Dutch Golden Age
The Dutch used these to saw wood and pump out water.
What are windmills?
The period of intellectual movement during 1700 & 1800s in which philosophers strived to understanding human behavior & how to improve society using the power of reason & logic
What is the Enlightenment?
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?
The company that had a trade monopoly in Asia and India.
What is the VOC?
During the Golden Age, the centre of European trade moved from Antwerp to this city.
What is Amsterdam?
The first one of these was published during the Enlightenment and was 35 volumes long.
What is the Encyclopedia?
A colony that relied on growing crops as their economy. This growing was usually done by slaves.
What is a plantation colony?
This man was from the House of Orange and was in charge of the military.
Who was the Stadholder?
The company that had a monopoly on trade with the Americas and on slave trade.
What is the WIC?
The Dutch went here to get grain because they could not grow enough on their own.
What is Danzig?
This was a place that wealthy ladies opened up to discuss the new ideas of the time.
What is a salon?
From Europe to West Africa to the Americas.
What is the Triangular Slave Trade?
This man was in charge of policy making in the government and frequently fought with the Stadholder.
Who was the Grand Pensionary?
The VOC had a trade monopoly on this spice.
What is nutmeg?
The Dutch invented this type of ship to get good back with lower taxes.
What is a fluyt ship?
Enlightenment thinkers were often called this.
What are philosophes?
The exclusive right to trade in a good or an area.
What is a trade monopoly?
This government body was made up of representatives from each province in the Netherlands.
What is the Estates General?
These were the main trade good of the WIC.
What are slaves?
This changed from religious to mundane because people could afford to spend more money now.
What is art?
Life, liberty, and property are called this.
What are natural rights?
A government that is almost entirely controlled by the rich people who live there.
What is an oligarchy?
Other countries in Europe had this government structure and did not make as much money because of it.
What is a monarchy?
The VOC was called this because they could declare war and establish colonies but didn't have a people group they had to answer to.
What is a state within a state?