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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ... into the Chinese identity. These cultural and political influences from many parts of Asia as well as...
7: ...times, the [[Huang He]] valley began to establish itself as a cultural center, where the first village...
11: ...ological site]]s such as [[Sanxingdui]] and [[Erlitou]] show evidence of a [[Bronze Age]] [[Civilizat...
14: ...asty|Shang]] and [[Zhou Dynasty|Zhou]] dynasties. It is during this period of the ''Three Dynasties'' ...
18: ...Dynasty (1122 BC - 256 BC)|Zhou]] bronze vessel writings, the Xia remains poorly understood. - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
1: ...udith.jpg|right|thumb|250px|''[[Book of Judith|Judith]] Beheading [[Holofernes]]'' (1612-21) Oil on ca...
10: ...a]] school (which had [[Annibale Carracci]] among its major artists).
12: ...is promise and Orazio reported Tassi to the authorities.
14: ... can tell the same story under torture as without it, the story must be true. At the end of the trial ...
16: ...ditta che decapita Oloferne]]'' (''"Giuditta decapitating Oloferne"'') ([[1612]]-13), stored in the [[... - Crocus (3680 bytes)
9: ...'''Crocus''''' }} {{Taxobox authority new | authority = [[Carolus Linnaeus|L.]]}}
17: ...or the crocuses to bloom early, only to suddenly wither and die from a unseasonable "post-winter" fros...
22: ...Spring Flowers'', by [[Ambrosius Bosschaert]], c. 1620 ([[Louvre Museum]])]]
24: ...or a tulip, but its narrow, grasslike leaves give it away.
26: ...]). These are hardy perennial plants, which have little resemblance to the other members of the iris f... - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
1: ...ading routes and partners to feed burgeoning [[capitalism]] in Europe. In the process, Europeans encou...
3: ...hips that could leave the relatively passive [[Mediterranean]] and sail safely on the open [[Atlantic]...
7: ...y further east. The [[Papacy]] also launched expeditions in hopes of finding coverts, or the fabled [[...
9: ...ient from [[1271]] to [[1295]]. His journey was written up as ''[[Travels]]'' and the work was read th...
11: ...st [[Ottoman Empire]] further limited the possibilities for Europeans. - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...ntion into a practical form. Where there is ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded versio...
5: ===[[Paleolithic|Paleolithic Era]]===
36: * 3500 BC: [[Cuneiform script|Writing]] in [[Sumer]]
62: ...century BC|400s BC]]: [[Catapult]] in [[Syracuse, Italy|Syracuse]]
99: ...eglasses]] in [[Italy in the Middle Ages|Northern Italy]] - Pilgrims (4873 bytes)
1: ... home where they could freely practice their [[Puritan]] style of religion and live according to their...
2: ==Experiences and politics in Europe==
3: ...d concern over the Dutch influence on their community convinced many of them to move on, this time to ...
5: ...ayflower]]'' from [[Plymouth]], bound for the [[United States|Americas]]. These people became known a...
8: ...nment began to comply and the exiles decided that it was time to leave. - Mayflower (4074 bytes)
2: ... [[United States|United States of America]]) in [[1620]], leaving Plymouth on [[September 6]] and droppi...
6: ...ithe]] following his death in March [[1623]], and it is likely that the ship was broken up for scrap l...
8: ...d on September 22, 1956), to make it as much like its namesake as possible.
11: ...e ''Speedwell'' developed a leak and had to be refitted at [[Dartmouth, England|Dartmouth]]. On the s...
21: ...of Mayflower passengers who died in the winter of 1620 - 1621]]. See some of the descendants of these Ma... - Plymouth Colony (2283 bytes)
1: ...hich had been granted a charter for the land in [[1620]].
3: ...r]]'', as it lay off-shore. On [[December 21]], [[1620]], 102 [[Pilgrims]] from the [[Mayflower]] landed...
5: ...] got its new charter in [[1691]], Plymouth ended its history as a separate colony.
7: ...ymouth Colony signed a peace treaty with [[Massasoit]] of the [[Wampanoag]]s.
13: *[[British colonization of the Americas]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: ...[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] and [[painter]]
11: *[[Leonardo da Vinci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sculptor and inventor
15: ...llo Santi|Raphael]], ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), [[Italy|Italian]] [[painter]]
90: *[[Edward Mitchell Bannister]] ([[1828]]-[[1901]])
105: *[[Georg Baselitz]] ( [[1938]]-) - Great Wall of China (10504 bytes)
1: ...m raids by the [[Mongol]]s and [[Turkic]] tribes. It was preceded by several walls built since the [[3...
3: ...ss]] on the [[Bohai Gulf]] in the east, at the limit between China proper and [[Manchuria]], to [[Lop ...
