Unification of the New World Colonies As the seventeenth century dawned, much of the New World was being intensely transformed. ... In the middle of the seventeenth century, the fast-growing populations of New England settlements were driving people away from the Puritan church. ... In colonial churches, it became apparent that religion was losing its appeal as the eighteenth century commenced. Churchgoers were becoming less interested, which was beginning to break apart the unity that had been created in the past century. ... From William Penn and the Half-Way Covenant in the 17th century...

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During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries literature became a part if life to many people. ... Miguel De Cervantes wrote mainly in the early seventeenth century while John Milton wrote mostly in the mid seventeenth century. ... During the seventeenth century many things were going on. ...

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The countries of Spain, France, and England chose different methods of going about the colonization and conquest of the New World in the 17th century. ... The exploration and conquest of the New World differed began with the Spanish in the early 1500s, but the French and English were rapidly gaining in the seventeenth century. ... By the beginning of the seventeenth century, over two hundred thousand Europeans had arrived in the New World. ...

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From the great expressionists and the literary accomplishments of 16th century English Literature a new breed of poets were born. Known as the Metaphysical Poets; English lyric poets of the 17th century had many achievements. ... These poets would often investigate the world expressing reason and passion and stressed the unification of thought and feeling; these works" discussed the entire experience of man; "The poets of the seventeenth century, the successors of the dramatists of the sixteenth, possessed a mechanism of sensibility which could devour any kind of experience (T.S. ... For Cent...

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The Renaissance began in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. ... After the translations of the many ancient works of Hippocrates and Galen in the 15th and 16th centuries, progress was made in medicine and anatomy. ... Galileo had taken a big step when he combined mathematical models to the subject matter of physics by the end of the 16th century. ...

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How typical is Blakesley Hall as an example of a wealthy yeoman's house of the late 16th/ early 17th century? ... As a late sixteenth century house Blakesley Hall is different in having bedrooms linked through a long gallery and not with adjoining doors. This has been found to be a contemporary feature as it is more common seventeenth century houses, such as Aston Hall. ... This is typical of the sixteenth century Tudors before the introduction of brick. ... Some features in Blakesley Hall can be found in sixteenth century houses of the gentry, but others suggest that the style of...

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Baroque is a seventeenth-century style of European art characterized by ornamentation, curved lines, irregularity of form, dramatic lighting and color, and exaggerated gestures. ... "The landscape too, has nothing to do with the innovative Dutch realistic landscape of the 17th century. ... The figures are arranged parallel to the picture plane, and the vertical and horizontal elements stabilize the composition in the classicizing manner that was to dominate in Rembrandt's work, which was in Dutch painting in general, in the middle of the century. ... These works were influenced by the...

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The Baroque period in Poland was alive for more than two centuries, beginning at the very end of the sixteenth century and lasting until the middle of the eighteenth century. ... It was also not uncommon for historical references to appear in literary works during the seventeenth century. ...

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Bailyn begins to examine the German population of immigrants early on by stating that "An estimated ten percent of the pre-Revolutionary population was German Speaking about 500,000 people emigrated from southwestern Germany and Switzerland in the eighteenth century." 1 Bailyn then goes on to ask the question: why? ... He makes a quick mention of it later in the book, blaming "special problems created by persecution, wars, and famine in the Palatine at the end of the wars, and famine in the Palatine at the end of the seventeenth century."2 There is not much else relating to the actual reaso...

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