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  2. Renaissance technology - Wikipedia

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    Renaissance technology was the set of European artifacts and inventions which spread through the Renaissance period, roughly the 14th century through the 16th century. The era is marked by profound technical advancements such as the printing press, linear perspective in drawing, patent law, double shell domes and bastion fortresses.

  3. 16th century - Wikipedia

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    The world map by the Italian Amerigo Vespucci (from whose name the word America is derived) and Belgian Gerardus Mercator shows (besides the classical continents Europe, Africa, and Asia) the Americas as America sive India Nova', New Guinea, and other islands of Southeast Asia, as well as a hypothetical Arctic continent and a yet undetermined Terra Australis.

  4. Industrious Revolution - Wikipedia

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    The right mindset to a productional economy and world may have increased the supply of technology, but they would have had little impact on invention without a demand for new techniques. [citation needed] The theory of an Industrious Revolution, as put forward by historian Jan de Vries, claims that there were two parts to the Industrious ...

  5. Timeline of historic inventions - Wikipedia

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    The Lower Paleolithic period lasted over 3 million years, during which there many human-like species evolved including toward the end of this period, Homo sapiens.The original divergence between humans and chimpanzees occurred 13 (), however interbreeding continued until as recently as 4 Ma, with the first species clearly belonging to the human (and not chimpanzee) lineage being ...

  6. 1600s (decade) - Wikipedia

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    The 1600s (pronounced "sixteen-hundreds") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on 1 January 1600, and ended on 31 December 1609. The term "sixteen-hundreds" could also mean the entire century from 1 January 1600 to 31 December 1699. The decade was a period of significant political, scientific, and artistic advancement.

  7. 1600 in science - Wikipedia

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    February 19 – The Peruvian volcano Huaynaputina erupts catastrophically. This is the largest known volcanic explosion in South America and triggers severe global climatic events including the Russian famine of 1601–1603.

  8. Timeline of British history (1600–1699) - Wikipedia

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    The concept of "British history" began to emerge in the 1600s, largely thanks to the attempts of King James II to assert that the Union of the Crowns of 1603 had created a Kingdom of Great Britain, which in fact did not come into existence until a century later.

  9. Global silver trade from the 16th to 19th centuries - Wikipedia

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    Silver was one of the only accepted trade items from Europeans and its value in China was astronomical compared to rest of the world. [39] Between 1600 and 1800 China received 100 tons of silver on average per year. [citation needed] A large populace near the Lower Yangtze averaged hundreds of taels of silver per household in the late 16th ...

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