🟣 1600s: empires collide, science is born · 1600 – 1649
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This space holds 5 stories.
🟣 Dot 1 · 1600s
1602The Dutch East India Company offers the first “public shares”, letting ordinary people buy a tiny piece of a company — the birth of the stock market.
📍 Address: Space 13 · Dot 1 (1602)
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🟣 Dot 2 · 1610s
1618When Protestant nobles throw the Catholic emperor’s men out a castle window in Prague, a fight over one empire and two religions explodes into the Thirty Years’ War.
📍 Address: Space 13 · Dot 2 (1618)
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🟣 Dot 3 · 1620s
1620Puritan separatists cross the Atlantic to build in North America what Calvin had attempted in Geneva: an entire community ordered around strict Protestant faith and discipline.
📍 Address: Space 13 · Dot 3 (1620)
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🟣 Dot 4 · 1630s
1633Galileo’s telescope overturns the ancient understanding that the Earth is the center of the universe; threatened by the Inquisition, he publicly recants.
📍 Address: Space 13 · Dot 4 (1633)
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🟣 Dot 5 · 1640s
1644General Wu Sangui invites the Manchu army into China to defeat the rebel who had kidnapped his beloved… only to watch the Manchu conquer all of China for themselves.
📍 Address: Space 13 · Dot 5 (1644)
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