Shang. c1766-c1122BC. Chinese dynasty. Earliest verified by archeological evidence. = Yin.

Shapur I. -272. Sassanid king. Captured Roman Emperor Valerian 260.

Shapur II. 309-379. Persian king. Halted Roman invasion. Acquired Armenia.

Shaw, George Bernard. 1856-1950. Irish socialist writer/dramatist of wit and satire. Man and Superman 1903. Pygmalian 1913. St. Joan 1923. Fabian.

Shawnee. American Indians from Ohio defeated at Tippecanoe. Resettled in Oklahoma.

Shays, Daniel. c1747-1825. Led Massachussets farmers in rebellion 1786-7 for lower taxes. Defeated.

Sheba. (Saba’). Biblical country in south Arabia. 10C BC Colonized Ethiopia. 2C BC Overrun by Persia. Bilqis, Queen of Sheba visited Solomon.

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. 1787-1851. English writer. (Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, Godwin). Married Percy Shelley. Frankenstein 1818.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. 1792-1822. English lyric poet. Advocated freedom of thought. Prometheus Unbound 1820.

Shen Nung. c2800BC. Legendary second Chinese Emperor.

Shenandoah. Site of American Civil War battles 1861-5.

Shepard, Alan. 1923-98. First American in space 1961.

Sheraton, Thomas. 1751-1806. English Regency furniture designer.

Shere Ali. 1825-79. Emir of Afghanistan. Defeated in Second Afghan War.

Sheridan, Philip. 1831-88. Union general, captured Shenandoah, forced Lee’s surrender.

Sheridan, Richard. 1751-1816. British comedy dramatist: School for Scandal 1777.

Sherman, William. 1820-91. American Civil War general. -“War is hell”.

Sherman Anti-Trust Act. 1890 US. Prohibits monopolies, restraint of trade.

Sherman Silver Purchase Act. 1890-3. US increases silver purchases. Fears of gold standard abandonment started 1893 Panic.

Sherrington, Charles. 1857-1952. British experimental physiologist.

Shih Huang-ti. c259-210BC. Emperor 246-. Unified China. Great Wall. Burning of Books 213.

Shih Wang. 10 Chinese gods of Hell.

Shi’ite. Major Moslem sect believing in Mahdi at the millenium. Official religion of Iran. Sunni. Fatimid. Assassin. Druze. Ali.

Shiloh, Battle. 1862. Second American Civil War battle. No clear victor.

Shimabara Rebellion. 1637-8. Japanese Catholics vs taxes.

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