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Medici. Merchant family. Ruled Florence 1434~1737. Patron of Italian Renaissance arts. Catherine. Marie. Popes Leo X, Clement VII, Leo XI.
Mediterranean Agreements. 1887-92. Britain, Spain, Italy, Austria-Hungary. To preserve status quo.
Megaliths. Neolithic monuments of very large stones. Stonehenge.
Megalopolis. 370-222BC. Greek city destroyed by Spartan Cleomenes III.
Melpomene. Greek Muse of tragedy.
Menander. 342-292BC. Greek comic dramatist. Dyscolus 316BC.
Mencius. c371-289BC. Chinese. “2nd” Confucian sage. Man is innately good.
Mencken, H.L. 1880-1956. US iconoclast critic. American Language. Prejudices 1919-27.
Mendel, Gregor. 1822-84. Austrian abbot, botanist. Studied heredity. Genetics 1865.
Mendeleyev, Dmitri. 1834-1907. Russian chemist: periodic classification of the elements 1869.
Mendelssohn-(Bartholdy), Felix. 1809-47. German Classical Romantic melodic composer. Hebrides 1829.
Menderes, Adnan. 1899-1961. Turkish Prime Minister 1950-60. Executed for dictatorship.
Mendicant Friars. 13C-. Religious orders depending on alms. Franciscans, Dominicans, Augustinians, Carmelites.
Mendoza, Pedro de. 1487-1537. Spanish explorer. Founded Buenos Aires 1536.
Menelaus. King of Sparta. Husband of Helen of Troy.
Menendez de Aviles, Pedro. 1519-74. Spanish colonist. Massacred Huguenots in Florida 1565.
Menes. c3100BC. Egyptian king. United Upper and Lower Egypt.
Menkure. 2500BC. Smallest Giza pyramid.
Menno Simmons. 1496-1561. Dutch founder of Mennonites 1536.
Mennonites. 1536. Christian pacifist congregationalist sect based on Anabaptists but teaching conservatism.
Mensheviks. 1903-22. Pacifist minority Social Democratic Workers Party members under Martov split from Bolsheviks. Sought gradual vs revolutionary socialism. Suppressed after October Revolution.
Menshikov, Aleksandr. c1672-1729. Ruled Russia for Catherine I.
Mentor. Greek tutor of Telemachus, Odysseus’ son.
Menzies, Robert. 1894-1978. Australian Liberal Prime Minister 1939-41, 49-66. ANZUS. SEATO.