1600s Quiz A-Z

Name the things, people, places, etc that took place from 1600-1699

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Hint	Years	Answer
A) The first permanent French capital in North America was established in this area, now modern day Nova Scotia	1605	Acadia
B) Invented by Evangelista Torricelli to measure air pressure	1643	Barometer
C) The Pilgrims landed on this peninsula in Massachusetts before sailing onward	1620	Cape Cod
D) Famous French philosopher who published Discourse on the Method	1637	Descartes
E) Company founded by the British that established trade power in British ruled India	1600	East India
F) Country that established significant settlements in parts of the US and Canada	1605>	France
G) Famous astronomer that used a telescope to observe Jupiters moons	1610	Galileo Galilei
H) This Ivy League university is established in Cambridge, MA	1636	Harvard
I) This physicist publishes his famous Laws of Motion	1687	Isaac Newton
J) The British gained control of this Caribbean island from the Spanish	1655	Jamaica
K) He was the first Stuart king of England and Ireland	1603-1625	King James
L) Robert De La Salle claimed this territory and the entire Mississippi basin for France	1682	Louisiana
M) This ship carried the first pilgrims from England to the US	1620	Mayflower

Hint	Years	Answer
N) Land south of New York granted to Lord John Berkeley that later became the Garden State	1664	New Jersey
O) English Parliamentary leader who oversaw the execution of King Charles I	1599-1658	Oliver Cromwell
P) The Pilgrims established this colony in Mass after landing on the mainland	1620	Plymouth
Q) Christian movement in Pennsylvania known as the Religious Society of Friends	1650s	Quaker
R) This famous Dutch painter created the Night Watch	1642	Rembrandt
S) Girls accused of witchcraft were infamously executed in this Mass settlement	1692	Salem
T) Revolutionary object to view space invented by Hans Lippershey	1608	Telescope
U) This Irish province was colonized with plantations and aimed to pacify the region	1610	Ulster
V) This colony was established and Jamestown was the first settlement	1607	Virginia
W) Treaty of alliance between the Pilgrims and this indigenous nation	1621	Wampanoag
X) This Jesuit missionary was canonized as a saint	1622	Xavier
Y) This town was established as a port on the York river in VA	1691	Yorktown
Z) The Omani Arabs expelled the Portuguese from this African island	1698	Zanzibar

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