Meanwhile…

Loss of capital status to Saint Petersburg

1712

Kyōhō reforms under shogun Yoshimune

circa 1716-1745

wars and competition with England

1652-1784

Jesuit Missions Spread Catholicism to Asia and the Americas

mid-1500s to 1700s

The Enlightenment

ca. 1715 – 1789

Cotton Textile Boom Reshapes Indian and European Markets

circa 1700

agricultural revolution in Europe

ca. 1700 – 1770

Diverse reef fauna colonizes coral ecosystems

from around 485 million years ago to the present

spread of variolation against smallpox

rond 1720

Capoeira develops among enslaved Africans in Brazil

around the 16th to 19th century

First European Contact and Early Written Accounts of Haka

1642–1770

Irish riverdance evolves from folk roots to global phenomenon

from the 18th century to 1994 and beyond

The survival of the birds

vanaf ca. 66 miljoen jaar geleden