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Servile Wars

(Encyclopedia)Servile Wars, name given in Roman history to three slave uprisings. The agricultural slaves were exploited by their owners, who had extreme powers and were never averse to using them. The first of the...

Star Wars

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

Sikh Wars

(Encyclopedia)Sikh Wars (1845–49), two conflicts preceding the British annexation of the Punjab. By a treaty with the British in 1809, the Sikh ruler of the Punjab, Ranjit Singh, had accepted the Sutlej River as ...

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 ...

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. ...