Netherlands+1450-1700

CHART: CHARACTERISTICS OF A CIVILIZATION OR CULTURE NAME: _Katherine Kob___ PERIOD:__ DATE: __ · **Leaders, Elites** · **State Structure** · **War** · **Diplomacy, Treaties** · **Courts, Laws** || ** Hapsburg Family-absolute monarchy, Charles V ** · **Type of System** · **Technology, Industry** · **Trade, Commerce** · **Capital/Money** · **Ty** ||  || · **Family** · **Gender Relations** · **Social Classes** · **Inequalities** · **Life Styles** || ** Merchants dominated elite social class ** · **Art, Music** · **Writing, Literature** · **Philosophy** · **Math & Science** · **Education** || ** Renaissance Humanism ** · **Location** · **Physical** · **Movement** · **Human/Environment** · **Region** ||  || Dutch 1450-1700
 * =POLITICAL=
 * War against Spanish monarchy, Seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands 1519-1591 **
 * Dutch Republic 1581-1795, the Hague ** ||
 * =ECONOMIC=
 * || ** Calvanism was dominant **
 * Catholic Church more or less surpressed after the 80 years war ** ||
 * == SOCIAL ==
 * Clergy did not have much influence **
 * Paupers – peasants **
 * Divisions of class less defined, easier social mobility ** ||
 * == INTELLECTUAL, artS ==
 * Pendelum clock invented by the Dutch **
 * Still life, landscape, and genre painting, church art was virtually non existent **
 * Rembrandt ** ||
 * == NEAR: GEOGRAPHY ==