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Year
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Hint
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Answer
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A
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1632–1653
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The Taj Mahal is built in this city
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Agra
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B
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1604
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King James commissions a new English translation of this book
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The Bible
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C
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1653
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This man is named Lord Protector of England
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Oliver Cromwell
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D
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1605
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Miguel de Cervantes publishes the first volume of this novel
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Don Quixote
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E
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1603
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This queen dies after a reign of 44 years
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Elizabeth
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F
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1605
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This plotter is captured trying to blow up Parliament with gunpowder
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Guy Fawkes
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G
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1610
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This scientist discovers the moons of Jupiter
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Galileo Galilei
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H
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1607
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This English explorer tries to find the Northwest Passage
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Henry Hudson
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I
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1619
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The Dutch East India company founds the city of Batavia in this modern-day country
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Indonesia
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J
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1655
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England seizes this Caribbean island from Spain
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Jamaica
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K
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1609-19
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This astronomer discovers the laws of planetary motion
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Johannes Kepler
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L
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1643
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This man begins his 72-year reign as King of France
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Louis XIV
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M
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1620
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This ship brings the Pilgrims to Massachusetts
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The Mayflower
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N
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1687
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This scientist's laws of motion and gravitation are first published
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Isaac Newton
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O
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1675
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This building is built in Greenwich
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Royal Observatory
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P
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1682
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This city is founded by William Penn
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Philadelphia
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Q
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1644
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This dynasty comes to power in China
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Qing
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R
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1642
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This Dutch artist paints "The Night Watch"
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Rembrandt
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S
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1610
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Spanish settlers found this city, the oldest among U.S. state capitals
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Santa Fe
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T
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1641
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René Descartes pens the phrase "Cogito ergo sum": I _____ therefore I am
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Think
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U
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1638
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Danish physician Ole Worm determines that the horns of this "animal" are actually from narwhals
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Unicorn
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V
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1682
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This palace becomes the seat of royal power in France
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Versailles
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W
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1692-93
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Twenty people are executed in Massachusetts for this crime
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Witchcraft
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X
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1630
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Japan expresses this phobia as it closes itself to nearly all foreign contact
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Xenophobia
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Y
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1642
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This Asian river is deliberately flooded, killing 300,000 people
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Yellow River
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Z
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1698
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This African spice-trading island comes under the control of the Sultanate of Oman
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Zanzibar
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