In 1215, King John was forced to accept the Magna Carta - a document that limited the king's power and was proposed by the nobles.
People living in the 16th century (15 hundreds) would be interested in order, religion, formal perfection, classical themes . . . I am thinking from the English and American Literature perspective. During this era, the people distrusted originality until the 19th century. Hopefully this helps Olympus
If I'm right, I think they lived in 18th century England! You're right. Technically, highwaymen are robbers who prey on the travellers of roads, and they can exist in any time or place that roads exist, but the ones in 18th Century England are the most remembered.
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The Sans Culottes
Chinese people seeking freedom from religious persecution during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
The history of coffee goes back at least to the thirteenth century. It is believed to have originated in Ethiopia and became a crop for Arabs in the fourteenth century. The earliest acknowledgement of people drinking coffee is attributed Sufi monasteries in the fifteenth century.
The English language is named after the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes that invaded England in the 5th century.
Chinese people seeking freedom from religious persecution during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
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When the middle ages began, people in the West were using Roman numerals, and those in the East were using the vaguely similar Greek numerals. Arabic numerals were introduced through Spain in the eleventh Century and had sufficiently great advantage that many people had switched by the end of the thirteenth century.
Magna Carta of 1215
Some say it derives from the bible. Jesus says something like that his thirteenth disciple will have betrayed him. The thirteenth being Judas.
Debates, lyrical ballads, didactic and religious poems were the popular types of literature in the thirteenth century.