🌀 Big Spiral History 🟣 Space 14

Space 14: The Early Modern IV

1650s: coffeehouses, microscopes, and Louis XIV

1650 – 1699

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Space 14: The Early Modern IV

🟣 1650s: coffeehouses, microscopes, and Louis XIV · 1650 – 1699

Each dot below is an address on your wall. Read the story, talk it through, draw a small icon, tape it at the dot.

This space holds 5 stories.

🟣 Dot 1 · 1650s

1657 After decades of war, Queen Njinga forces Portugal to recognize her nation’s independence, shielding her subjects from enslavement.

📍 Address: Space 14 · Dot 1 (1657)

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🟣 Dot 2 · 1660s

1666 Watching an apple fall, Isaac Newton realizes that things on Earth and things in the heavens obey the same mathematical laws.

📍 Address: Space 14 · Dot 2 (1666)

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🟣 Dot 3 · 1670s

1675 Metacom, son of the Native chief who once fed the Pilgrims, leads a desperate uprising to drive the English into the sea.

📍 Address: Space 14 · Dot 3 (1675)

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🟣 Dot 4 · 1680s

1682 French King Louis XIV moves his court to Versailles, where France’s nobles stop ruling from their own estates and begin scrambling for access to him.

📍 Address: Space 14 · Dot 4 (1682)

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🟣 Dot 5 · 1690s

1697 Peter the Great slips out of Russia in disguise to study the shipyards of Europe, then comes home determined to drag his vast, backward-looking nation into the modern age.

📍 Address: Space 14 · Dot 5 (1697)

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