3.1 Amsterdam: staple market of the world

The Republic in the Golden Age

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The Republic in the Golden Age

3.1 Amsterdam: staple market of the world

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Do we recognise this building?

Slide 3 - Tekstslide

Lesson objective

By the end of this lesson, you can explain how Amsterdam became the staple market of Europe and what impact it had on agriculture in the Republic.

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We're moving!

-Amsterdam was a small rectangular port on the Amstel river until the early 17th century
-Amsterdam became too small
-->city expansion
Between 1610 and 1620
Canals surround the city centre (Singel, Herengracht, Prinsengracht and Keizersgracht)
Rich and poor live and work separately


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Slide 6 - Video

City residents and staple market


- Dutch economy of trade and industry.
- Farmers could no longer provide inhabitants with enough food --> grain imported from the Baltic Sea
- Stored in grain warehouses
- Amsterdam sold this when there was a shortage to other countries.
- With grain from east, immediately iron/wood from Sweden.

Slide 7 - Tekstslide

Baltic Sea Trade

- Wine from France,


- Cloths from Flanders and * Spices from Asia


- Everything was piled up in warehouses --> staple market of Europe


Grain was the main trade product: first and most important international trade of the Dutch around the East Sea for centuries. 

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Slide 9 - Video

Amsterdam is growing tremendously!
- Before Amsterdam, Antwerp was the most important trading city in Europe. Their capital was growing and that's what merchant capitalism was all about.

- When Spanish troops invaded Antwerp in 1585, that changed. Many Antwerp merchants fled to Amsterdam.

- Because of the Antwerp refugees, refugees from other areas and the growth of the birth rate, Amsterdam grew enormously.

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Specialisatie en commerciële landbouw


- People started specialising in crafts: Leiden (Lakenhal) + Haarlem became textile city. Delft = Delft-blue



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Golden Age
Name, later coined for the long period of prosperity and welfare for the Republic in the seventeenth century. 

What about slave trade?

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Homework

Homework for next lesson:
Assignment 1, 2, 3 and 8 of 3.1

Assignments done? No homework!

Slide 13 - Tekstslide

Lesson objective

By the end of this lesson, you can explain how Amsterdam became the staple market of Europe and what impact it had on agriculture in the Republic.

Slide 14 - Tekstslide

Homework
Homework for next lesson:
Assignment 1, 2, 3 and 8 of 3.1

Assignments done? No homework!


Slide 15 - Tekstslide