16th 17th facts

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In 16th and 17th Century Denmark, merchant ship captains had to pay a toll based on the value of the goods on the ship. The value was declared by the captain. The Danish authorities could take the value based toll (1-2%) or opt to buy the cargo for the declared value.

The "t" in "often" became silent during the 16th and 17th centuries to simplify the word's articulation, but as literacy rose in the 1800s, "t" began to reenter speech as more people became aware of spelling.

In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 39 of the best facts about 16th 17th I managed to collect.

1. Pictures of Muhammad were not forbidden in Islam until the 16th or 17th centuries (and it's not condemned in the Koran)

2. The Portuguese ran a massive slave trade with hundreds of thousands of Japanese slaves in the 16th and 17th centuries

3. The Bible is a book edited in the 17th century from 16th century translations of 8,000 contradictory copies of 4th century scrolls that claim to be copies of lost letters written in the 1st century.

4. He suggested why he went vegetarian in pieces published in Italian daily newspaper La Repubblica and other publications in the 1980s. He said, "A day will come when the thought that to feed themselves, men of the past raised and massacred living beings and complacently exposed their shredded flesh in displays shall no doubt inspire the same repulsion as that of the travellers of the 16th and 17th century facing cannibal meals of savage American primitives in America, Oceania or Africa."

5. The rife between Lilliputians in Gulliver's Travels over the right way to break a boiled egg is a reference to religious feuds between the Protestants and Catholics in England during the 16th and 17th century.

6. Due to numerous, beneficial properties of this plant, rhubarb was more valuable than cinnamon in the 16th century in the France and more expensive than opium in the 17th century in England.

7. 'Mummy Brown'. A rich brown pigment used in paints that was originally made in the 16th and 17th centuries from the ground-up remains of Egyptian mummies, both human and feline. It fell from popularity during the 19th century when its composition became more generally known to artists.

8. During the late 16th and 17th centuries in France, male impotence was considered a crime, as well as legal grounds for a divorce.

9. Mummies were mashed up and routinely ingested in the 16th to 17th centuries as remedies to cure ailments from headaches to ulcers.

10. Potatoes didn't arrive in Europe until the 16th century and what is now the US until the 17th century.

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In 16th and 17th century London, theatre companies were legally allowed to kidnap any child they wanted and force them to act in their productions, where they were often subjected to "systematic exploitation and abuse".

Around the 16th and 17th centuries, Europeans consumed ancient Egyptian mummies as medicine. This is why we have so few mummies left today. - source

The Netherlands used to be ruled by Spain and fought an 80 years' long war to liberate itself from Spain in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. - source

The Hammer of Witches (Malleus Maleficarum). Originally published in 1487, it contributed greatly to the persecution of "witches" in the 16th and 17th centuries.

The Sultanate of Women, a nearly 130-year period in the Ottoman Empire between the 16th and 17th centuries when women of the imperial harem, often of slave origin, held most of the power in the Empire. As most rulers in the era was either incompetent or a minor, the mothers or the wives ruled - source

There was a popular sweet wine drunk in 16th and 17th century Britain called "Bastard", which came in white and brown varieties. It originated in Spain or Portugal and got its name from being a second-rate vintage mixed with honey. Brown Bastard wine is mentioned in Shakespeare's play Henry IV.

In the 16th and 17th century, Church officials planned to turn the Colosseum into a wool factory to provide employment for Rome's prostitutes.

16th to 17th Century Catholics decorated skeletons with jewelry and displayed them in their churches

During the 17th or 16th century BC, the Minoan eruption caused a giant tsunami wave that devastated the Minoan civilization on the island of Crete, Greece. This catastrophic event is believed to have served as the inspiration for Plato's story of Atlantis 2000 years ago.

I learned that Europeans in the 16th and 17th centuries regularly consumed mummies or human remains as medicinal treatments,

The Blood Countess, a woman who tortured and killed hundreds of young girls during the 16th and 17th centuries. Her nickname came because she would also drain and drink the blood of her victims.