Women started outliving men, and inheriting their lands and businesses. Church and state interests wanted to regain economic control, and found it easy to prey on lonely widows. When the women were accused of witchcraft, their properties could be seized and given away.
The white plantation owners wanted to save money by not paying their workers so they decided to buy slaves. In the 1600's and 1700's there were lots of slaves for sale in Africa so the white people bought slaves from other Africans.
Several years ago Krause Publishing split the World Coin book into several sections, each covering a century of coins ... 1601-1700, 1701-1800, etc. ... so now it takes 6 books to cover everything. These books are available on Amazon here : http://www.workingmancoins.com/Books/index.htm
People believed that witches were around in the 17th century due to there being many rumours going around that old women who had black cats and had a cauldron were witches. For testing these rumours there were two methods that they used, swimming a witch and burning them alive. Swimming a witch was when they tied up the person that they thought was a witch and placed them on the water. If they floated they were a witch because the water didn't want witches in the water and later on they would be burnt alive. If they drowned they were innocent but they died anyway because nobody fetched them out the water. So basically if they were accused of being a witch they would die.
the general public's idea of witches isn't entirely correct, they never flew on brooms, had green skin or tons of warts. and most likely no witches were accused or killed in the Salem Witch Trials. I think that people believe all that because of people tainting the stories and twisting things up to make it sound better to them.
His purpose was to conquer the Taino tribe and colonized the region. This voyage was a massive effort bringing horses, sheep, and cattle and settlers. In February 1495 he took 1600 Arawak slaves. Of these 500 were sent to Spain, 200 died on the way. The rest were kept slaves for the settlers.
1600 was a leap year. 1700 and 1800 were not because they were not divisible by 400. If a year is divisible by 100, but not by 400, then it is not a leap year. That is the rules of a leap year. So 1600 was, but 1700, 1800 and 1900 were not; 2000 was and 2100 will not be.
There was not a "Queen of Italy" beetween 1600 and 1700. Italy was not a unified nation at that time. There were different Italian states such as the Republic of Venice, Republic of Genoa, Dukedom of Tuscany, the Papal State and so on.
they were like crap because of harsh winters so they were a pain in the a** so hope you learned
People were scared of what witches could or would do with their power. They considered all witches evil, which was not, in fact, the case. Indeed, there were evil witches, but there were also good witches.
because people were accused of doing feats that were seemingly impossible at the time. They were then accused of witchcraft and sentenced to death. I think they were tied to a post. Their feet werent touching the ground, and then the villigers piled wood beneath them and lit it on fire wounding and eventually killing the accued. But that was irrelivant so i must move onto topic.But yes, i think that's why they believed in witches at the time. But witches were already a word before the 1600's so the people became suspicious of the "witches'' after som smarticle came up with the legend of the witches to get the people all scared and stuff.
There are 100 cm in one meter, so 1600 cm = 16 meters
10 dimes = 1 dollar So 1600 dime = 160 dollars
That would be the 20th Century. To figure out centuries, it's always a number up. Like the 1500's is the 16th century, 1600's are the 17th, 1700's are the 18th and so on and so on.
There are many people whom identify as a Witch today. Some of these people are also known as Wiccans however not all Witches are Wiccans.
There are 400 gallons. 4 quarts = 1 gallon. So 1600 divided by 4 = 400
People back during the Salem Witch Trials became so paranoid that they thought anyone acting strangely were witches.
When western merchants reached China in the 1600's and 1700's they were at first surprised to find so many people in one place. They traded tea and spices with the Chinese at that time.