4.5 The battle is settled

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The Battle is settled

At the end of this lesson...

• You can describe the battle between the stadtholder and the state attorney through the clash between by using Maurice and Johan van Oldenbarnevelt.

Typical aspects chapter 4!

• the protestant reformation that created a schism in the christian church in Western Europe.
  
• the conflict in the Netherlands that resulted in the establishment of a Dutch state.

STUDY THEM!!!!!!!!

What do you remember about the 80 years war?

Prince Maurice (Maurits)

• William of Orange is succeeded by his son Maurice: he becomes stadtholder.
• He is a great military leader and becomes the leader of the Dutch State army to fight against the Spanish.
• Johan van Oldenbarnevelt leads the States General as the state attorney.

Stadtholder: The highest civil servant of the provincial states and the States General

1600: the beginning of the end

Different!

• Maurice and van Oldenbarnevelt are very different. 
• Oldenbarnevelt wants peace with Spain. This is better for trading.
• Maurice is a military leader....he doesn't want peace.
• 1609-1621: Twelve Year's Truce  
• Maurice tries to find a way to get rid of van Oldenbarnevelt.
• 1618: Maurice starts a coup and beheads van Oldenbarnevelt

Twelve Year's Truce: A truce between the Dutch Republic and Spain, 1609-1621

Remonstrants

Contra-remonstrants

• Arminius
• ''Rekkelijken''
• Van Oldenbarnevelt
• Anti-predestination

• Gomarus
• ''preciezen''
• Maurice
• Predestination

Predestination: Believing that it is decided at birth wether a person will go to heaven or hell. God has already chosen.

During their life on earth, people have no influence over their afterlife...

1619: van Oldenbarnevelt is executed

1648: Peace of Münster

Assignment

Make a meme about the Dutch revolt! 

The meme has to be about an event that took place during the revolt, about a person or both!

Homework

• Make paragraph 4.5 exercise 1 to 6.
• Done? Start making the gap-fill summary.