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  • ...east 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK t
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  • ...east 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK t
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  • ...ury, cacao eventually surpassed sugar as the main export crop; in the 20th century, nutmeg became the leading export. In 1967, Britain gave [[Grenada]] autono
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  • ...onized for more than a century. The French settled [[Grenada]] in the 17th century, established sugar estates, and imported large numbers of African [[slaves]
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  • Originally a Dutch colony in the 17th century, by 1815 [[Guyana]] had become a British possession. The abolition of slave
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  • Originally a Dutch colony in the 17th century, by 1815 [[Guyana]] had become a British possession. The abolition of slave
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  • ...rtually annihilated by Spanish settlers within 25 years. In the early 17th century, the French established a presence on Hispaniola.
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  • The Dutch began to colonize [[Indonesia]] in the early 17th century; [[Japan]] occupied the islands from 1942 to 1945. [[Indonesia]] declared i
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  • ...e Dutch - who named it in honor of Prince Maurits van NASSAU - in the 17th century. The French assumed control in 1715, developing the island into an importan
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  • ...e Dutch - who named it in honor of Prince Maurits van NASSAU - in the 17th century. The French assumed control in 1715, developing the island into an importan
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  • ...eventually retired to their original steppe homelands and in the late 17th century came under Chinese rule. [[Mongolia]] won its independence in 1921 with Sov
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  • ...ry. In 1860, [[Spain]] occupied northern [[Morocco]] and ushered in a half century of trade rivalry among European powers that saw [[Morocco]]'s sovereignty s
    2 KB (321 words) - 02:13, 26 March 2018
  • ...ry. In 1860, [[Spain]] occupied northern [[Morocco]] and ushered in a half century of trade rivalry among European powers that saw [[Morocco]]'s sovereignty s
    8 KB (1,220 words) - 05:37, 19 February 2018
  • ...vinces declared their independence from [[Spain]] in 1579; during the 17th century, they became a leading seafaring and commercial power, with settlements and
    1 KB (196 words) - 02:22, 26 March 2018
  • ...vinces declared their independence from [[Spain]] in 1579; during the 17th century, they became a leading seafaring and commercial power, with settlements and
    8 KB (1,102 words) - 15:26, 29 June 2021
  • ...Baltic Sea and the country was renamed the Russian Empire. During the 19th century, more territorial acquisitions were made in Europe and Asia. Defeat in the
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  • ...gradually conquer and absorb surrounding principalities. In the early 17th century, a new ROMANOV Dynasty continued this policy of expansion across Siberia to
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  • ...trolled by the Portuguese in the 16th century and by the Dutch in the 17th century. The island was ceded to the British in 1796, became a crown colony in 1802
    2 KB (349 words) - 03:50, 26 March 2018
  • ...niards in the 16th century and then settled by the English in the mid-17th century, [[Suriname]] became a Dutch colony in 1667. With the abolition of African
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  • A military power during the 17th century, [[Sweden]] has not participated in any war for almost two centuries. An ar
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  • ...gely forgotten until interest was revived by Felix Mendelssohn in the 19th century. [[Category: 17th Century]]
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  • ...tram00.jpg/254px-John_bartram00.jpg |410x579px|thumb|'''John Bartram, 19th Century illustration'''<br />Source: Wikipedia.org.}} [[Category: 17th Century]]
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  • ...] and [[Portugal]] who involuntarily converted to Christianity in the 14th century and later, many of whom continued to practice Judaism in secret. In the las [[Category: 17th Century]]
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  • [[Category: 17th Century]] [[Category: 18th Century]]
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  • ...1705) he emigrated to the American colonies (1710). He spent the next half century in the colonial civil service, eventually being appointed surveyor general [[Category: 17th Century]]
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  • [[Category: 17th Century]] [[Category: 18th Century]]
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  • ...e Sultans at will. Moslems also began to be admitted as Janissaries, and a century later membership had become largely hereditary and conscription of Christia [[Category: 14th Century]]
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  • [[Category: 16th Century]] [[Category: 17th Century]]
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  • ...th and 17th centuries; the British came to dominate the region in the 18th century. The separation in 1947 of British [[India]] into the Muslim state of [[Pak
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  • ...s Sabbatai's reincarnation and successor, surviving at least into the 20th century. [[Category: 17th Century]]
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  • The Dutch began to colonize [[Indonesia]] in the early 17th century; [[Japan]] occupied the islands from 1942 to 1945. [[Indonesia]] declared i
    2 KB (259 words) - 02:24, 25 March 2018
  • ...eventually retired to their original steppe homelands and in the late 17th century came under Chinese rule. [[Mongolia]] won its independence in 1921 with Sov
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  • ...in-nan) region in the southeast of mainland [[China]] starting in the 17th century, and the Hakka (15% of the total population), whose ancestors originally mi
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  • ...ain autonomous for well over 100 years. During the latter part of the 18th century, most Ukrainian ethnographic territory was absorbed by the Russian Empire.
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  • ...an [[slaves]] and considerable environmental degradation. In the late 18th century, [[Haiti]]'s nearly half million [[slaves]] revolted under Toussaint L'OUVE
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