Comte, Auguste. 1798-1857. French Positivist philosopher. Religion belongs to primitive society. Positivism 1830. Tejada Law.

Comunero. 1520-1. Spanish Republican rebellion. Crushed, but effected policy changes.

Comus. Greek god of mirth and joy.

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.

Conceptualism. Reality has no objective existence; it is a concept in the mind. Abelard.

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.

Concord, Book of. 1580. Synthesis of creeds and catechisms of Lutheranism.

Concordat. Ecclesiastic treaty between church and state.

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

Concorde. 1962-76. French/British joint development of a supersonic airliner.

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

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

Condillac, Étienne de. 1715-80. French sensualist philosopher. Locke follower.

Condorcet, Marquis de. 1743-94. French philosopher. Perfectibility of mankind.

Condottieri. 14-15C. Ineffective Italian mercenary leaders.

Confederacy. 1861-5. Rebel US government in American Civil War.

Confederation. 1867. United Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Upper and Lower Canada as Dominion of Canada.

Confederation Group. 19C Canadian nationalistic poets. Carmen.

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

Congo. 1482 Portugal explore. 1880 French settle(N). 1885 Belgium(S). 1910 «French Equatorial Africa. 1960 Independent. 1971 =Zaire. 1997 =Democratic Republic of Congo. Mobutu.

Congo Conference. 1884. Bismarck mediates. Congo comes under Belgian sovereignty.

Congregationalism. 1581-. Protestant Church organization of local churches governing themselves. Browne.

Congress, US. Senate and House of Representatives. Legislative branch of government.

Congress (I) Party. 1978-. Split from Congress Party under Indira Gandhi.

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