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  1. 4 days ago · 1600 BC: Surgical treatise appeared in Egypt. 1500 BC: Sundial in Ancient Egypt or Babylonia (modern-day Iraq). 1500 BC: Glass manufacture in either Mesopotamia or Ancient Egypt; 1500 BC: Seed drill in Babylonia; 1400 BC: Rubber, Mesoamerican ballgame. 1400 BC - 1200 BC: Concrete in Tiryns (Mycenaean Greece).

  2. 3 days ago · Greek War of Independence, (1821–30), rebellion of Greeks within the Ottoman Empire, a struggle which resulted in the establishment of an independent Greece. This is a list of revolutions, rebellions, insurrections, and uprisings .

  3. 1 day ago · The Tokugawa shogunate, which governed from Edo (modern Tokyo), presided over a prosperous and peaceful era known as the Edo period (1600–1868). The Tokugawa shogunate imposed a strict class system on Japanese society and cut off almost all contact with the outside world.

  4. 2 days ago · 1. Who controlled New York in the 1600s? In 1664, the English took control of New York from the Dutch and renamed it New York. Ownership of the colony was valuable due to its location and status as a port of commerce and trade. 2. What type of colony did New York become in 1664?

  5. 4 days ago · Peter I. emperor of Russia. Also known as: Peter the Great, Pyotr Alekseyevich, Pyotr Veliky. Written by. Leonid Alekseyevich Nikiforov. Former Senior Scientific Associate, Institute of History of the U.S.S.R., Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., Moscow. Author of Anglo-Russian Relations in the Reign of Peter I. Leonid Alekseyevich Nikiforov.

  6. 2 days ago · May 29, 2024. May 28, 2025. Start Modern China's Foundations today. Enroll Now. Home. Courses. Modern China’s Foundations: The Manchus and the Qing. What You'll Learn. This course, part of a comprehensive series on China, looks at the Qing state in the early 1600s and the challenges that the Manchus faced as minority rulers.

  7. 4 days ago · The East India Company was initially created in 1600 to serve as a trading body for English merchants, specifically to participate in the East Indian spice trade. It later added such items as cotton, silk, indigo, saltpeter, tea, and opium to its wares and also participated in the slave trade.

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