This post originated from an RSS feed registered with Agile Buzz
by James Robertson.
Original Post: Everything Happened in the 1680s
Feed Title: Cincom Smalltalk Blog - Smalltalk with Rants
Feed URL: http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/rssBlog/rssBlogView.xml
Feed Description: James Robertson comments on Cincom Smalltalk, the Smalltalk development community, and IT trends and issues in general.
I'm reading a nice little book on the last
surge into Europe attempted by the Ottoman Empire -
"The Siege of Vienna". The most interesting aspect of this to me is how many things were going on in Europe at the time - Charles II died, was succeeded by James II - and that precipitated "The Glorious Revolution".Louis XIV was on the throne of France, and his machinations were part of what caught the Habsburgs so off guard with respect to the Ottoman attack (1683).
And of course, European colonial expansion was just starting to
explode at the time. It really was an amazing time period in world
history.
Previous Topic
