1497.

Canada. 1000 Norse visit. 1497 Cabot explores. 1534 French claim Quebec. 1583 English claim, settle Newfoundland. 1605 French settle Quebec. 1763 British conquer French territory. 1867 Independent Dominion. 1870 +northwest territories. 1871 +British Columbia. 1873 +PEI. 1949 +Newfoundland, Labrador.

Catalan. Romance language of Andorra, NE Spain, SW France.

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