5: ...not cross with their [[horses]] or return easily with stolen property.
12: # [[1368]]-[[1620]] (from [[Hongwu Emperor]] until [[Wanli Emperor]...
16: ...l_china2.jpg|thumb|250px|The Great Wall of China. It remains the world's longest manmade structure.]] - Timeline of microscope technology (1673 bytes)
5: ...sen]], claimed by later writers ([[Pierre Borel]] 1620 - 1671 or 1628 - 1689 and [[Willem Boreel]] 1591 ...
6: ...evelops an ''occhiolino'' or compound microscope with a convex and a concave lens.
8: ...) presents, in [[London]], a compound microscope with two convex lenses.
11: ...inceans coins the word ''microscope'' by analogy with ''telescope''.
15: * [[1953]] - [[Frits Zernike]], professor of [[theoretical physics]],... - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ...thority and [[freedom of thought]], particularly with [[science]], in [[Western society]].
5: Galileo was born in [[Pisa]], [[Italy]], as the son of [[Vincenzo Galilei]], a mathe...
7: ...ved to the [[University of Padua]], and served on its faculty teaching [[geometry]], [[mechanics]], an...
10: ...ted to the rejection of blind allegiance to authority (like the Church) or other thinkers (such as [[A...
12: ...rements of time, which appeared to be impossible with the technology of the [[1600s]]. According to Ko... - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
4: ... [[Tycho Brahe]]. Kepler's career also coincided with that of [[Galileo Galilei]].
6: ...nz (Austria) was renamed [[Johannes Kepler University Linz]] in honor of Johannes Kepler, since he wro...
9: ...aid to have been a weak and sickly child, but despite his ill health, he was precociously brilliant.
13: ...outdoors" to see it and that the moon "appeared quite red."
15: ...tant school in Graz, Austria. He accepted the position in April of [[1594]], at the age of 23. - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
2: ...'Viscount St Albans''' in [[1621]]; both peerage titles becoming extinct upon his death.
4: ...context of his time, such methods were connected with occult trends of [[hermeticism]] and [[alchemy]...
8: ...of Sir Nicholas, a member of the Reformed or [[Puritan]] Church, and a daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke, ...
10: ...3 at the age of 13, living for three years there with his older brother [[Anthony Bacon]].
14: ..., which seemed barren, disputatious, and wrong in its objectives. - Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
1: ...g|thumb|A 19th century illustration of the Salem Witch Trials]]
3: This section of the [[Timeline of United States history]] concerns events from '''1600 t...
13: *[[1609]]-The [[United Provinces]] ([[the Netherlands]]) lays claim to...
20: === [[1620s]] ===
22: *[[1620]]-[[Pilgrims]] arrive from [[Plymouth]], England,... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
2: ...[[social]], [[religion|religious]], [[politics|political]], and [[economics|economic]] structures.
4: ...re, at odds with the [[Kingdom of Great Britain|British]] government on issues of [[taxation]] and [[r...
9: ...terest in [[geography]] and an intellectual curiosity about the world that had subsided during the Mid...
11: ... mounted an effort of colonization and conquest. Within a few years, they had divided up lucrative [[S...
13: ...ly close to Europe, Spain and Portugal had taken little interest in them, so as far as the Europeans w... - 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: ...el also copied works by his father and sold them with his father's signature. His work is distinguisha...
8: ...unger's best works are his extensive landscapes, either under his own name or made for other artists s... - Diwali (5677 bytes)
2: ...he beginning of a new year, for North Indians, entitled [[Annakut]].
4: ...hana]] calendar. In South India, the new year, entitled [[Ugadi]], is followed by persons in [[Andhra ...
6: ...ttp://www.saja.org/stylebook.html#D] (Diwali definition; Excerpt from saja.org: Diwali should not be r...
10: ... every seven years to resynchronize the calendar with the [[season]]s.
16: ...vember 12]] in the [[United Kingdom]] and the [[United States]]. - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: ...glish language|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteration]] order (by [[surname]]).
12: ...[[Ralph Abraham|Ralph H. Abraham]] (USA, [[University of California, Santa Cruz]])
14: *[[John Couch Adams]] (United Kingdom, [[1819]] - [[1892]])
16: *[[Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] (Italy, [[1718]] - [[1799]])
23: *[[Giacomo Albanese]] (Italy, Brazil) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
6: *[[Firmin Abauzit]], (1679-1767)
43: *[[Rogers Albritton]]
112: *[[Titus Pomponius Atticus]], (110-32 BC)
163: *[[James Beattie (writer)|James Beattie]], (1735-1803){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
188: *[[Fran篩s Bernier]], (1620-1688){{fn|R}}
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