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6 ore fa · From the late 14th century to the early 16th century, England had a considerable industry in Nottingham alabaster reliefs for mid-market altarpieces and small statues, which were exported across Northern Europe. Another art form introduced through the church was stained glass, which was also adopted for secular uses. Medieval art: gallery
6 ore fa · Mercantilism dominated Western European economic policy and discourse from the 16th to late-18th centuries. Mercantilism was a cause of frequent European wars and also motivated colonial expansion. High tariffs, especially on manufactured goods, are an almost universal feature of mercantilist policy. Other policies have included:
1 giorno fa · The English translation of Zhongyuan as the "Middle Kingdom" entered European languages through the Portuguese in the 16th century and became popular in the mid-19th century. By the mid-20th century, the term was thoroughly entrenched in the English language, reflecting the Western view of China as the inward-looking Middle Kingdom, or more accurately, the Central Kingdom or Central State .
6 ore fa · Shortly before the turn of the 16th century, the Portuguese started establishing trading posts across Africa, Asia, and Brazil, for local commodities ranging from slaves to gold, spices, and sugar. In the 17th century, private chartered companies were established, such as the English East India Company in 1600 – often described as the first multinational corporation – and the Dutch East ...
6 ore fa · About ten percent of England’s population entered in the Domesday Book (1086) were slaves, despite chattel slavery of English Christians being nominally discontinued after the 1066 conquest. It is difficult to be certain about slave numbers, however, since the old Roman word for slave ( servus ) continued to be applied to unfree people whose status later was reflected by the term serf .
7 giu 2024 · In 1587, one of history's greatest mysteries began on the coast of what is now North Carolina...A group of 117 English settlers, including women and children...
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1 giorno fa · Meaning Etymology The English word "news" developed in the 14th century as a special use of the plural form of "new". In Middle English, the equivalent word was newes, like the French nouvelles and the German Neues. Similar developments are found in the Slavic languages – namely cognates from Serbo-Croatian novost (from nov, "new"), Czech and Slovak noviny (from nový, "new"), the Polish ...
