According to the textbook, what were some of the important historical developments that shaped European culture in the seventeenth century?

In the arts, the Baroque dominated the century. The Baroque is characterized by ornamentation and exhuberance in the works of art.

In the sciences, Newton and Leibniz developed calculus. Newton also discovered the Laws of Motion and Universal Gravitation.

In philosophy, Descartes inagurated a new era for European philosophy. Before him, philosophy had been dominated by Aristotle.

The European powers set the colonization of the Americas in full motion and the Columbian exchange became widespread in the two continents.