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Name	Number	Name	Number
Mohammad Al-araj	1	Chris Koekkoek	10
Lana Alkhateb	2	Anouk Kok	11
Lies Bosma	3	Damiën van der Kwast	12
Tycho Content	4	Finn van Leeuwen	13
Juna Da Costa Gomez	5	Daison Polanco Morel	14
Rosaly Deij	6	Jens Postma	15
Eli Hendriks	7	Levy Vos	16
Julia Kaal	8	Sophie Wagteveld	17
Dean Kappert	9

Welcome!

You've made it to the 2nd grade!

Keep these things in mind:

• Everything will be in English. Everything?
• Yes! Everything. 
• History is a course for the first part of the year.

Getting started

• Your textbook.
• Your workbook.
• An empty notebook. (Take notes during the lesson)
•   A  dictionary for the tests. 

Today's lesson

• Lesson objectives
• Recap of last year.
• explanation of 1.1
• time to work
• Check of today's aims.

Lesson objectives.

• How was the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands governed.
• Why did Prince Maurice clash with Johan van Oldebarnevelt.

So were did we left of...

• Place the sources in the right order. Start with the oldest and end with the one that's the most recent. 

• 4 2 3 1

How old is the Netherlands as a country?

A Around a 1000 years old.	B Around a 200 years old.
C Around a 5000 years old.	D Around a 550 years old.

Spanish Empire

The red and the red/white striped parts are part of one empire.

• The royal family was called the Habsbugers.
• The ruled the biggest part of Europe, and some South American countries.

How did they manage to get so much land?

1555

Do you notice anything odd?

So why is this information important?

• The Netherlands was part of the Spanish empire.
• The Dutch revolt against the Spanish King because of freedom of religion and the right to govern themselves. 
• In 1581 the Dutch rejected the Spanish King.
• In 1588 declared themselves a republic.

The Golden Age 17th century.

Do you recognize some words or people?

Government of the Republic

• Every province had it's own government. They were called the Provincial States.
• The men that were members of the Provincial States were called regents.
• The Provincial States send representatives (regents) to the States General. They made discisions concerning war and international trade.

Groningen 

Frisia

Overijssel

Guelders

Utrecht

Holland

Zeeland

The provinvial States

States General

Send regents as representatives.

The Dutch Republic

Go to work.

The  power seemed to be spread equally among the Provincial States, right?

• Wrong! There are some other major players in the Dutch Republic.
• Read "money is power" and "grand pensionary..." on page 8 and 9 and give me the two important functions, and the name of those men. 

• Grand pensionary, Johan van Oldebarnevelt.

• Stadtholder, Maurice of Orange. 

Go to work

• Go to page 5 in your workbook. We'll make the first 3 exercise together.

• Read page 8 and 9.
• Do exercise 1 to 5 in pairs or in a group of three. You can quietly discus with the person next to you

Check!

You have a minute to answer the questions, and you can use your book.

1. Who led the army in times of war? 
2. How were the men called, who had the job to run the Provincial States, and were send to the States General?
3. What did Johan van Oldebarnevelt do to lose his head?

Thanks!

• Make sure you write down your homework (question 1 to 10 of 1.1)
•  put all the chairs and tables back into their original positions.