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In the middle of the 16th century, in the south of current the Ghana, is established several chefferies Ashanti of which those of the Adansi, the Denkyéra and the Akwamou.

Madagascar: In the middle of the century, the Hova of the Rafohy queen and her Rangita daughter occupy the Imerinanjaka, in the center of the island. They are at the origin of the kingdom Mérina. The son of Rangita, Andriamanato, introduced the use of iron into the kingdom and extends his territory towards north where it establishes his capital with Alasora.

Missions of Jesuits in Ethiopia until in 1633: the Paez father, D' Almeida, the Medez patriarch collect many information which makes it possible the Occident to better know the country. They maintain the residences with Frémona, close to Adoua, then in the Godjam and close to the Lac Tanned. They have a command of the Guèze and the spoken language, the Amharique, in which they preach and write biblical and theological comments or works of controversy accessible to the people. The national Church reacts, and requires of the Négus Claude to make burn the new writings. This one does not yield, but professes in writing its fidelity with the Church of Alexandria.

Apogee of the profits of the raids of the Flibustier S against the Spanish convoys (1550 - 1560).

Persecutions mariannes () , at the origin of the Anglo-Saxon expression of Bloody Mary . illustration on the right

the Hungary is practically entirely acquired with the Réforme. The Calvinisme is diffused among the Magyars of all conditions. The king Jean Sigismond allows the diffusion of the Luthéranisme in Transylvania and the secularization of the goods of the Church the profit of the lords.

Organization of a defensive line at the Othoman border in Hungary, of Fiume (Rijeka) in Szathmar (currently Satu Pond). It consists of castles held by often foreign garrisons. Around them extend from the populated military cantons of peasants escaping from the drudgeries and the feudal obligations against service from the military service to the captains from the castles. This population is very diverse: it counts Hungarian peasants or Austrians fleeing perpetual serfdom (the Haïdouks in Eastern Hungary), of Serb come from the Ottoman Empire ( Uskok , taken refuge). In addition to their local obligations, they provide soldiers for the imperial army, forming Croat the regiments, the hussards.

the France account 19,5 million inhabitants (current borders).
Paris, Lyon, Rouen, Toulouse and Marseilles exceeds 20 000 inhabitants.
the English population passes from three to ten million inhabitants between 1550 and 1815.

the nobility has 22% of the ground in Sweden.
the minor nobility of Bohemia account 1445 families, which decimated by the wars and the epidemics will be only 625 one century later.

One month is necessary to cross the France of north to the south and three weeks and half of is in west. The forests still cover a third of the territory.
Beginning of the policy of plantation (confiscation of the grounds to the profit of English or Scottish immigrants) in the south of the Ireland.
Reduction in the breeding of the horses with Cyprus with the profit of the mules and mules.
commercial Prosperity of Smyrna, at the end of the terrestrial roads of Minor Asia.

the Turkish fleet of the Mediterranean, taking into account the barbaresque corsairs, includes/understands 200 galères. Venice arms approximately 150 galères, the largest fleet of the Mediterranean after Turkish. The Spain has 50 galères, pope 30, Andrea Doria 50, the allied France with the Turks, 30 to 40.

Roman Building site: 64 churches, including 10 large, the Saint-Pierre basilica, 4 important palates and 60 more modest, of many rental houses, the streets, the places, the whole districts will be built until in 1650.

First collections of ballade in Scandinavia (1550 - 1650), generally manuscripts, taking again made up songs with and 14th century for the aristocratic circles, then widespread in popular environments.

According to the historians Polish, in 1550 - 1580, 25% of the population can read and write. The university of Cracow still gives its Latin teaching in , but the Protestants create secondary schools (the academy calvinist of Pinczow, close to Cracow, the gymnasia Lutherans of Danzig, Thorn, Elbing) where teaching is carried out in Polish. Young Polish attends the universities of Padoue and Boulogne for the right, of the Sorbonne for theology, and the Protestant centers of Tübingen and Basle.

In Spain, beginning of the constitution of the general Romancero , collection of poems gathering the historical and legendary facts country.

the Pleiad: Pierre de Ronsard, Joachim of Bellay, Pontus de Tyard, Jean Antoine de Baïf, then in 1553, Etienne Jodelle, Bastier of Péruse, Remy Belleau, Jacques Furrier of Mans, Guillaume of the Furnace bridges.

Production of brandy in Saintonge for export to the Netherlands as of second half of the 16th century.
Appearance of the first blast furnaces in France. France has thirteen foundries of guns then.

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