Dutch Golden Age
The period of time where the Dutch experience prosperity and cultural development during the 17th century.
What is the Dutch Golden Age?
These people in the government led to the Dutch gaining more money.
What are merchants?
Peter the Great forced Russians to accept social reforms that would make their culture more like that of ________.
What was Western Europe?
Dutch art centered on this aspect of life.
What is daily life?
The French Royal family that had a lot of men named Louis.
What are the Bourbon's?
The Dutch used these to saw wood and pump out water.
What are windmills?
A government that is almost entirely controlled by the rich people who live there.
What is an oligarchy?
Event which marked the end of the English Civil War.
What was the execution of King Charles I in 1649?
This genre of Dutch Golden Age painting focused on quiet scenes of middle-class domestic life, emphasizing order, morality, and everyday routines.
Genre painting
The English, under Elizabeth I, helped the Dutch against this naval power.
What was the Spanish Armada?
During the Golden Age, the centre of European trade moved from Antwerp to this city.
What is Amsterdam?
The company that had a trade monopoly in Asia and India.
What is the VOC?
Dutch leader who became king of England after the Glorious Revolution.
Who was William of Orange?
This Dutch painter became famous for his masterful use of light and shadow in works like The Night Watch.
Who was Rembrandt (van Rijn)?
This monarch abolished serfdom in Austria.
Who was Joseph II?
Despite being Protestant, the Dutch Republic was known for this policy toward religious minorities.
What is religious tolerance?
This government body was made up of representatives from each province in the Netherlands.
What is the States General?
He led the Roundheads and became Lord Protector of England.
Who was Oliver Cromwell?
He was known for his incredible display of lights in his works and painted the Girl with the Pearl Earring.
Who was Vermeer?
European monarch who described his role as "I am the state?"
Who is Louis XIV (14)?
The Dutch invented this type of ship to get good back with lower taxes.
What is a fluyt ship?
The Dutch lost many of their overseas possessions to this rising European power by the late 17th century.
Who was England / Great Britain?
Finance minister under Louis XIV who strengthened the French economy through mercantilist policies.
Jean Baptiste Colbert
English civil war broke out between supporters of the king and supporters of this body over questions of representation in government.
What was Parliament?
Catholic King of Spain that launched the Spanish Armada to invade England.
Who was Philip II?