Dutch+and+Thirty+Years'+War

**Guided Reading: 549-553 The Dutch Republic**
1. How did the government of the Netherlands work (explain the make up/role of the provincial governments and the States General)?

2. What noble family held the position of stadholder in all the provinces?

3. What accounts for the political success of the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century?

4. What was the religious landscape of the Dutch Republic like?

5. Why was the Bank of Amsterdam so powerful?

6. What products/industries fueled the Dutch economy? Why were they so dominant?

7. What examples are given of the high standard of living in the Dutch Republic of the seventeenth century?

**Guided Reading: 562-565 The Thirty Years’ War**
1. Why had Catholics and Protestants in the Holy Roman Empire in the years following the 1555 Peace of Augsburg grown uneasy? What alliances did each side form?

2. What events sparked the initial fighting of the war?

3. List the four phases of the war and the BASIC characteristics of each (who was fighting whom and which side “won”).

4. What did the 1648 Peace of Westphalia say? In what ways was it an important turning point?

5. What toll did the Thirty Years’ War take on central Europe?