Bricks History ch. 3 vwo2 questions and well elaborated answers

Bricks History ch. 3 vwo2 questions and well elaborated answers
Provincial States - correct answer-the daily government of a province in the Republic led by
regenten



regenten - correct answer-rich men who had a lot of influence in the daily polotics of the
Republic



Grand Pensionary - correct answer-the political advisor of the States General



Twelve Years' Truce - correct answer-a truce of twelve years in which the Dutch Republic
and Spain tried to negotiate peace



embargo - correct answer-measures taken by a government to restrict the trade of another
country



Peace of Munster - correct answer-a treaty signed by the Dutch Republic and Spain, ending
the Eighty Years' War



sovereign state - correct answer-a state with borders, where a government makes laws
and where people abide by those laws



baltic trade - correct answer-the trade of luxury products in exchange for grain and wood
between the Dutch Republic and countries around the Baltic sea



commercial centre - correct answer-a place where goods from all over the world were
stored and eventually sold throughout Europe



VOC - correct answer-Dutch East India Company; trading company which sailed to the
East-Indies and traded mainly in spices and silk