Two Thousand Words. 1968. Czech proclamation supporting Dubcek reforms prompts Russian Invasion.

Tyche. Greek goddess of chance. =Fortuna.

Tyler, Wat. -1381. Led English Peasants’ Revolt vs taxation 1381. Executed.

Tylor, Edward. 1832-1917. British founder of cultural anthropology.

Tyndale, William. 1494-1536. English Protestant martyr. First English language bible.

Tyrant. Originally any Greek ruler who seized power illegally. 5CBC- came to signify a cruel ruler.

Tyre. c2000BC Phoenicia. 14C Egypt. 9C Founded Carthage. 8C Assyria. 538 Persia. 332 Alexander...Seleucid. 125 Autonomous. 68BC Rome. 636 Moslem. 1124 Kingdom of Jerusalem. 1291 Mameluks destroy.

Tyrrell, George. 1861-1909. British Jesuit Modernist. Applied historical methods to theology. Excommunicated.

Tz’u-hsi. 1835-1908. Dowager empress of China 1861-. Regent for T’ung-chi. Resisted reforms. Boxer Rebellion.

Uccello, Paolo. 1397-1475. Florentine Gothic/Renaissance painter. Perspective pioneer. Flood 1447.

Udall, Nicholas. c1505-56. English dramatist.Ralph Roister Doister 1553. First English secular play, comedy.

Uesugi. 15C-1868. Japanese warrior clan ruling Honshu. Samurai.

Uganda. 1844 Arab traders reach. 1862 British explore. 1894 British protectorate. 1962 Independent. Amin.

Ugolino della Gherardesca. -1289. Italian Guelf noble. Executed by starvation for treason.

Uighur Empire. 8-9C. Turkic Sunni peoples of Inner Asia.

Ukraine. 3C Ostrogoths. Rus. 1240 Golden Horde. 1392 Lithuania. 1569 Poland. 1648 Independent Cossack state. 1654 Muscovy protectorate. 1772 Russia. 1918 Independent. 1923 USSR. 1991 Independent. CIS.

Ulbricht, Walter. 1893-1973. East German Stalinist General Secretary 1950-71. Head of State 1960-. Ordered Berlin Wall.

Ulpian. -228. Roman prefect. Writings were source for Justinian’s Digest.

Ulster. 5C Independent kingdom. 1171 De Courci conquers for England. 1594-1601 Failed rebellion. 1610 Presbyterian Scots settle. 1920 Northern Ireland.

Ulster Troubles. 1969-. Unionist attack on civil rights march led to revival of hostilities.

Ultraismo. 1918-30. Spanish Symbolist poetry movement. Free verse, daring imagery.

Ultramontanism. 15-19C. Roman Catholic movement for papal authority. Gallicanism.

Ulysses. King of Ithaca. =Greek Odysseus.

Umberto I. 1844-1900. 2nd king of Italy 1878-. Assassinated by anarchists.

Umberto II. 1904-83. Last king of Italy 1946.

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