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During the 16th and 17th centuries, in particular at the height of its power under the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman Empire was one of the most powerful states in the world – a multinational, multilingual empire that stretched from the southern borders of the Holy Roman Empire to the outskirts of Vienna, Royal Hungary ( modern Slovakia ) and the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth in the north to Yemen and Eritrea in the south ; from Algeria in the west to Azerbaijan in the east ; controlling much of southeast Europe, Western Asia and North Africa.
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During the Middle Ages, there were various systems involving elections or assemblies, although often only involving a small amount of the population, the election of Gopala in Bengal region of Indian Subcontinent, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ( 10 % of population ), the Althing in Iceland, the Løgting in the Faeroe Islands, certain medieval Italian city-states such as Venice, the tuatha system in early medieval Ireland, the Veche in Novgorod and Pskov Republics of medieval Russia, Scandinavian Things, The States in Tirol and Switzerland and the autonomous merchant city of Sakai in the 16th century in Japan.
During the 16th century Italian Renaissance, the Questione della lingua was the discussion on the status and ideal form of the Italian language, initiated by Dante's de vulgari eloquentia ( Pietro Bembo, Prose della volgar lingua Venice 1525 ).
During the 16th century, Scotland underwent a Protestant Reformation that made the nation Calvinist, with a strong Presbyterian Church.
During the 16th and 17th centuries, a large advancement of scientific progress known as the Scientific Revolution took place in Europe.
During the 16th century the Jewish community in Galilee prospered, with Safed reaching a size of 15, 000 residents, mostly Jews.
During the 16th century, the Spanish and Austrian Habsburgs were the dominant power in Europe.
During the 16th century, the king began to claim North American territories and established several ( unsuccessful ) colonies.
During the early 16th century, the Sayfawa Dynasty solidified its hold on the Bornu population after much rebellion.
During the 16th century, they established themselves at Macina in southern Mali.
During the 16th century, Ashante society experienced sudden changes, including population growth because of cultivation of New World plants such as cassava and maize and an increase in the gold trade between the coast and the north.
During the 16th century the Portuguese were able to establish permanent markets up the Zambezi River in an attempt to gain political and military control of Mutapa.
During the second half of the 16th century, German tablature and German repertoire were gradually replaced by Italian and French tablature and international repertoire, respectively, and the Thirty Years War ( 1618 – 48 ) effectively stopped publications for half a century.
During the 16th century Munich was a centre of the German counter reformation, and also of renaissance arts.
During the Counter Reformation and Baroque periods ( late 16th and 17th centuries ), the cult of Mary Magdalene saw a great, new popularity as the Catholic Church publicized her as an attractive, persusasive model of repentance and reform, in keeping with the goals of the reform Council of Trent ( 1545 – 63 ).
During the 16th century, the artist John White made watercolors and engravings of the people native to the southeastern states.
During the 16th century the Songhai Empire reached its peak, stretching from the Senegal and Gambia rivers and incorporating part of Hausaland in the east.
During this period in the 15th and 16th centuries, the Ottoman Empire entered a long period of conquest and expansion, extending its borders deep into Europe and North Africa.
During the 16th and 17th centuries, at the height of the Empire, no other region would prove of more strategic and economic importance.
During the 16th century, the Spaniards brought horses with them, and inadvertently reintroduced horses back into North America.
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During the 15th century the sound of full triads became common, and towards the end of the 16th century the system of church modes began to break down entirely, giving way to the functional tonality which was to dominate western art music for the next three centuries.
The earliest spring-driven timepiece with a second hand which marked seconds is an unsigned clock depicting Orpheus in the Fremersdorf collection, dated between 1560 and During the 3rd quarter of the 16th century, Taqi al-Din built a clock with marks every 1 / 5 minute.
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During the 17th century, English emigration to the British colonies in North America was at its peak, and the new settlers took the English language with them.
During the 17th century, under the reign of Christian IV, it became a significant regional centre.
During the 17th and 18th centuries coin collecting remained a pursuit of the well-to-do.
During the 17th century cavalry in Europe lost most of its armor, ineffective against the muskets and cannon which were coming into use, and by the mid-19th century armor had mainly fallen into disuse, although some regiments retained a small thickened cuirass that offered protection against lances and sabres and some protection against shot.
During the time of colonial expansion in the 17th century, the true progenitors of the modern corporation emerged as the " chartered company ".
During the 17th and 18th centuries, Easter Island experienced severe erosion due to deforestation and unsustainable agricultural practices.
During the peak of the age of sail, beginning in the early 17th century, it has been customary ( and later a legal requirement ) for ships to carry flags designating their nationality ; these flags eventually evolved into the national flags and maritime flags of today.
During the 17th century, the French fabulist Jean de La Fontaine ( 1621 – 1695 ) saw the soul of the fable in the moral — a rule of behavior.
During the 17th century, the Caribs fought against the Spanish settlers and repelled them.
During most of the 18th century Spain had arrested its relative decline of the latter part of the 17th century.
During the 17th and 18th centuries, not much is known about Bornu.
During the 17th century, a Lunda chief and warrior called Mwata Kazembe set up an Eastern Lunda kingdom in the valley of the Luapula River.
During the 17th century, the basic tenets of the Grotian or eclectic school, especially the doctrines of legal equality, territorial sovereignty, and independence of states, became the fundamental principles of the European political and legal system and were enshrined in the 1648 Peace of Westphalia.
During the 17th century, Rabbi Yitzchak Luria of Safed and his disciples created a short seder, called Hemdat ha ‑ Yamim, reminiscent of the seder that Jews observe on Passover, that explores the holiday's Kabbalistic themes.
During the 17th through 19th centuries, a woman expressing passionate love for another woman was fashionable, accepted, and encouraged.
During the 17th century keyboard and lute music went hand in hand, and by 1700 lutenists were writing suites of dances quite akin to those of keyboard composers.
During the 17th and 18th centuries, processed maple sap was used primarily as a source of concentrated sugar, in both liquid and crystallized-solid form, as cane sugar had to be imported from the West Indies.
During the early 17th century, a curious cultural and literary cult of melancholia arose in England.
During the 17th Century there was the Acadian Civil War ( 1640-45 ).
During the 17th and 18th centuries, massive deforestation was undertaken by the planters as the land was initially cleared for sugar cultivation.
During the 17th century, the Algonquians and Hurons fought a bitter war against the Iroquois.
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