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Persian Wars

(Encyclopedia)Persian Wars, 500 b.c.–449 b.c., series of conflicts fought between Greek states and the Persian Empire. The writings of Herodotus, who was born c.484 b.c., are the great source of knowledge of the ...

Opium Wars

(Encyclopedia)Opium Wars, 1839–42 and 1856–60, two wars between China and Western countries that marked the shift of wealth and power from East to West. The first was between Great Britain and China. Early in t...

Star Wars

(Encyclopedia)Star Wars: see Strategic Defense Initiative. ...

Bishops' Wars

(Encyclopedia)Bishops' Wars, two brief campaigns (1639 and 1640) of the Scots against Charles I of England. When Charles attempted to strengthen episcopacy in Scotland by imposing (1637) the English Book of Common ...

Dutch West India Company

(Encyclopedia)Dutch West India Company, trading and colonizing company, chartered by the States-General of the Dutch republic in 1621 and organized in 1623. Through its agency New Netherland was founded. The phenom...

Dutch East Indies

(Encyclopedia)Dutch East Indies: see Indonesia. ...

Dutch elm disease

(Encyclopedia)Dutch elm disease: see diseases of plants; elm. ...

Dutch New Guinea

(Encyclopedia)Dutch New Guinea: see Papua, Indonesia. ...

Dutch Reformed Church

(Encyclopedia)Dutch Reformed Church: see Reformed Church in America. ...

Dutch West Indies

(Encyclopedia)Dutch West Indies: see Netherlands Antilles. ...