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• Abdication of Edward VIII — December 1936 abdication of the British king over the Wallis Simpson marriage
• Adolf Hitler — Chancellor and Führer of Nazi Germany 1933–1945
• Africa — Continent subject to European partition and post-war decolonization
• Age of Conflict — Stage 4 of Quigley's seven-stage civilizational model — the era of slowing expansion, class struggle, imperialist wars, and growing irrationality that follows the institutionalization of the instrument of expansion
• Age of Expansion — Stage 3 of Quigley's seven-stage civilizational model — the long growth phase driven by the instrument of expansion, marked by rising production, population, geography, and knowledge
• Agricultural Revolution (Neolithic) — The transition from food-gathering to food-producing societies — Quigley's foundational civilizational shift
• Alexander the Great — King of Macedon, conqueror of the Persian Empire (356–323 BCE)
• Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner — British colonial administrator who reorganized Rhodes's secret society into the Milner Group (1854-1925)
• Alfred Zimmern — Oxford classicist, architect of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (1879-1957)
• The All Souls Network — The Oxford prize-fellowship college that served as the Milner Group's intellectual headquarters and recruiting ground
• Anatolia — The Asian peninsula of modern Turkey
• The Anglo-American Establishment — Quigley's posthumous 1981 monograph on the Milner Group and the Round Table network
• Anthony Eden — British Foreign Secretary three times, Prime Minister during Suez (1897-1977)
• Aristotle — Greek philosopher, founder of the Lyceum (384–322 BCE)
• Arnold J. Toynbee — British historian, RIIA Director of Studies, author of A Study of History
• Arthur Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour — Conservative Prime Minister, Foreign Secretary, Cecil Bloc-Milner Group bridge (1848-1930)
• The Association of Helpers — The outer concentric ring of Rhodes's 1891 secret society, the practical successor to the Society of the Elect
• Athens — Classical Greek city-state; intellectual core of Hellenic civilization
• Atomic Energy Commission — U.S. civilian agency for nuclear development, 1946–1974
• Augustus — First Roman Emperor, founder of the Principate (63 BCE – 14 CE)
• Balkans — South-eastern European peninsula contested between great powers
• Bank of England — Britain's central bank (1694–); in Quigley's framing, the institutional anchor of the City of London and the spine of the international gold-standard system before 1914
• Bank of France — Central bank of France, founded by Napoleon in 1800
• Benito Mussolini — Italian Fascist dictator 1922–1943
• Second Boer War — The 1899–1902 South African war during which Milner gathered the Kindergarten and out of which the Milner Group was organized