Sentences with phrase «16th century people»

Before the 16th century people were using benches and stools as the seat of everyday life, so, from it's humble beginnings as a stool like perch, the chair began to develop, the legs became longer and a back rest was added, the chair was designed in a variety of different materials.

For example in the 16th century people were discussing new astronomical theories to contrast the Aristotelian geocentric theory, and at least three major similar but conflicting theories existed.

However, grading is still possible, where it is advisable or necessary: some 16th century people did horribly with the possibilities then open to them.

To expect 16th century people to be at home, for example, with modern interfaith relations or feminism is unrealistic and anachronistic.

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How many people, even today, know that tomatoes only came to Italy from South America in the 16th century?

In the early 16th century, most people believed Earth was the center of the universe.

So it is that people like Heaven Sent BELIEVE the «word of god» is a book edited in the 17th century from 16th century translations of 8,000 contradictory copies of 4th century scrolls that claim to be copies of LOST letters from the 1st century?

In his zeal to protect indigenous people of the West Indies from Spanish conquistadors, the 16th - century Dominican Bartolomé de Las Casas advocated the importation of African slaves, whom he believed would be treated better than the Indians.

Most people think Utopia is a description of a society idealized by Moore but most literary scholars say that historical evidence indicates it was a satirical critique of 16th century England.

Our information technology is facilitating networking between people with open inquiring minds even more effective than the invention of the printing press and we know the 16th century cultural changes — for both good and ill — that technological development produced.

Don't you people understand that the letter J is of 16th century French and never existed in the ancient world?

Phyllis Tickle on why the biblical hermeneutics of the 16th century Reformers no longer resonates with many people in contemporary society whether they are Christian or secular:

An unknown disease that wiped out 45 percent of native people in 16th - century New Spain (modern Mexico) might have been a type of Salmonella, a new study suggests.

AUSTIN — If you walked the cobblestone streets and bustling markets of 16th and 17th century Mexico City, you would see people born all over the world: Spanish settlers on their way to mass at the cathedral built atop Aztec ruins.

The only person in his family since the early 16th century to have dementia was his great - grandmother, so the familial type of Alzheimer's, which is responsible for about 3 percent of cases, is not likely.

Galluzzi: That was completed at the end of the 16th century in the 90s, and under Ferdinand I, the Grand Duke of Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, by a person whose name was Antonio Santucci.

Two months later, Spanish troops entered the capital of the Aztec Empire, Tenochtitlán (shown above), and by mid-October the virus was sweeping through the city (depicted above in images from the Florentine codex, a document written by a 16th century Spanish friar), killing nearly half of the population, which scholars today estimate at 50,000 to 300,000 people.

Around the 16th Century, when people brought tomatoes to the Mediterranean Basin and even farther north, the plants had to adapt to the shorter days of a northern summer.

It was not until the 16th century when cultivation techniques created more tender varieties of garden peas that people began to consume peas in their fresh state as opposed to just eating dried peas.

Maps from atlases from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries can probably be declared as the The Online dating is now widely accepted as a valid, convenient & fun way of meeting like - minded people.

Maps from atlases from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries can probably be declared as the The Love and Friends - UK dating site for thinking people.

Among the high - profile premieres this year are «Antz,» the new Dreamworks animated film; James Ivory's «A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries,» with Kris Kristofferson playing a character inspired by novelist James Jones; «Dancing at Lughnasa,» starring Meryl Streep in the film of Brian Friel's celebrated play; John Waters» «Pecker,» with Edward Furlong as a fast - food worker whose photos are embraced by the New York art world; Helena Bonham Carter and Kenneth Branagh in «The Theory of Flight,» about a work - release prisoner assigned to a woman with Lou Gehrig's disease; Ben Stiller as a drug - addicted TV writer in «Permanent Midnight»; Christina Ricci in «Desert Blue,» about slim prospects for a teenager in a town of 89 people; «The Imposters,» the new film by Stanley («Big Night») Tucci, starring Tucci and Oliver Platt as cruise - ship stowaways; «Rushmore,» with Jason Schwartzmann as a prep schooler who is a lousy student but hyperactive in campus activities; Cameron Diaz in «Very Bad Things,» about a bachelor party that ends in murder; Cate Blanchett as «Elizabeth,» the story of England's 16th century monarch, and «The Judas Kiss,» with FBI agent Emma Thompson on the trail of the kidnapper of a computer genius.

