Classicism. Art and architecture in imitation of Greek and Roman styles. Neoclassical.

Clay, Henry. 1777-1852. “Great Pacificator”. US statesman. Missouri Compromise.

Clement V. Pope 1305-14. Moved papacy to Avignon. Dissolved Knights Templar 1312. Prohibited usury.

Clytemnestra. Wife and murderess of Agamemnon. Killed by her children, Orestes and Electra.

Coalition, Wars of. 1792-1815. European powers oppose France’s revolutionary ideas and expansion. French Revolutionary Wars. Napoleonic Wars. Third Coalition War.

Cocoa. 1494 brought to Europe by Columbus.

Cocteau, Jean. 1889-1963. Montparnasse poet. Provençale figurative painter. Filmmaker.

Code of Hammurabi. 18C BC. Written legal code.

Coffee. 16/17C to Europe. 1650 Oxford. First coffee house.

Coke, Edward. 1552-1634. English jurist. Defended Common Law. Prosecuted Raleigh.

Cole, George. 1889-1959. English economist/journalist: The Intelligent Man’s Guide Through World Chaos.

Colonial Wars. 1834-1902. British wars against Sikhs, Burmese, Crimeans, Boers.

Colossus of Rhodes. 280-224BC. 30m bronze statue of Helios. Collapsed during earthquake. A 7 Wonder.

Comenius, John. 1592-1670. Czech founder of direct method of language education. First use of pictures.

COMINFORM. Communist Information Bureau. 1947-56. Coordinated European party activities.

Comoros. 8C Moslem. 1527 Europeans explore. 1886 France. 1975 Independent.

Compton, Arthur. 1892-1962. US physicist: C Effect, 1923.

Concentration Camps. 1862-65 USA. 1899-1902. British internment of Boers in South Africa. 1922-91. USSR. 1933-45 Nazi prisons for extermination and slave labour. Buchenwald. Auschwitz. Dachau. 1942-6 US Relocation Centers. 1942-46 Canada. 1950’s Kenya. 1973 Chile.

Conciliarism. 12C-. General Council has greater power than pope. Popular during Great Schism.

Concini, Concino. -1617. Italian favourite of Marie de Medici. Marshal of France. Executed.

Concordat. Ecclesiastic treaty between church and state.

Concordat. 1801-1905. Regulation of French church instituted by Napoleon.

Condé. 1530-1866. Branch of French Bourbons. Revolt 1615.

Condé, Louis I de Bourbon, Prince. 1530-60. Led Amboise Conspiracy.

Confucius. 551-479BC. Chinese philosopher and moralist. Advocated reason, love and respect for others over supernatural. Chinese Exam. Wu Ching.

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