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What major events happened in the 1500s?
1500s–1600s Portugal, Spain, England, and France establish the slave trade from Africa to bring workers to sugar and tobacco plantations in South America and the Caribbean, and later to the cotton plantations in the southern U.S. religious Reformation begins. Protestant religions emerge in Europe.
What was created in 1500?
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| 1500 | The first flush toilets appeared. |
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| 1510 | Leonardo da Vinci designs a horizontal water wheel. Pocket watch invented by Peter Henlein. |
| 1513 | Urs Graf invents etching. |
| 1568 | Bottled beer invented in London. |
| 1569 | Gerard Mercator invents Mercator map projection. |
What was the time period between 1500 and 1800?
The cultural history of this three-hundred-year epoch can most easily be understood as divided into two periods: between the accession of the Tudors (1485) and the conclusion of Cromwell’s campaign (1650), and between the subsequent plantation and the Act of Union (1800).
What was the world like in the 1500s?
After 1500, world regions—such as West Africa, East Asia, and South America—fused together into one global trade system. For the first time in history, each region of the world now interacted with the others. For example, enslaved African labor was used in South American plantations to sell cheap sugar to Europe.
What was the Great Vowel Shift in the 15th century?
The Great Vowel Shift. (from ELLO) A major factor separating Middle English from Modern English is known as the Great Vowel Shift, a radical change in pronunciation during the 15th, 16th and 17th Century, as a result of which long vowel sounds began to be made higher and further forward in the mouth (short vowel sounds were largely unchanged).
Why did English pronunciation change in the 1500s?
The causes of the shift are still highly debated, although an important factor may have been the very fact of the large intake of loanwords from the Romance languages of Europe during this time, which required a different kind of pronunciation.