Machiavellian - Having the qualities seen by Niccolò Machiavelli as ideal for a ruler; using ruthless authoritarian tactics to maintain power.
Manchurian Incident(1931) - Japan's military accused Chinese dissidents of blowing up a sectin of a Japanese railroad in Manchuria, thus providing an excuse for the Japanese annexation of Manchuria.
Mannerism - Art after the High Renaissance in reaction to it, using exaggeration or distortion instead of balance and proportion.
Manor - The local jurisdiction of a lord over which he has legal and economic power (feudalism).
Marquis de Condorcet(1743-1794) - French philosopher and mathematician, inventor of the Condorcet method, a voting system.
Marshall Plan - The primary plan of the United States for rebuilding the allied countries of Europe and repelling communism after World War II.
Martin Luther(1483-1546) - German theologian and Augustinian monk who began Lutheranism and initiated the Protestant Reformation.
Meiji Restoration(1866-1869) - Revolution in Japan; replaced the Tokugawa shogunate with imperial rule, and modernized the feudal country; provoked by the opening of Japan's ports to the West.
Mein Kampf(My Struggle) - A book written by Adolf Hitler, combining elements of autobiography with an exposition of Hitler's political ideology of nazism.
Mensheviks - A faction of the Russian revolutionary movement formed 1903 by followers of Julius Martov, who believed in a large party of activists.
Mercantilism - The economic theory that a country's economic prosperity depends on its supply of gold and silver, and that a country should export more than it imports.
Metternich(1773-1858) - Austrian foreign minister during and after the Era of Napoleon.
Michaelangelo(1475-1564) - Renaissance painter, sculptor, poet and architect; most known for the fresco ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Mir - In Russian, "peace," Connotes "community." (ed: relate this to the subject????)
Monasticism - Complete devotion to spiritual work.
Munich Agreement(1938) - An agreement regarding the Munich Crisis; discussed the future of Czechoslovakia and ended up surrendering much of that state to Nazi Germany, standing as a major example of appeasement.