It explores why people believed in witches, why their were witch hunts in the 16th and 17th Centuries and finally how fair were witch trials?

For example, when European explorers arrived on the east coast of North America in the early 16th century, the land teemed with millions of indigenous people, so many that the explorers wondered whether there would be room for them to settle.

The American Kennel Club traces the name back to the 16th century, when the hounds became associated with the French word becguele («noisy person») thanks to the din of their howls during hunts.

With a history of being selectively bred to entertain the royal courts of the 16th century, this fluffy lap warmer loves attention and enjoys entertaining people with his antics.

On our way back we stop at Mosque Bayan Beleq, one of the inestimable historical Islamic heritage sites in Lombok which is believed to have been built upon the Islamic people's arrival in the 16th century.

The Mughal's were a Muslim people who ruled the Indian Subcontinent from the early 16th century until the mid-19th century.

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This delightful, detached 16th century farmhouse is situated within beautiful countryside just three miles from the village of Beguildy, and can sleep ten people in five bedrooms,...

This historic 16th century Grade II listed town house is ideally located in the centre of Market Drayton in Shropshire and can sleep eight people in four bedrooms, a four poster wi...

The ruins were built by the Chachapoya, a people who were killed them off by the Inca in the 16th century.

Assassin's Creed: Revelations is presented from a third - person perspective in the open world setting of a visually stunning re-creation of 16th - century Constantinople.

The exhibition surveys the representation of the Devil from the 16th through the 20th century, tracing his evolution from the bestial enemy of mankind and Christ in the earlier period, to his perception by the Romantics as a sort of noble rebel against patriarchal authority, to an insinuating dandy, to his virtual absence in the 20th century (in all but advertising and entertainment) as people increasingly recognised that we create our own hell on earth.

Then again, long before Instagram permitted millions and millions to indulge in perfect pictures of other people's lunches, the still - life paintings — with their depiction of food, flowers and other commonplace objects — had gained popularity and found ample amounts of buyers during the the 16th and 17th century «Golden Age of Dutch Painting».

She often works with a group of around 20 people, and the Tate said her work had «something of the anarchy of the 16th - century wandering troupe,» which blurs the line between artist and viewer.

A reminder that Britain before the 16th century was not entirely an artistic blank slate would have been useful, but this exhibition reflects the strengths in a collection whose starting - point is 1545, and it should change for ever how people talk about the history and identity of British art.

Veronese captured 16th century Venice in all of its glory: rich people in sumptuous clothing, stunning architecture and

Veronese captured 16th century Venice in all of its glory: rich people in sumptuous clothing, stunning architecture

«Books of hours» were popular throughout Northern Europe, indicating the importance of religion during the 15th and 16th centuries, and the people's desire for a direct relationship with God.»

Leif Svalgaard says: «Not many people in the 16th century would have said that that the tides were raised by the moon's gravity.

Not many people in the 16th century would have said that that the tides were raised by the moon's gravity.

In the early 16th century, Pinellas County was inhabited by the Tocobaga people; however, when the Spanish began to venture into the area, European disease annihilated the natives.

In the 16th century an increasing number of people were contracting the STD.

It's immediately understandable — even if you don't know exactly what a garbage person is, you have a pretty good idea of what a garbage person is — it's so absurd that it can be mean or funny depending on how you need to utilize it, and it has its roots in both 16th - century figurative use of the word «garbage» and Charles Manson using the actual phrase «garbage people,» so you can sound completely sophisticated every time you type it.

Indigenous rights to their lands and territories have been a concern of international law from its origins in the 16th century expansion of Europe into the New World.24 Today, international law provides strong support for Indigenous peoples» rights to own, control and enjoy their ancestral lands.25 This recognition of the central place of land for Indigenous peoples encompasses in particular the communal nature of such title, and the central significance of spiritual connection to their country.