Theophrastus. c372-287BC. Greek philosopher. Led Peripatetics after Aristotle.

Thespis. 6C BC The founder of Greek tragedy. Created actor to dialog with chorus.

Thessaloniki. 315BC Rebuilt by Cassander. 168BC Rome...Byzantine. 42BC Independent. 8-12C Many conquerers. 904 Saracen. 1185 Norman. 1246 Byzantine. 1423 Venice. 1430 Turks. 1913 Greece.

Thibaut IV. 1201-53. Trouvère count of Champagne, Brie, King of Navarre.

Thomson, Tom. 1877-1917. Canadian landscape painter. Influenced Group of Seven.

Thrace. Region of SE Balkan peninsula. c700BC Greek colonies. c512-480BC Persia. 4C BC Macedonia. 1C BC Rome...Byzantine. 7C Bulgaria(N). 1453 Ottoman. Post WWI split Turkey/Greece/Bulgaria.

Thucydides. 5C BC. Greek historian of Peloponnesian Wars. Objective historical science.

Thule. Northern island discovered by Greeks 4C BC. Iceland, Shetlands or Norway?

Ticonderoga, Battle. 1775. Green Mountain Boys defeat British, capture Fort Ticonderoga.

Tigranes I. the Great. c104-55BC. King c95-. Armenia becomes strongest Eastern Roman state.

Tigris-Euphrates. SW Asian river system. Assyrian, Chaldean civilizations.

Tilly, Graf von. 1559-1632. Flemish commander of Catholic League in Thirty Years War.

Tissaphernes. -395BC. Persian satrap. Allied with Sparta. Reconquered Greek cities in Asia Minor.

Tithonus. Prince endowed with immortality, but not eternal youth. Became grasshopper.

Tokugawa Mitsukuni. 1628-1700. Feudal leader, key to History of Great Japan 1658-1906.

Tonkin Resolution. 1964. Congress approves US forces in Vietnam.

Trades Union Congress. TUC. 1868. Organization of British unions sponsoring Labour Party. ICFTU.

Transvaal. Bantu. 1836 Boers settle. Great Trek. 1855 South African Republic. 1877 British. 1881 Self-government. 1900 British. 1907 Self-governed. 1910 Union of South Africa.

Triennial Act. 1640. Charles I agrees to call parliament every 3 years. 1694. New election every 3 years.

Triptolemus. Greek hero, inventor of the plough.

Triton. Greek merman demigod.

Trivium. Grammar, rhetoric, logic. Quadrivium.

Trojan War. c1184BC. 10 Year siege to retrieve Helen taken by Paris to Troy. Trojan Horse leads to Greek victory.

Trouvères. 11-13C. Lyric poets of north France. Imitated troubadours.

Troy. Asia Minor city settled c3000BC. Besieged for 10 yrs and destroyed by Greeks 1184BC. Trojan War. 7C BC-4C = Ilion.

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