Early-mid 17th Century


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Late 1630s (1636-1640)

1636 Harvard University is founded.

1637 - 1649 Descartes publishes works on philosophy and mathematics.

1638 Harvey publishes work giving the first correct description of the function of the heart and circulation of the blood.


Science including physics, chemistry, astronomy, earth science, adn biology can 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 material culture and conceptual culture can be considered. Behavioral culture including customs, occupations, recreation and entertainment, and cultural events can be considered.	Sapience Home
Institutions Families including marriage, parenting, kinship, and particular families can be considered. Education including research, teaching, cultural institutions, educational organization, and schools can be connected. Economics including economic activities, industries, and economic systems can be followed. Government including law, government structure, government activity, and partidular governments can be connected. Religion including religious beliefs, religious practice, and religious organization can be considered. Particular traditions including Abrahamic religion, Asiatic religion, pagan religion, and secularism can be examined. Sociology Social structure and change Social structure including anthropological structure, cultural structure, institutional structure, clas structure, and community and regional structure may be useful. Social types including hunting and gathering societies, horticultural societies, and agrarian societies can be considered. Social change including social change factors, social change processes, and particular social changes can be connected. Communities such as Tokyo, Seoul, Mexico City, and Shanghai can be examined for connection. Peoples including African peoples will be connected. Particular nations such as Pakistan, Bangladesh, Russia, Nigeria, Japan, Mexico, and the Philippines can be connected. Western Civilization is prominent in this period. In Brazil, Portuguese colonial settlements expanded. Among Anglic peoples, in what is now the United States, the English settlements expanded. Among Asiatic peoples, in Indonesia the Dutch took control of the East Indies from Portugal. Among South Asian peoples, In India the Taj Mahal was begun, and the British founded the city of Madras. Among Oriental peoples, in China the Ming dynasty was in decline. American Indian peoples including those found in the United States and Brazil can be considered. This is fairly weakly connected to history through classical and medieval times. It is weakly connected to the 16th century, Within the 17th century, it is preceded by the early 17th century. It is followed by the mid 17th century, and by the 18th century. It seems to be only weakly connected to the future.

Science including physics, chemistry, astronomy, earth science, adn biology can 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 material culture and conceptual culture can be considered. Behavioral culture including customs, occupations, recreation and entertainment, and cultural events can be considered.

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Families including marriage, parenting, kinship, and particular families can be considered. Education including research, teaching, cultural institutions, educational organization, and schools can be connected. Economics including economic activities, industries, and economic systems can be followed. Government including law, government structure, government activity, and partidular governments can be connected. Religion including religious beliefs, religious practice, and religious organization can be considered. Particular traditions including Abrahamic religion, Asiatic religion, pagan religion, and secularism can be examined.

Sociology

Social structure and change

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

Communities such as Tokyo, Seoul, Mexico City, and Shanghai can be examined for connection.

Peoples including African peoples will be connected. Particular nations such as Pakistan, Bangladesh, Russia, Nigeria, Japan, Mexico, and the Philippines can be connected. Western Civilization is prominent in this period. In Brazil, Portuguese colonial settlements expanded. Among Anglic peoples, in what is now the United States, the English settlements expanded. Among Asiatic peoples, in Indonesia the Dutch took control of the East Indies from Portugal. Among South Asian peoples, In India the Taj Mahal was begun, and the British founded the city of Madras. Among Oriental peoples, in China the Ming dynasty was in decline. American Indian peoples including those found in the United States and Brazil can be considered.

This is fairly weakly connected to history through classical and medieval times. It is weakly connected to the 16th century, Within the 17th century, it is preceded by the early 17th century.

It is followed by the mid 17th century, and by the 18th century. It seems to be only weakly connected to the future.