Timeline of the 17th Century

1. Which philosopher was burned at the stake for believing that the universe is infinite and that other solar systems exist?

2. What period of fine art, well known for its grandiosity and exaggeration, started in Italy around 1600?

3. What town became the first permanent English settlement in the Americas in 1607?

4. Which English explorer tried to find the Northwest Passage in 1607?

5. Which scientist discovered the moons of Jupiter in 1610?

6. What was the name of early English settler of North America who was married to Pocahontas?

7. What Native American tribe was Pocahontas from?

8. Miguel de Cervantes is best known for his novel "Don Quixote" completed in 1615. In what Spanish region is the story taking place?

9. What war was the result of the Reformation?

10. The first Africans arrived in what British colony in America in 1619?

11. What was the name of the ship of Pilgrims that landed in Massachusetts in 1620?

12. What was the stage name of the comedic French playwright, whose works included "The Misanthrope" and "Tartuffe?"

13. Which artist painted Nicolaes Tulp (1632), Belshazzar's Feast (1635) and The Night Watch (1642)?

14. In which U.S state .was Harvard University founded in 1636?

15. "Cogito, ergo sum" is a statement that was made in Latin by which philosopher?

16. In 1643, who led the first known European expedition to reach New Zealand and to sight the Fiji islands?

17. Which Italian violin maker opened a shop at Piazza Roma, prominent craftsmen square in Cremona?

18. Who was the "Lord Protector of the Commonwealth" of England?

19. Who did the English colonists of New England fight in King Philip's war between 1675 and 1678?

20. Which physicist brought the theories of gravity and the basic laws of motion?

21. Which Caribbean port city was largely destroyed by a cataclysmic earthquake in 1692, leaving pirates to find another refuge and base of operations?

22. For what crime 20 people were executed in Massachusetts in 1692-93?