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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...union, and was occasionally conquered by external ethnicities, of which many were eventually assimilat...
7: ...n show early habitation; however, any connection between these people and modern Chinese is speculativ...
14: ... the [[Xia Dynasty]], and that this model was perpetuated in the successor [[Shang Dynasty|Shang]] and...
18: ...) to some 4,000 years ago, but this date has not yet been corroborated. Some archaeologists connect t...
22: ...]], [[Zhengzhou]] and [[Shangcheng]]. The second set, from the later Shang or Yin period, consists of ... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
16: ...essive for the violence portrayed, and was interpreted as a wish of psycological revenge for the viole...
20: ...ived to adulthood — following her mother's return to [[Rome]] in [[1621]] and later move to [[Na...
22: ===The Florentine Period ([[1614]]-[[1620]])===
26: ...ntings, that the appearance of the curvy and energetic heroines is similar to her portraits and selfpo...
30: ...and with her husband. These problems lead to her return to [[Rome]] in [[1621]]. - Crocus (3680 bytes)
22: ...Spring Flowers'', by [[Ambrosius Bosschaert]], c. 1620 ([[Louvre Museum]])]]
24: ...he bouquet, similar to varieties still in the market. Bosschaert, working from a preparatory drawing t... - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
7: ...etween Europe and the Middle East was almost completely controlled by traders from the Italian city st...
15: .... Another factor was the centuries long conflict between the Iberians and the Muslims to the south. Fo...
22: ...union of [[Aragon]] and [[Castille]] and the completion of the ''[[reconquista]]'' that the large nati...
24: ...f this line, territory that was still almost completely unknown.
28: ...umnavigation|circumnavigate]] the world upon its return three years later. - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
10: ... 60 KYA: [[Shipbuilding|Ships]] probably used by settlers of [[New Guinea]]
18: * 8700 BC: [[Metalworking]] ([[copper]] pendant in [[Iraq]])
34: * [[39th century BC|3800s BC]]: [[Sweet Track|Engineered roadway]] in [[England]]
51: * [[Alphabet]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
60: * [[Odometer]] : [[Ancient Rome|Rome]]: [[Archimedes]]? - Pilgrims (4873 bytes)
3: ...rsecution at the hands of their countrymen. They settled in [[Leiden]] for 12 years, but by [[1617]] a...
5: ...o a place better suited to them, and in [[1620]] set sail on the ship ''[[Mayflower]]'' from [[Plymout...
8: Another way of explaining the atmosphere in the Netherlands is that some of the exiles, such as Brews...
10: ...lish government was thus trying to plot a course between the position of the [[Roman Catholic]], [[Phi...
12: ..., [[England]] they departed on [[September 6]], [[1620]], with 102 people aboard. Their intended destina... - Mayflower (4074 bytes)
2: ... [[United States|United States of America]]) in [[1620]], leaving Plymouth on [[September 6]] and droppi...
6: ... [[Norway]], [[Germany]] and [[Spain]]. At least between [[1609]] and [[1623]] it was mastered by [[Ch...
8: ...riod to be 90 - 110 feet in length and about 25 feet in width. Careful research went into designing a ...
11: ...ched the Atlantic, but once again were forced to return, to Plymouth. After some reorganisation the v...
13: ...e delay, the settlers did not arrive until the onset of winter, which made for a difficult time for th... - Plymouth Colony (2283 bytes)
1: ...hich had been granted a charter for the land in [[1620]].
3: ...re of [[Cape Cod Bay]] in southeastern [[Massachusetts]].
5: ...colonial ventures in America. When the [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]] got its new charter in [[1691]], P...
9: ...mouth County]], and [[Barnstable County, Massachusetts]].
17: ...of Mayflower passengers who died in the winter of 1620 - 1621]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painters'''.
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|im...
16: *[[Rembrandt]], ([[1606]]-[[1669]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[painter]]
18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian pai...
30: *[[Pieter Aertsen]] ([[1508]]-[[1575]]) - Great Wall of China (10504 bytes)
1: ...nce the [[3rd century BC]] against the raids of [[Ethnic groups in Chinese history|nomadic tribes]] co...
3: ... on the [[Bohai Gulf]] in the east, at the limit between China proper and [[Manchuria]], to [[Lop Nur]...
5: ...he wall could not cross with their [[horses]] or return easily with stolen property.
12: # [[1368]]-[[1620]] (from [[Hongwu Emperor]] until [[Wanli Emperor]...
