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The Atlantic slave trade, occurring from the late 15th to the mid 19th century and spanning three continents, forcibly brought more than 10 million Africans to the Americas.
In the third century BC, Hieron, king of the Sicilian city of Syracuse, chose Archimedes to supervise an engineering project of unprecedented scale.
The 17th century saw the Netherlands enter the Dutch golden age.
Stocks in new, exciting websites were like the tulips of the 17th century.
And by marrying Elizabeth of York, elder sister of the disappeared Princes, the newly crowned Henry VII joined the two roses, finally ending nearly a century of war.
How about African King Musa Keita I? Ruling the Mali Empire in the 14th century CE, Mansa Musa, or the King of Kings, amassed a fortune that possibly made him one of the wealthiest people who ever lived.
For example, after the 6th century, German words starting with "p," systematically shifted to a "pf" sound while their Old English counterparts kept the "p" unchanged.
And the latest prediction of the UN puts that population number, by the end of this century, at 11 billion, which means that we are going to need a lot more protein.
The Codex Vercellensis is the oldest translation of the Gospels into Latin, and it dates from the first half of the fourth century.
You can see how well that turned out a century later."
The negative impacts of being overweight were not even noted in medical literature until as late as the 18th century.
By the mid 19th century, being excessively overweight, or obese, was recognized as a cause of ill health, and another century later, declared deadly.
One 20th century philosopher even went so far as to describe all of Western philosophy as a series of footnotes to Plato.
Some thinkers have gone on to credit the idea of the noble lie as a prototype for 20th century propaganda, and the philosopher king as inspiration for the dictators that used them.
Fourteen of the 15 of the hottest years ever measured with instruments have been in this young century.
It goes back more than a century.
We're in danger of losing 50 percent of all the living species on earth by the end of this century.
One of the greatest poets of the last century in the US, Wallace Stevens, wrote a line that has stayed with me: "After the final 'no,' there comes a 'yes,' and on that 'yes', the future world depends."
If you can't imagine life without chocolate, you're lucky you weren't born before the 16th century.
By the 20th century, chocolate was no longer an elite luxury but had become a treat for the public.
This puzzle is related to the Hamiltonian path problem named after the 19th century Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton.
In the 9th century during the Tang Dynasty, a Japanese monk brought the first tea plant to Japan.
And in the 14th century during the Ming Dynasty, the Chinese emperor shifted the standard from tea pressed into cakes to loose leaf tea.
The war weakened China's global standing for over a century.
In the 5th century, a mercenary revolt lead by a soldier named Odoacer captured Rome and deposed the Western Emperor.
It wasn't until the mid-20th century we realized that radium's harmful effects as a radioactive element outweighed its visual benefits.
As far back as the 4th century BCE, the Ancient Greeks treated lead to make the brilliant white pigment we know today.
Lead white was the only practical choice for white oil or tempera paint until the 19th century.
Two synthetic greens called Scheele's Green and Paris Green were first introduced in the 18th century.
As a result, 18th century fabric factory workers were often poisoned, and women in green dresses reportedly collapsed from exposure to arsenic on their skin.
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