McCrae, John. 1872-1918. Canadian physician/poet. In Flanders Fields.

McKinley, William. 1843-1901. US President 1897-. Spanish American War. Gained Hawaii. Assassinated by anarchist.

McLuhan, Marshall. 1911-80. Canadian author on effect of media on society. Gutenberg Galaxy. -“Global Village”.-“Medium is the message”.

McNaughton, Andrew. 1887-1966. Canadian WWII commander in England. Invented direction finder.

McPherson, Aimee Semple.1890-1944. Controversial Canadian/US Pentacostal evangelist.

Mead, Margaret. 1901-78. US anthropologist. Coming of Age in Samoa 1928.

Mecca. Holy city of Islam. Muhammad’s birthplace. Captured by Muhammad 630. Ka’bah.

Medea. Greek sorceress who helped Jason get fleece.

Medici. Merchant family. Ruled Florence 1434~1737. Patron of Italian Renaissance arts. Catherine. Marie. Popes Leo X, Clement VII, Leo XI.

Medieval Art. 10-13C. Religious Gothic.

Medieval Music. 476-13C. Church oriented. Evolved from Plainsong to polyphonic.

Medway, Battle. 1667. Dutch destroy British fleet. Breda Treaty.

Megaliths. Neolithic monuments of very large stones. Stonehenge.

Megalopolis. 370-222BC. Greek city destroyed by Spartan Cleomenes III.

Megarian. 4C BC. School of philosophy founded by Eucleides. Good is a single quality by many names.

Mehmed II. 1432-81. Ottoman sultan 1451~. Captured Constantinople 1453, ending Byzantine Empire. Conquered Anatolia, Greece, Aegean, most of Syria. Re-established Ottoman Empire.

Meiji. 1852-1912. Japanese Empire. 1867-. Modernization. New constitution. Abolished feudalism. Made Japan a world power. Ended isolationism. Tokugawa.

Meisenbach. Half tone engraving 1881.

Melanchthon, Philip. 1497-1560. German Lutheran theologian educationist. Dogmatic Protestant 1521, introduced term. Augsburg Confession 1530. Ethics 1538.

Melba, Nellie. 1861-1931. Australian operatic soprano.

Melchites. 451-. Middle Eastern Roman Catholic sect with rites in Arabic, affirming Christ’s dual human/divine nature.

Melfi, Constitution of. 1231. Administrative law code of Sicily. Basis of later law codes.

Melilla. Spanish city on Moroccan coast conquered 1497. Berbers.

Mellon, Andrew. 1855-1937. US financier. Donated art, money to found National Gallery.

Melville, Herman. 1819-91. US novelist. Moby Dick 1851.

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