6.2: a World Economy - Q -

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AGE 6. The Time of Regents and Monarchs

6.2 A World Economy

Practise Questions

1a) Why did Antwerp merchants need to find another city for their trade?

1b) Which two products were imported in the Republic from the Baltic?

2. Which of the following sentences is true?

1. In the Baltic Trade, Dutch merchants would trade with East Prussia and Poland
2. The Dutch merchants brought wood and grain and traded these for luxury products
3. The goods that were brought back were immediately sold to other countries
4. Merchants stored a lot of grain so they could help other countries when a famine broke out

3. Which text about the development of Amsterdam is correct?

1. a new defensive wall was built around the new quarters
2. new quarters arose behind a new defensive wall

4. Put the events in the correct chronological order

Westerkerk 

Jordaan

the Townhall 

(Paleis op de Dam)

extension of the Heren-, Keizers- en Prinsengracht

Prinsengracht

5a. What was the main function of the
Amsterdam canal system?

1. people could more easily travel around Amsterdam using the canals
2. troops could be transported to the defensive walls quickly in wartime
3. products could be brought to and stored into the warehouses
4. merchants could travel easily to the markets of the city with their products

5b. So, the function of the canals was mainly:

1. economical
2. military
3. religious
4. communicative

6. Why did the States General decide to form
one big trading company?

7a) The VOC had a monopoly.
This means that that the VOC was the only Dutch company allowed to trade spices in the East Indies.

1. TRUE
2. FALSE

7b) What are shares?

1. parts of a company that the company shares with other companies
2. products from a company that you can buy
3. parts of a company that you can buy and sell
4. products from a company that are stored in warehouses

7c) Why did the VOC issue shares?

7d) Did people who bought a VOC share have faith in the success of this company? Explain.

7e) Today people still buy and sell shares.
Can you think of a modern company that sells shares?

7f) Suppose someone gives you € 5,000,- to buy shares,
which company would you choose? Why?

8a) "The VOC had many privileges"
What are privileges?

8b) The VOC was a multinational.
What is a multinational?

1. a company that only sells local products in one village or city
2. a company that sells products all over the country
3. a company that sells products in different countries all over the world
4. a company that sells products no other company sells

8c) Name two modern multinationals

8d) What privileges did the VOC have that
modern multinationals do NOT have?

9a) What was the main reason the VOC decided to
colonize the trading posts in the East Indies?

9b). Why did Coen want to control the Banda Islands?

9c) Today many Dutch cities have a street named
after Coen.
Write down one reason why you think
this is a good thing and one reason why
it is a bad thing.

10a) Why did the States General allow privateering for the WIC?

10b) After 1648, the WIC started to concentrate less on
privateering and more on slave trade.
Can you explain this?

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