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Encomienda. 16-18C Spanish system of Indian forced labour.
Epiphenomenalism. Mind exists only as a process within the physical system of matter. Cannot exist without it. Hobbes.
Feudalism. 8-14C. Social system. Lord grants land rights (fiefs) to vassals in return for military or other service. Manorialism. Seignorialism.
Final Solution. 1941-45. Systematic slaughter of Jews and minorities by Nazis. Holocaust.
Fingerprints. 8C Chinese used as signatures. 1870 Indian classification system. 1901 Galton-Henry System, Scotland Yard.
Franco de Colonia. 13C. Systemized musical notation.
Frederick IV. 1671-1730. King of Norway and Denmark, 1699-. Abolished serfdom. Educational system.
Gödel, Kurt. 1906-78. Czech/US logician. Theorem, 1931, asserts that no logical system can prove all its own propositions.
Han Wu Ti. 156-87BC. Chinese Emperor 140-. Confucianism as state religion. Exam system for civil service used to 20C.
Henry II. 1133-1189. Plantagenet king of England 1154-. Common Law system. Married Eleanor of Aquitaine. Angevin Empire. Becket. Rosamund.
Hieroglyphics. c3400BC-500. Egyptian picture writing system. Rosetta Stone.
Hinduism. c 1500BC-. Indian religion. Cycles of life, death, reincarnation. Release by enlightenment. Caste system. Vedas. Root of Buddhism, Jainism, many sects. Upanishads.
Independent Treasury. 1846-1913. US financial system not using private banks. Federal Reserve System.
Jackson, Andrew. 1767-1845. US President 1829-37. General 1812-18. Opposed tarrifs. Retired public debt 1835. Spoils system. Universal white male suffrage. Kitchen Cabinet. New Orleans.
Jagirdar System. 13C-. Indian feudal system granting tax revenues to officials.
Joei Shikimoku. 1232. Established Japanese Shogunate feudal system.
Lagrange, Louis. 1736-1813. French mathematician. Analysis of mechanical systems. Celestial mechanics.
Laplace, Pierre. 1749-1827. French mathematician, astronomer. Celestial mechanics 1779-1825. Solar system origin from condensed gas.
Linnaeus, Carolus. 1707-78. Swedish botanist. Created Latin genus/species naming convention. Systema Naturae 1735. Philosophia Botanica 1751. Classified Homo Sapiens 1766.
List, Friedrich. 1789-1846. German economist. Advocated protectionism. National System of Political Economy 1846.
Lombards. Germanic people. 568 invaded Italy. 808 Jews formed banking system. 14C Commercial banks.
Magnus VI. 1238-80. Norwegian king 1263-. Law system.
Mann, Horace. 1796-1859. US educator. Modern public education system.
Manorial System. (Seignorial). 11-15C. Lord grants peasant rights to till land for fixed payment.
Marxism. Official dogma of Communism. Dialectical Materialism. “Perfect economic system will not require political state.” Marx. Engels. Value is based on labour. Maoism. Leninism.