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Gabelle
Salt tax in France.
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Garter, Order of the
British award for knights
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Germinal
meaning seedtime. Seventh month in the French
Republican Calendar, from March 21 to April 19.
See also
GLOSSARY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION:
FRENCH REPUBLICAN CALENDAR |
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Girondin
A moderate revolutionary in France between 1791 and
1793.
See also
GLOSSARY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION:
GIRONDIN |
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Glasnost & Perestroika
Gorbachev's openness and restructuring.
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Gold Rush in North America
Gold discoveries
in the 1800s in the U.S. and Canada, followed by major
nugget craze.
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Governments, Systems of
A to Z index of the main forms of
governments. Origin of the name. Examples in history.
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Granicus
River
in today's Turkey.
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Great Depression
Worst decade for the economy worldwide.
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Great Wall of China
UNESCO World Heritage site but not
visible from the moon.
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Guerrilla Warfare
If you are a guerrilla fighter, also spelled
guerilla, you are a person who engages in irregular
warfare. Most likely, you are a member of an independent unit
carrying out harassment and sabotage.
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Guillotine
A device for beheading, perfected by the
French. Curiously, not invented by Dr. Guillotine.
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Hanseatic League
Commercial alliance between towns in northern Germany.
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Helots
The Helots were conquered Messenians. Messenia was conquered
by the Spartans, who started their conquest around 735 BC.
The Spartans made the Messenians their slaves.
The world Helots derives
from the Greek world Heilotes, which is the plural of
Heilos, which in turn is commonly associated with the
Laconian town Helos that was reduced to serfdom by
Sparta.
The word Helots could also
be related to the Greek word halonai, which means
be captured.
Here you can find the map location
of Messenia. Look for the boxes BC-bc. You will find the
town Helos underneath the letter N of Laconia.
Ancient
Greece (south)
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Helvetic
Republic
The French idea of Switzerland. During the
French Revolutionary Wars, France decided to visit /
invade the Swiss and set up a new government, the Helvetic
Republic, which lasted from 1798 - 1803.
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Hindenburg (aircraft)
World's largest rigid airship.
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Holocaust
Systematic killing of Nazi opponents during
World
War II.
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Holy See
The Holy See is the Vatican. |
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Hudson's Bay Company
Fur trade and much more in Canada.
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Huguenots
French Protestants.
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Human Rights
Something common sense should dictate.
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Hundred Days, The
Napoleon's last three months or FDR's first three months.
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