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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...identity. These cultural and political influences from many parts of Asia as well as successive waves ...
7: ...have reached China about 65,000 years ago from [[Africa]]. Early evidence for proto-Chinese [[rice pad...
14: ...he earliest written record of China's past, dates from the [[Shang Dynasty]] in perhaps the [[13th cen...
18: ... around [[2000 BC]] was unearthed. Early markings from this period, found on pottery and shells, have ...
22: ...[[Zhengzhou]] and [[Shangcheng]]. The second set, from the later Shang or Yin period, consists of a la... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
7: ...Since her father's style took heavily inspiration from [[Caravaggio]] during that period, her style wa...
18: ... marry [[Pierantonio Stiattesi]], a modest artist from [[Florence]]. Shortly afterwards the couple mov...
24: ...nd the protection of influential people, starting from Granduke Cosimo II de' [[Medici]] and expecial...
26: ...was rising. The success and the fashion radiating from her figure fueled many voices about her private...
28: From this period we remember the [[La Conversione de... - Silk (8683 bytes)
2: ...rism-like structure, which allows silk cloth to refract incoming light at different angles.
5: ...ese [[culture]] both geographically and socially. From there, silken garments began to reach regions t...
8: ...nt, the [[Middle East]], [[Europe]], and North [[Africa]]. This trade was so extensive that the major ...
11: ...trove to keep the knowledge of sericulture secret from other [[nation]]s, in order to maintain the Chi...
15: ...nd textures, they all differ in one major respect from the domesticated varieties. The cocoons, which ... - Netherlands (35958 bytes)
12: ...motto = ''Je Maintiendrai''<br>([[French language|French]]: "I will maintain")|
14: ...es = [[Dutch language|Dutch]], [[Frisian language|Frisian]] <sup>1</sup> |
40: established_dates = [[Eighty Years' War|From Spain]]<br/>[[May 23]], [[1568]]<br/>[[January ...
64: After gaining formal independence from the [[Spanish Empire]] under [[Philip IV of Spa...
66: ...set-inflation bubble, the [[tulipomania]] of 1636-1637, and, according to Murray Sayle, the world's firs... - Rhode Island (15004 bytes)
42: ...[British Monarchs|King]] of [[England]], and once from the [[Native American]] tribes which lived on t...
44: In 1637 [[Anne Hutchinson]] was banished from [[Massachusetts]] for expressing her beliefs th...
52: ...the thirteen colonies that had complete religious freedom. Under the terms of the charter, only lando...
56: ...e settlers of Portsmouth had purchased their land from his father, [[Massasoit]]. King Philip rebelle...
60: ...less class developed. By 1829, 60% of the state's free white males were ineligible to vote. - Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
3: ...meline of United States history]] concerns events from '''1600 to 1699'''.
11: *[[1608]]-[[France|French]] establish colony at [[Quebec]]
18: *[[1619]]-First African [[slavery|slaves]] arrive at Jamestown
22: *[[1620]]-[[Pilgrims]] arrive from [[Plymouth]], England, on the ''[[Mayflower (sh...
30: ...r Williams (theologian)|Roger Williams]] banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
2: ...Hobbes (portrait).jpg|thumb|Thomas Hobbes: detail from a portrait by John Michael Wright ([[National P...
10: ...t by a young man named Robert Latimer, a graduate from [[Oxford University]]. Hobbes was a good pupil ...
16: ...aris, held together by [[Marin Mersenne]]. From [[1637]] he considered himself a philosopher.
20: ...tion was then understood. He then singled out Man from the realm of Nature. Then, in another treatise,...
22: ...country riven with discontent which disrupted him from the orderly execution of his philosophic plan. ... - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
1: ... to his writings, which have been closely studied from his time down to the present day. Descartes wa...
4: ...mena. In his theology, he insists on the absolute freedom of God’s act of creation.
6: ..., later advocated by [[Baruch Spinoza]] and [[Gottfried Leibniz]], and opposed by the [[empiricist]] s...
11: ...in [[La Haye en Touraine]], [[Indre-et-Loire]], [[France]]. When he was 1 year old, his mother died of...
14: ... whatever came my way so as to derive some profit from it. (Descartes, ''Discourse on the Method of Ri... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
9: *[[Jacob Friedrich von Abel]], (1751-1829)
55: *[[Francesco Algarotti]], (1712-1764)
62: *[[Henri-Fr餩ric Amiel]], (1821-1881)
109: *[[Georg Anton Friedrich Ast]], (1778-1841)
122: *[[Alfred Ayer|Alfred Jules Ayer]], (1910-1989){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R... - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
5: ...t known system of classifying forms of life comes from the Greek philosopher [[Aristotle]], who classi...
11: ...Malpighi]] (1628–1694), [[Jan Swammerdam]] (1637–1680), and [[Robert Hooke]] (1635–170...
13: ...ding to similarities and differences that emerged from observation.
19: ...as [[binomial nomenclature]], and the name formed from the two parts is known as the [[scientific name...
23: ...p at a given layer is composed of a set of groups from the layer directly below. Simply knowing the tw... - Vernier scale (1907 bytes)
1: ...ch]] mathematician [[Pierre Vernier]] ([[1580]]-[[1637]]). In some languages, this device is called a ''... - Scientific method (40667 bytes)
1: ... the form of [[theory|theories]]. [[Prediction]]s from these theories are tested by [[experiment]]. If...
6: ... of methods for scientific inquiry is indivisible from the development of science.
9: ...hilosophical ideas of this time were mostly freed from the constraints of everyday phenomena and commo...
13: ...dent ''verification''. In the [[17th century]], [[Francis Bacon]] attempted to describe a rational pro...
15: ...h wings, but rather hung with weights, to keep it from leaping and flying. Now this has never been don... - Opera (25153 bytes)
2: [[Image:GarnierOperaParis.jpg|frame|The foyer of [[Charles Garnier (architect)|Cha...
5: ...are accompanied by a [[musical ensemble]] ranging from a small instrumental ensemble to a full symphon...
7: ...ten part of an opera performance, particularly in France.
13: ...ntly performed of the genre in a context separate from its accompanying play, and has been transcribed...
20: ...n. A later work by Peri, ''[[Euridice]]'', dating from 1600, is the first opera score to have survived... - New Sweden (3805 bytes)
2: ...nnsylvania]] and [[Maryland]]. The colony existed from [[March 29]], [[1638]], to [[September]] [[1655...
6: ...obacco) and fur trading colony to bypass [[France|French]] and [[Great Britain|British]] merchants. Th...
8: ...aunched from the port of [[Gothenburg]] in late [[1637]]. [[Samuel Blommaert]] assisted with the fitting...
10: In [[1643]], the company expanded along the river from Fort Christina; and established [[Fort Nya Elfs...
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