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Timeline of the 17th Century

How well do you remember historical events from 1601 until 1700?
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1. Which philosopher was burned at the stake for believing that the universe is infinite and that other solar systems exist?
Michel de Montaigne
Jean Bodin
Antoine Lavoisier
Giordano Bruno
2. What period of fine art, well known for its grandiosity and exaggeration, started in Italy around 1600?
Romanticism
Symbolism
Baroque
Realism
3. What town became the first permanent English settlement in the Americas in 1607?
Roanoke
Charlestown
Plymouth
Jamestown
4. Which English explorer tried to find the Northwest Passage in 1607?
Samuel de Champlain
Henry Hudson
William Bradford
John Rolfe
5. Which scientist discovered the moons of Jupiter in 1610?
Christiaan Huygens
Robert Boyle
Gallileo Gallilei
Johannes Kepler
6. What was the name of early English settler of North America who was married to Pocahontas?
John Smith
William Penn
Roger Williams
John Rolfe
7. What Native American tribe was Pocahontas from?
Powhatan
Navajo
Sioux
Cherokee
8. Miguel de Cervantes is best known for his novel "Don Quixote" completed in 1615. In what Spanish region is the story taking place?
Galicia
Andalusia
Aragon
La Mancha
9. What war was the result of the Reformation?
Twenty Years' War
Sixty Years' War
Forty Years' War
Thirty Years' War
10. The first Africans arrived in what British colony in America in 1619?
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Georgia
Virginia
11. What was the name of the ship of Pilgrims that landed in Massachusetts in 1620?
Marchflower
Mayflower
Juneflower
Aprilflower
12. What was the stage name of the comedic French playwright, whose works included "The Misanthrope" and "Tartuffe?"
Moliere
Giotto
Voltaire
Jolliet
13. Which artist painted Nicolaes Tulp (1632), Belshazzar's Feast (1635) and The Night Watch (1642)?
Jan Steen
Peter Paul Rubens
Rembrandt
Caravaggio
14. In which U.S state .was Harvard University founded in 1636?
Maine
North Carolina
Massachusetts
Michigan
15. "Cogito, ergo sum" is a statement that was made in Latin by which philosopher?
Gottfried Leibniz
Rene Descartes
Giordano Bruno
Niccolo Macchiavelli
16. In 1643, who led the first known European expedition to reach New Zealand and to sight the Fiji islands?
Hernando de Soto
John Cabot
Abel Tasman
James Cook
17. Which Italian violin maker opened a shop at Piazza Roma, prominent craftsmen square in Cremona?
Antonio Salieri
Claudio Monteverdi
Niccolo Paganini
Antonio Stradivari
18. Who was the "Lord Protector of the Commonwealth" of England?
Thomas Becket
John Collins
Robert Walpole
Oliver Cromwell
19. Who did the English colonists of New England fight in King Philip's war between 1675 and 1678?
French
Spanish
Mexicans
Native American tribes
20. Which physicist brought the theories of gravity and the basic laws of motion?
Albert Einstein
Max Planck
Isaac Newton
Michael Faraday
21. Which Caribbean port city was largely destroyed by a cataclysmic earthquake in 1692, leaving pirates to find another refuge and base of operations?
Port Royal
Portobello
Tortuga
Havana
22. For what crime 20 people were executed in Massachusetts in 1692-93?
Children abuse
Rape
Kidnapping
Witchcraft
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