** Early German-American or Pennsylvania Dutch and Pennsylvania Dutch cuisine

Belgian historian Henri Pirenne and Dutch historian Johan Huizinga popularized the following subdivisions in the early 20th century: the Early Middle Ages from 476 to 1000, the High Middle Ages from 1000 to 1300, and the Late Middle Ages from 1300 to 1453.

Early Dutch television series were Morgen gebeurt het ( tomorrow it will happen ), broadcast from 1957 to 1959, about a group of Dutch space explorers and their adventures, De duivelsgrot ( the devil's cave ), broadcast from 1963 to 1964, about a scientist who finds the map of a cave that leads to the center of the earth and Treinreis naar de Toekomst ( train journey to the future ) about two young children who are taken to the future by robots who try to recreate humanity, but are unable to give the cloned humans a soul.

* Balthasar Bekker ( 1634 – 1698 ) Dutch, a key figure in the Early Enlightenment.

The 17th century falls into the Early Modern period of Europe and in that continent was characterized by the Dutch Golden Age, the Baroque cultural movement, the French Grand Siècle dominated by Louis XIV, the Scientific Revolution, and The General Crisis.

Early hints of Chinoiserie appeared in the 17th century in nations with active East India companies: England ( the British East India Company ), Denmark ( the Danish East India Company ), the Netherlands ( the Dutch East India Company ) and France ( the French East India Company ).

Early European possessions in North America included Spanish Florida, Spanish New Mexico, the English colonies of Virginia ( with its North Atlantic off-shoot, The Somers Isles ) and New England, the French colonies of Acadia and Canada, the Swedish colony of New Sweden, and the Dutch New Netherland.

Early in 1651 Cromwell tried to ease tensions by sending a delegation to The Hague proposing that the Dutch Republic join the Commonwealth and the Dutch would assist the English in conquering most of Spanish America.

The spread of the Dutch or Low German form to Middle Norwegian, Middle Danish and late Middle English or Early Modern English are part of a larger linguistic trend due to the influence of the Hanseatic League during this period.

Early 1672, Downing, who already had made himself profoundly hated by the Dutch population when he was an ambassador in the previous war, had to flee The Hague in fear of his life.

Early settlement attempts by the Dutch included Pavonia ( 1633 ), Vriessendael ( 1640 ) and Achter Col ( 1642 ) but the Native Americans repelled these settlements in Kieft's War ( 1643 – 1645 ) and the Peach Tree War ( 1655 – 1660 ).

:" Early records show the family ensconced in northern Italy in the 16th century where they fought on the side of the Reformation, fled to Holland, intermarried with Dutch burghers ' daughters, picked up the first names of the Low Countries, but retained the Italianate " Fonda ".

Early European settlers included tenants and freeholders from neighboring areas, among them English, Dutch, French Huguenots and Quakers.

Early settlers came from England, but there are also reports of French Huguenots and others including Dutch and Flemish.

"' Outside God there is Nothing ': Swammerdam, Spinoza, and the Janus-Face of the Early Dutch Enlightenment.

" The Early Enlightenment in the Dutch Republic, 1650 – 1750: Selected Papers of a Conference, Held at the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, 22 – 23 March 2001.

Although there was a minor Western influence trickling into the country from the Dutch settlement at Nagasaki, it was the importation of Chinese vernacular fiction that proved the greatest outside influence on the development of Early Modern Japanese fiction.

Already as crown prince Ludwig collected especially Early German and Early Dutch paintings, masterpieces of the Italian renaissance, and contemporary art for his museums and galleries.

The Ghent Altarpiece or Adoration of the Mystic Lamb ( Dutch: Het Lam Gods or The Lamb of God ; completed 1432 ) is a very large and complex Early Flemish polyptych panel painting which is considered to be one of Belgium's masterpieces and one of the world's treasures.

Early depiction of a " Dutch telescope " from 1624.

Early European explorers noted the Chamorros ' fast sailing vessels used for trading with other islands of Micronesia.

Early European explorers to the Americas used the auk as a convenient food source or as fishing bait, reducing its numbers.

Early explorers, including Jacques Cartier and numerous ships attempting to find gold on Baffin Island, were not provisioned with food for the journey home, and therefore used this species as both a convenient food source and bait for fishing.

Early European explorers noted seeps of oil and natural gas in western Pennsylvania and New York.

Early modern maps of Africa from the 15th – 19th centuries, drawn by European cartographers from accounts written by explorers and travellers, reveal some interesting information about Biafra:

Early European explorers reported witnessing mass human sacrifices.

Early French explorers ventured in New France and French Louisiana encountered many rapids and cascades.

" Early explorers such as Allen, Harper and Bates first entered the Tanana Valley in 1875 and 1885.

Early explorers had hoped to follow the Piscataqua River north to Lake Champlain in search of the great lakes and rivers of Canada mentioned in Indian folklore.

Early explorers, finding Indians there growing a native strain of tobacco, named it the Tobacco Plains.

Early explorers of the Pacific Northwest often named sheltered inlets with names beginning with " Port ".

Early French explorers referred to these natives as the Huron, either from the French huron (" ruffian ", " rustic "), or from hure (" boar's head ").

Early European explorers to the New world were also exposed to flint knapping techniques.

Early European explorers report that the island had a number of small chiefdoms or princedoms in the early 16th century.

Early maps of European explorers called the river ( also in combination with the Kansas River ) the River of the Padoucas as its source is located in what was then Padouca ( Comanche ) territory.

Early explorers and European settlers noted that the New Zealand forest had a loud dawn chorus.

Early Spanish explorers called the Southern Paiute Payuchi ( they did not make contact with the Northern Paiute ).

Early Spanish explorers considered the island of little value, partly because the poor soil made growing crops difficult and partly because their attempts to find gold turned up empty-handed.

Early portable stoves burned animal fat and polar explorers continued to use blubber as a supplement for cooking fuel into the early 20th Century.

Early European explorers depended on the assistance of Native American guides — specifically, the Choctaw and Chickasaw.

Early European explorers often adopted the names of tribes from the ethnonyms which other tribes gave them, not understanding that these differed from what the peoples called themselves.

Early European explorers discovered evidence of fish traps located on Emu Point and on French, now Kalgan, River and a small " village " of bark dwellings that were, at the time, deserted.

Early British explorers such as Watkin Tench described them as friendly, saying, " they bade us adieu, in unabated friendship and good humour ".