Bangladesh. c200BC Maurya. 4C BC Gupta. 8C Buddhist(E). 12C Hindu. 13C Turk. 1576-Mogul. 1857 Britain. 1947 = East Pakistan. 1971 Independent = Bangladesh.

Basil, St. 330-79. Founder of Basilians...Greek Orthodox Church.

Bassein, Treaty. 1802. Indian alliance with British East India Company leads to second Maratha War.

Breasted, James. 1865-1935. US Egyptologist. Ancient Records 1906.

British East Africa. 1888. Former protectorates. Kenya, Uganda, Zanzibar, Tanganyika.

British East India Company. 1600-1858. For trade with Asia. Took political control.

Bronze Age. 3500-500BC. First uses of metal for arms and tools. Began in Near East. Society more structured. Specialization begins. Iron Age.

Brundisium, Treaty. 40BC. Antony rules east, Octavian rules west of Roman Empire.

Byzantine Empire. 395-1453. Eastern Roman Empire. Reduced by: 634 Caliphate Empire, 1042 Seljuks, 1204 Crusaders’ Latin Empire, 1453 Ottoman Empire.

Cairo Conferences. 1943. Allies discuss far east policies with Chiang Kai-shek.

Centaurs. Mythical beasts, half man, half horse.

Cerularius, Michael. c1000-59. Patriarch of Constantinople 1043-58. East-West Schism.

Chimera. Greek lion/goat/dragon beast.

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.

Collins, Michael. 1890-1922. Led Easter Rebellion. First Prime Minister of Irish Free State 1922. Assassinated by extremists.

De Valéra, Eamon. 1882-1975. US/Irish mathematician. Led Easter Uprising. Led Sinn Fein, 1917-26. Founded Fianna Fáil 1926. Prime Minister of Irish Free State, 1931~59. President 59-73.

Deogaon, Treaty. 1803. Marathans cedes land, power to British East India Co.

Diocletian. 245-316. Roman Emperor of the East 284, West 285. Abdicated 305. Regained Britain, Persia. Persecuted Christians. Condemned alchemy 297.

Drang nach Osten. Historic German wish for eastward expansion cited by Hitler.

Druze. Small Middle East Shi’ite sect worshipping al-Hakim.

Dutch East India Company. 1602-1798. Trade, colonies in Orient. Controlled Ceylon, Cape Colony, Jakarta.

East Anglia. 6C Anglo-Saxon kingdom. c870 Denmark. 917 England.

East India Act. 1784. India Act.

East-West Schism. 1054. Separation of Roman and Eastern Catholic churches over filioque.

Easter Rebellion. 1916. Ireland. Irish Free State.

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