Senate. 509BC. Roman governing body. 401BC Plebians admitted. 44BC lost most power to Caesar.

Sennacherib. -681BC. Assyrian king. Besieged Jerusalem 701. Destroyed Babylon 689. Rebuilt Nineveh.

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

Shot Heard Around the World. 1775. Battle of Lexington and Concord beginning American Revolution.

Silla, Kingdom. 57BC-935. Korea, united peninsula 668.

Slater, Samuel. 1768-1835. English/US. First American textile factory. Duplicated Arkwright spinning machines 1793.

Smoot-Hawley Act. 1930-37. US tarrifs begin trade war, deepening Depression.

Sonnino, Sidney. 1847-1922. Italian diplomat. Encouraged Italy into WWI. Treaty of London.

Soviet. Basic governing body of USSR. Legislative +executive functions from local to national.

St Petersburg. 1703 Founded by Peter I. 1914 =Petrograd. 1924 =Leningrad. 1991 =St Petersburg again.

Stalingrad, Battle. 1942-3. Russian victory over Germans. Turning point of WWII.

Steen, Jan. 1626-79. Dutch painter. Humourous, everyday scenes. Christening Feast 1664.

Stopes, Marie. 1880-1958. British Family Planning pioneer. First London birth control clinic 1921.

Sussex Incident. 1916. Germans sink passenger ferry hastening US entry into WWI.

Sydenham, Thomas. 1624-89. English doctor. Popularized quinine vs malaria, iron for anemia. Described scarlet fever.

Taylor, Zachary. 1784-1850. US Mexican War hero. President 1849-. “Old Rough and Ready”. Last slave owning- president.

Teschen Dispute. 1919. Poland, Czechoslovakia battle over industrial, coal-mining territory.

Tessin, Nicodemus, the Elder. 1615-81. Swedish architect. Drottningholm 1662.

Theater of the Absurd. 1950-70. Depicts human condition as meaningless. Beckett. Ionesco.

Thirty-nine Articles. 1571 Doctrine of Church of England.

Thoth. Egyptian god of learning. Kept records of dead. Also messenger god = Hermes. Hermetic Texts.

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.

Tolstoy, Lev. 1828-1910. Russian historical novelist. Moralist. Occupied with social reforms; freed his serfs. Founded Christian anarchist religion. War and Peace 1863-9. Anna Karenina 1875-7.

Toscanini, Arturo. 1867-1957. Italian virtuoso conductor of Verdi, Beethoven.

Transcendentalism. 1835-55. US philosophy. Man’s divinity and goodness. Insight over logic. Opposed to authority. Thoreau. Emerson. Channing.

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