China. T’ang(leg). Yü (leg). c1994BC Hsia. c1500 Shang. c1027 Chou. 481 Warring States. 221 Ch’in. 202BC Han. 220 AD Three Kingdoms. 265 Chin. 386 Northern Dyn(N)/420 Southern Dyn(S). 581 Sui rebuild. 618 T’ang. 10C Five dyn/Ten kingdoms. 960 Sung. 1279 Yüan (Mongol). 1368 Ming. 1644 Ch’ing (Manchu). 1912 Republic. 1938-44 Japanese occupation. 1949 People’s Republic.

Warring States. 481-221BC. Chinese period of many small feuding kingdoms.

Aetolian League. 4-2C BC. Confederation of Greek city states, led by Thebes.

American Revolution. 1775-1783. Independence won from Britain, United States of America formed.

Arab League. 1945. Non-aggression and cooperation treaty of Arab states. Collective Treaty of Defence, 1950, to defend against Israeli aggression.

Arai Hakuseki. 1657-1725. Japanese Confucian philosopher, statesman, historian.

Arcadian League. 370-362BC. Union of states vs Sparta.

Baltic States. Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania.

Baltic Wars of Liberation. 1918-20. Established independent states of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania.

Bancroft, George. 1800-91. “Father of American history”. History of United States 1834-74.

Baruch, Bernard. 1870-1965. US financier/elder statesman; adviser to US presidents, Churchill.

Bevin, Ernest. 1881-1951. British labour leader, statesman. TUC. Initiated Colombo Plan.

Borgia, Cesare. 1476-1507. Ruthless Italian Machiavellian statesman. Son of Pope Alexander VI.

Bourgeois, Léon. 1851-1925. French statesman. League of Nations.

Brown, George. 1818-80. Scottish/Canadian statesman. Founded Toronto Globe 1844.

Cato, Marcus. 234-149BC. Roman statesman, censor, writer. Opposed Greek influence.

Chaeronea, Battle. 338BC. Philip of Macedon defeats Greek city-states.

Chamberlain, Austen. 1863-1937. British Statesman. Locarno Pact.

Chamberlain, Neville. 1869-1940. English statesman, Prime Minister, 1937-40. Appeasement Policy towards Hitler. Munich Agreement.

Cincinnatus. 5C BC. Roman hero and statesman.

CIS. 1991. Commonwealth of Independent States led by Russia. Ukraine, Belarus. Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova.

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

Compromise of 1850. Acts to prevent secession of US slave states.

Crassus, Lucius. 140-91BC. Roman statesman, orator. Banished non-citizens, causing Social War.

Croce, Benedetto. 1866-1952. Italian statesman, philosopher. Opposed fascism.

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