Age of Kings

Author: (USA) Bliss
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: The 17th century was an era of emperors, a great age that produced geniuses and marked a major turning point in human history: it inherited a tense and conflict-ridden, superstitious world of anarchy; it left the responsibility of building an ordered, rational world to future generations. In the political realm, ambitious rulers and their terrifying rule stemmed from the pursuit of survival laws. During this period, nations and individuals faced threats of anarchy, internal turmoil, and foreign invasions. The winds of conspiracy, assassination, and uprising swept across Europe. In the field of art, Baroque was a widely popular art style in the 17th century. Baroque art often employed dynamic elements such as curves and diagonals, and its style reflected, to some extent, the turbulent situation, uneasy yet prosperous reality of Europe at the time. In the realm of science, the most crucial discoveries of this era were derived from the exploration of motion principles—such as the movement of planets, the movement of geographical objects, the circulation of blood in organisms, and so on.