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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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City where the Taj Mahal was built
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Agra
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B
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1604
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King James commissioned a new English translation of the ...
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Bible
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C
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1653
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Man who was 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 novel published for the first time
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Don Quixote
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E
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1603
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Queen who died 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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Plotter who was 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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Scientist who discovered the moons of Jupiter
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Galileo Galilei
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H
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1611
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English explorer who died trying 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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Modern-day country where the Dutch East India company founded the city of Batavia
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Indonesia
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J
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1655
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Caribbean island which England seized from Spain
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Jamaica
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K
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1609–19
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Astronomer who formulated 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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Man who started 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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Ship which brought the Pilgrims to Massachusetts
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The Mayflower
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N
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1687
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Scientist who published his laws of motion and gravitation
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Isaac Newton
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O
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1675
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Building constructed in Greenwich
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Royal Observatory
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P
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1682
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City founded by William Penn
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Philadelphia
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Q
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1644
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Dynasty which came to power in China
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Qing
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R
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1642
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Dutch artist who painted "The Night Watch"
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Rembrandt
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S
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1610
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City founded by the Spanish – the oldest state capital in the U.S.
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Santa Fe
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T
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1641
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Idea of René Descartes: "I _____ therefore I am"
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Think
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U
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1638
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"Animal" whose horns actually came from narwhals, as determined by Danish physician Ole Worm
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Unicorn
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V
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1682
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Palace which became 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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Crime for which twenty people were executed in Massachusetts
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Witchcraft
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X
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1630
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Phobia expressed by Japan when it closed 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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Asian river which was 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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African spice-trading island which came under the control of the Sultanate of Oman
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Zanzibar
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