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Pym, John. 1583-1643. English Puritan. Led Long Parliament. Civil War.
Pyramus and Thisbe. Legendary Babylonian lovers of Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
Quartering Acts. 1765-70,74. Forced Colonies to pay for British troops stationed there. Intolerable Acts. Stamp Act.
Quebec. 1534 Cartier discovers. 1608 French colony. 1763 British. 1867 Founding province of Canada.
Quietism. 1696. Mystic religious movements. Passivity allows communication with God. Hinduism. Sufism. Molinos. Guyon. Fenelon. Soul in passive state is saved by divine spirit.
Quintuple Treaty. 1839. Britain, France, Prussia, Austria, Russia guaranteed Belgian integrity. London Treaty.
Raleigh, Walter. 1554-1618. English colonist in Virginia. Introduced tobacco, potato to Europe. Beheaded.
Rambouillet, Marquise de. 1588-1665. First Paris literary salon.
Rationalism. All truth can be arrived at through thought alone. vs Empiricism. Descartes. Spinoza.
Red River Colony. 1812 Selkirk. Wars vs Métis -1821. 1836 Hudson Bay Co. 1870 =Manitoba. Riel. Seven Oaks.
Reginald of Châtillon. -1187. Crusade leader. Broken truce led to new war. Kingdom of Jerusalem lost.
Regulator Movement. 1764-71. American colonists in NC vs tax, corruption.
Repartimiento. c1500-1820. Spanish-American colonists recruit Indians for forced labour.
Rhodes, Cecil. 1853-1902. English colonialist in South Africa. Endowed Oxford scholarship to preserve Empire.
Richardson, Samuel. 1689-1761. English novelist using personal letters. Influenced novel form: Pamela 1740 Clarissa 1747 (at 1M words, the longest English novel).
Riel, Louis. 1844-85. Organized Métis rebellions in Red River 1869-70, Saskatchewan 1884-5. Hung.
Roanoke Colony. 1587. English colony of 117 settlers in Virginia disappeared. Raleigh.
Rockingham, 2nd Marquess. 1730-82. British Prime Minister. Tried to make peace with American colonies.
Roland de la Platière, Jeanne. 1754-93. French wife of Jean. Held revolutionary salons. Executed.
Rolfe, John. 1585-1622. English colonist in Virginia. Married Pocahontas.
Rollo. 860-932. Norse pirate. Colonized Normandy 911. 885 Rolled boats around Paris when seige failed.
SA. 1921-34. Brownshirts. Nazi force for breaking up rival party meetings. Purged on Night of Long the Knives.
Sabah. 1888 British protectorate = North Borneo. 1946 British Crown Colony. 1963 Malaysia.
Salon des Refusés. 1863. Paris exhibition of paintings by Cezanne, Manet, Whistler refused by Academy. Déjeuner sur l’herbe.