18: ... the [[Silk Road]]. Jiayu Pass was intended to greet travelers along the [[Silk Road]]. Even though T... - Timeline of microscope technology (1673 bytes)
5: ...sen]], claimed by later writers ([[Pierre Borel]] 1620 - 1671 or 1628 - 1689 and [[Willem Boreel]] 1591 ...
15: ...[[1953]] - [[Frits Zernike]], professor of [[theoretical physics]], [[Nobel Prize]] in Physics for his... - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ..., particularly with [[science]], in [[Western society]].
7: ...Padua]], and served on its faculty teaching [[geometry]], [[mechanics]], and [[astronomy]] until [[161...
10: ...hysics, between the tension and the pitch of a stretched string. Galileo also contributed to the rejec...
12: ...eriments reported in ''[[Two New Sciences]]'' to determine the law of acceleration of falling bodies, ...
14: ...plicated using the methods described by Galileo (Settle, 1961), and the precision of the results was c... - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
2: ...sometimes referred to as "the first [[theory|theoretical]] [[astrophysicist]]", although [[Carl Sagan]...
13: ...is entire life. At age six, he observed the [[Comet]] of [[1577]], writing that he "...was taken by [...
25: ..., [[1618]] Kepler discovered the third law of planetary motion: distance cubed over time squared. He i...
27: In August of [[1620]], Katherine, Kepler's mother, was arrested in Le...
33: ...of Planetary Motion|Kepler's laws]], in which planets move in ellipses, not circles. Using that knowle... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
4: ...thods were connected with occult trends of [[hermeticism]] and [[alchemy]].
8: ... Lord Burghley, the great minister of Queen Elizabeth.
12: At Cambridge he first met the Queen, who was impressed by his precocious in...
14: ...f science brought him to the conclusion that the methods (and thus the results) were erroneous. His re...
16: ... Paris. The disturbed state of government and society in [[France]] under [[Henry III of France|Henry ... - Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
7: *Some time between [[1600]]-[[1650]]-[[Mahican]] [[Confederacy]]...
8: *[[1607]]-Settlement of [[Jamestown, Virginia]]
9: *[[1607]]-Settlement of [[Popham Colony]] in [[Maine]]
13: *[[1609]]-The [[United Provinces]] ([[the Netherlands]]) lays claim to the [[Hudson Valley]] ar...
20: === [[1620s]] === - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
2: ...[[Puritans]] of [[New England]], the gold-hungry settlers of [[Jamestown, Virginia|Jamestown]], and th...
13: ...f Great Britain|Britain]], [[France]], and the [[Netherlands]]. The lands that now make up the [[Unit...
16: ...h Monarchs|Queen]] [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth]]. At this time, however, there was no official ...
25: ...alled [[Virginia]] (named in honor of Queen Elizabeth I, the "Virgin Queen"). It lay on an island in t...
27: ... colonists had little incentive to protect their settlement or work towards its long-term growth. - Jan Brueghel the Younger (1191 bytes)
1: ...mb|260px|Paradise by Jan Brueghel the Younger (c. 1620). Oil on oak. Gem䬤egalerie, Berlin, Germany]]
6: ...allegorical scenes and other works of meticulous detail. Brueghel also copied works by his father and ...
8: ... when his father died of [[cholera]] and swiftly returned to take control of the [[Antwerp (city)|Antw... - Diwali (5677 bytes)
24: ...oung, rich and poor wear new dresses and share sweets. They also burn fire crackers. The North Indian...
26: ... in which he killed the demon [[Ravana]]. It was getting dark, so people along the way lit oil lamps t...
42: ... [[Sikhism|Sikh]]s. During the festival time in [[1620]], the sixth Guru, [[Hargobind Singh]], gained th...
46: ...rackers]], which particularly affects infants, [[pet]]s and older people whose [[sleep]] can also be d...
50: ...ww.google.com/search?q=diwali+greetings diwali greetings]</i> was the 2nd of the top 10 gaining [[Goog... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: ...ted below in [[English language|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteration]] order (by [[surname]]).
16: *[[Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] (Italy, [[1718]] - [[1799]])
29: ...ian)|Alexander Anderson]] (Scotland, [[1582]] - [[1620]])
32: *[[Kenneth Appel]] (? - ?)
33: *[[Petrus Apianus]] (Germany, [[1495]] - [[1552]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ... in the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabetically:'''
5: *[[Pietro d'Abano]], (1250?-1316)
10: *[[Pierre Ab鬡rd]] (or ''Peter Abelard''), (1079-1142){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
73: *[[Anaximenes of Miletus]]{{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
102: *[[David Malet Armstrong]], (born 1926){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
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