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- From political revolutions to scientific discoveries and cultural achievements, this era reshaped the course of human civilization. It saw the rise and fall of empires, the emergence of new ideas in science and philosophy, and significant economic developments that laid the groundwork for the modern world.
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2 days ago · New waves of plague struck northern Italy and Tuscany in 1630–31 and southern Italy, Lazio, and Genoa in 1656–57, with population losses between one-fourth and one-fifth, respectively. The large cities of Milan, Naples, and Genoa lost as much as half of their population.
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1 day ago · Louis XIV’s patronage centred on Versailles, the great palace that also played such an important part in the political life of 17th-century France. There André Le Nôtre designed the formal gardens, which still attract a multitude of admiring visitors, as they did when they were first completed.
2 days ago · For Michelet, the Renaissance was more a development in science than in art and culture. He asserted that it spanned the period from Columbus to Copernicus to Galileo; that is, from the end of the 15th century to the middle of the 17th century. [98]
1 day ago · In the sixteenth and seventeenth century, the death of a pope led to all sorts of chaos, from the destruction of art to armed violence in the streets. The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. In 1549, the great cook Bartolomeo Scappi was presented with a challenge: cooking for a papal conclave in Rome.
4 days ago · France - Absolutism, Religious Conflict, Louis XIII: The restoration of royal authority was not, of course, simply a matter of adjusting theories of kingship; there was a clear practical reason for Henry’s success. The country had tottered on the brink of disintegration for three decades.
2 days ago · The English Civil War was a series of civil wars and political machinations between Royalists and Parliamentarians in the Kingdom of England [b] from 1642 to 1651. Part of the wider 1639 to 1653 Wars of the Three Kingdoms, the struggle consisted of the First English Civil War and the Second English Civil War.
