Asclepius. Greek god of healing. Killed by Zeus to prevent immortality of man. Son of Apollo.

Aske, Robert. -1537. Led Pilgrimage of Grace against Henrician Reformation.

Aston, Francis. 1877-1945. English physicist. Mass spectrograph.

Atalanta. Greek huntress beaten in race by Hippomenes.

Atatürk (Mustafa Kemal). 1881-1938. Turkish founder, first president, 1923. 1919-22 drove Greeks out. Major reforms to modernize Turkey.

Ate. Greek goddess of mischief.

Athena. Greek goddess of wisdom. = Minerva.

Athens. 3000BC. 6C BC growth. 5C decline. 4C Macedonia (aut). 27 BC Rome. 1458 Ottoman. 1834 Greek capital.

Athos, Mt. 963-. Greek theocracy, site of Orthodox monasteries.

Atlantic Cable. 1866. Telegraphic link between North America and Europe.

Attica. Region around Athens in ancient Greece.

Aubigné, Agrippa d’. 1552-1630. French satirical writer and poet: Tragiques.

Auden, W.H. 1907-73. English/US poet/opera librettist. The Rake’s Progress 1951.

Augsburg League. 1686-9. Holy Roman Empire and allies vs France. Replaced by Grand Alliance.

Augustus II. 1670-1733. King of Poland, 1697-. Provoked Northern War.

Austrian Empire. 1804-67. Slowly disintegrating last remnant of Holy Roman Empire.

Avignon Papacy. 1309-77. Popes from Clement V based in Avignon, France. Great Schism.

Axis Pact. 1936-45. German-Italian Agreement, 1936. Cooperative alliance maintained through WWII. Allied with Spain, 1939; Japan, 1936. Yugoslavia 1941. Tripartite Pact.

Babylonia. c8000BC Tigris-Euphrates Civ’n. 1792-50BC Hammurabi’s emp. c1530 Kassite. 11C Aramaen, Assyrian. 625 Chaldean. 538 Achaemenid. 331BC Alexander.

Bactria. c1500BC Aryan. 545BC Persia. 328BC Alexander. 256BC-140 Graeco-Bactria. Badakhshan. 7C Moslem. 1220 Genghis Khan. Now Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan.

Badakhshan. 255BC-1584. Kingdom in Bactria claiming direct descendance from Alexander the Great.

Baden. 1112 Margravate. 1771 Grand Duchy. 1848 Republic. 1871 German Empire. 1918 Republic. 1934 Germany.

Baker, Benjamin. 1840-1907. English engineer: London Underground 1869. Forth Bridge 1882. Aswan Dam.

Balkan Crisis. 1875-8. Britain, Austria fear Russian expansion. Congress of Berlin.

Balkan Entente. 1934-9. Greece, Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia mutual defence pact.

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