Early 17th Century


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Early 1600s (1601-1605)

c. 1603-c. 1621 Bacon writes and publishes influential work on natural philosophy and scientific method.

c. 1604-c. 1615 Kepler discovers and publishes his three laws of planetary motion.

c. 1586-c 1637 Galileo makes important discoveries in physics and astronomy.

1607 Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America, is founded.

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Late 1600s (1606-1610)

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Early 1610s (1611-1615)

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Late 1610s (1616-1620)

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Institutions Families including marriage, parenting, kinship, and particular families are important. Education including research, teaching, cultural institutions, educational organization, and schools can be connected. Economics including economic activity, industries, and economic systems will be useful. Government including law, government structure, government activity, and particular governments can be connected. Religion including religious beliefs, religious practice, and particular religions can be connected. Sociology Social structure and change Social structure including anthropological structure, cultural structure, institutional structure, class structure, and community and regional structure can be considered. Social types including hunting and gathering societies, horticultural societies, agrarian societies, and industrial societies can be connected. Social change including social change factors, social change processes, and particular changes can be examined. Communities including Tokyo, Seoul, Mexico City, and New York City can be examined for connection. Peoples of the world will include African peoples. Particular nations such as Brazil, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Russia can be connected. Western Civilization will be important. The first English colonies in what is now the United States were founded. Among Asiatic peoples, in Indonesia, the Dutch began to replace the Portuguese. Among South Asian peoples, in India the English began to replace the Portuguese in the India trade. Among Oriental peoples, in China the Ming dynasty was in decline. American Indian peoples such as those found in the United States are less directly important. This is only weakly connected with most of history through classical and medieval times. It is preceded by the 16th century, particularly the late 16th century. It is followed by the early-mid 17th century and is weakly connected to the 18th century and later times. It is weakly connected to the future.

Science including chemistry, physics, astronomy, earth science, and biology can possibly be connected. Personal studies including the human body, psychology, and biography can be connected. Anthropology including social foundations, demography, physical anthropology, human ecology, human geography, and particular groups can be connected. Culture including mterial culture, conceptual culture, and behavioral culture will also be significant.

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Families including marriage, parenting, kinship, and particular families are important. Education including research, teaching, cultural institutions, educational organization, and schools can be connected. Economics including economic activity, industries, and economic systems will be useful. Government including law, government structure, government activity, and particular governments can be connected. Religion including religious beliefs, religious practice, and particular religions can be connected.

Sociology

Social structure and change

Social structure including anthropological structure, cultural structure, institutional structure, class structure, and community and regional structure can be considered. Social types including hunting and gathering societies, horticultural societies, agrarian societies, and industrial societies can be connected. Social change including social change factors, social change processes, and particular changes can be examined.

Communities including Tokyo, Seoul, Mexico City, and New York City can be examined for connection.

Peoples of the world will include African peoples. Particular nations such as Brazil, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Russia can be connected. Western Civilization will be important. The first English colonies in what is now the United States were founded. Among Asiatic peoples, in Indonesia, the Dutch began to replace the Portuguese. Among South Asian peoples, in India the English began to replace the Portuguese in the India trade. Among Oriental peoples, in China the Ming dynasty was in decline. American Indian peoples such as those found in the United States are less directly important.

This is only weakly connected with most of history through classical and medieval times. It is preceded by the 16th century, particularly the late 16th century.

It is followed by the early-mid 17th century and is weakly connected to the 18th century and later times. It is weakly connected to the future.