Bowring, Treaty. 1855. Opened Siam to British trade.

British North America Act. 1867. Granted Canada self-governing Dominion status.

Brunel, Marc. 1769-1849. French engineer. Thames tunnel 1825-42.

Bucket Shop. Brokerage house that attempted to profit by delaying placing orders. Now illegal.

Buddha. c566-486BC. Gautama, Siddhartha. Indian prince, Buddhism founder.

Cadiz. 1100BC Phoenicia...501BC Carthage. 206BC Rome. 409 Visigoth. 535 Byzantine. 711 Moors 1262 Castile.

Calamity Jane. (Martha Jane Burke). 1852-1903. US sharpshooter frontierswoman.

Cape Colony. 1806 British colony. South Africa.

Cape of Good Hope. Bantu. 1652 Dutch. 1814 British Cape Colony. 1910 Province, South Africa.

Capella, Martianus. 4-5C. Carthaginian liberal arts curriculum. Influential through Middle Ages.

Capetians. Dynasty that ruled France 987-1328.

Capitalism. System of private ownership of property and industry for profit. Free enterprise. Smith.

Carthage. 814BC Phoenician colony. Dido. 574BC Independence after Tyre falls. 480BC Republic. 264-146BC Punic Wars. Hannibal. 146BC Rome razes, rebuilds. 439 Vandals plunder. 533 Byzantine. 705 Moslem. Tunis.

Catalonia. Iberians. Colonized by Phoenicia, Greece, Carthage. c200BC Rome. 5C Goths. 712 Moors. c788 Charlemagne. 1137 +Aragon. 1932 Autonomous. 1939 Spain.

Cathars. 11-14C. Christian Gnostic heretic sect. Albigens. 1030 burned in Italy.

Cathay. Medieval name for N China. Polo.

Catulus, Gaius. 3C BC. Roman General. Defeated Carthage. Ended First Punic War.

Chakkri. 1782-. Dynasty ruling Thailand.

Christie, Agatha. 1890-1976. English mystery writer. Mousetrap 1952.

Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel. 1875-1912. English composer: Hiawatha Trilogy 1898-1900.

Common Law. Based on precedents derived from reason rather than a code of statutes. Originally English.

Conciliarism. 12C-. General Council has greater power than pope. Popular during Great Schism.

Corsica. 6C BC Phocaean. Etruscan. 278BC Carthage. 259BC Rome. 5C Vandal. 6C Byzantine. 8C Papacy. 10C Saracen. 1077 Pisa. 1296 Genoa, Aragon dispute. 1569 Genoa. 1768 France. 1794 Britain. 1796 France 1814-15 British occupy. WWII Germans occupy.

Counter-Reformation. 1517-1622. Catholic reform that followed the Reformation. Trent.

Crookes, William. 1832-1919. English physicist. Invented Crookes tube. Discovered thallium. Radiometer.

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