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8 hours ago · The 17th century was a century of revolution in England, deserving of the same scholarly attention that 'modern' revolutions attract. [156] [ page needed ] James II tried building a powerful militarised state on the mercantilist assumption that the world's wealth was necessarily finite, and empires were created by taking land from other states.
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8 hours ago · South Africa achieved unification and independence in 1910. Its prehistory dates back to the origins of homo-sapiens centuries ago. However, our narrative commences in the mid-seventeenth century in Europe, when the Dutch East India Company (DEIC) established a provisioning station at the Cape of Good Hope en route to the East.
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8 hours ago · Left political radicalism based on religious social utopianism—such as the medieval millenarian movements (See, for example, Cohn 1970), Thomas Müntzer’s peasant rebellion (1525), the Münster rebellion (1535), the seventeenth-century Diggers, many nineteenth-century communistic communities in the US 13, the Taiping rebellion (1850–1864 ...
8 hours ago · Florida was under colonial rule by Spain from the 16th century to the 19th century, and briefly by Great Britain during the 18th century (1763–1783). Neither Spain nor Britain maintained a large military or civilian population. It became a territory of the United States in 1821.
1 day ago · Religion. Opposition and resistance. Related. v. t. e. Abolitionism, or the abolitionist movement, is the movement to end slavery and liberate slaves around the world. The first country to fully outlaw slavery was France in 1315, but it was later used in its colonies.
8 hours ago · After declaring its independence from the empire of Philip II of Spain in 1581, the Netherlands experienced almost a century of explosive economic growth. A technological revolution in shipbuilding and trade knowledge and capital, due to Protestant traders of Flanders who fled to the Netherlands, helped the young Republic become the dominant trade power by the mid-17th century.
8 hours ago · An independent kingdom was formed in the 8th century and it later became part of Georgia before again becoming independent in 1463 – and then falling under the rule of the Ottoman Empire in the ...
