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Memphis. 2686-2160BC. Capital of Egyptian Old Kingdom.
Menander. 342-292BC. Greek comic dramatist. Dyscolus 316BC.
Mencius. c371-289BC. Chinese. “2nd” Confucian sage. Man is innately good.
Mencken, H.L. 1880-1956. US iconoclast critic. American Language. Prejudices 1919-27.
Mendel, Gregor. 1822-84. Austrian abbot, botanist. Studied heredity. Genetics 1865.
Mendelssohn, Moses. 1729-86. German Jewish reform philosopher. Nathan the Wise 1779.
Mendelssohn-(Bartholdy), Felix. 1809-47. German Classical Romantic melodic composer. Hebrides 1829.
Mendicant Friars. 13C-. Religious orders depending on alms. Franciscans, Dominicans, Augustinians, Carmelites.
Menelaus. King of Sparta. Husband of Helen of Troy.
Menendez de Aviles, Pedro. 1519-74. Spanish colonist. Massacred Huguenots in Florida 1565.
Menes. c3100BC. Egyptian king. United Upper and Lower Egypt.
Menkure. 2500BC. Smallest Giza pyramid.
Mennonites. 1536. Christian pacifist congregationalist sect based on Anabaptists but teaching conservatism.
Mensheviks. 1903-22. Pacifist minority Social Democratic Workers Party members under Martov split from Bolsheviks. Sought gradual vs revolutionary socialism. Suppressed after October Revolution.
Mentor. Greek tutor of Telemachus, Odysseus’ son.
Mercantilism. 16-18C. Economic policy opposed to Adam Smith’s. Regulation of industry and trade. Large armies. Wealth of nation is its gold.
Mercator, Gerardus. 1512-94. Flemish cartographer. Projection of globe onto flat surface 1569. Atlas 1595.
Merchant Adventurers. 1296-1806. English trading guild with Dutch. =Hamburg Co 1578-.
Merchants of the Steelyards. -1598. German traders in London.
Mercia. 7C-877. Anglo-Saxon kingdom in central England. Conquered by Danes, Wessex.
Mercury. Roman messenger/commerce god.= Hermes.
Meredith, George. 1828-1909. English manners novelist. Intellectual, witty and poetic. Ordeal 1859. Egoist 1879. Dianna of the Crossways 1885.
Mergenthaler, Ottmar. 1854-99. Linotype 1884.
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. 1908-61. French philosopher blending existentialism, Marxism, phenomenology.