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Capella, Martianus. 4-5C. Carthaginian liberal arts curriculum. Influential through Middle Ages.
Court of Miracles. In Middle Ages in Paris, area where beggars lived at night, shedding their wooden legs, etc.
Middle Ages. 395-1492. Collapse of Rome to Columbus. Rise of Church power, modern European states. Dark Ages.
Place de Grève. -1830 Meeting place for Paris unemployed in Middle Ages.
Saracens. Moslems in the Middle Ages. Caliphate Empire.
Unicorn. Mythical subject of art 400BC-Middle Ages.
Cheever, John. 1912-82. US writer of middle-class America. Wapshot Chronicle 1957.
Druze. Small Middle East Shi’ite sect worshipping al-Hakim.
Egypt. 3100BC Menes unites. 2780 Old Kingdom. 2600 First pyramid. 2040 Middle Kingdom. 1570 New Kingdom. 663 Assyria. 525 Persia. 332 Alexander...323 Ptolemy. 30BC Rome...395 Byzantine. 642 Moslem. 1250 Mameluk. 1517 Ottoman. 1798 Napoleon. 1805 Ottoman. 1882 British occupy. 1914 British protectorate. 1922 Indepedent monarchy. 1952 Coup. 1953 Republic. 1958-61 UAR.
Fatimid. 909-1171. N African, Middle East Shi’ite Empire.
Inns of Court. British apprenticeship and appointment of barristers. Temple, Lincoln 13C. Gray’s 1295. Inner 1326. Middle 1404. 1443-1876 Serjeant’s.
Intelligentsia. 19C. Educated middle class Russians seeking reform.
Islam. =Muhammadism. 7C-. Monotheistic religion based on Koran. 1/6 of world’s population, especially north Africa, Middle East, SW Asia. Sunni. Shi’ite. Caliphate Empire.
Lotharingia. 843-870. Middle kingdom of split Carolingian Empire. Redivided.
Melchites. 451-. Middle Eastern Roman Catholic sect with rites in Arabic, affirming Christ’s dual human/divine nature.
Mesolithic. c8000-2700BC. Middle stone age between Paleolithic, Neolithic.
Middle English. English language and literature 1100-1500.
Middle Kingdom. 2040-1786BC. Golden age of art and commerce in Egypt.
Middleton, Thomas. 1570-1627. English satiric dramatist. Changeling 1622. Woman Beware Women 1621.
Midgard. Norse middle earth. Home of the human race.
Orthodox Church, Eastern. 1054-. Autonomous Christian churches of Middle East, Eastern Europe, Russia using Byzantine rite. East-West Schism.
Qaddafi, Muammar. 1942-. Radical nationalist Libyan dictator 1969- after deposing Idris I. Nationalized oil industry 1973. Middle East terrorist supporter.
Sesostris I. Pharaoh 1971-1928BC. Led Egypt to prosperity. Middle Kingdom.
Turks. Central Asian tribe. 11-13C came to Middle East. Built Ottoman Empire. Seljuks.
Whig. 1679-19C. British political party =Liberal. Originally to oppose James II. Came to represent wealthy middle class. Tory.