✍️ 1530 SAQ Dutch Commerce
This is a three part SAQ. As your write your essays, ask yourself these questions: Did I answer the question accurately? Did I describe a specific example? Did I explain how my example proves my answer?
"When [the Dutch burgher] goes home from Church, does he take God's Holy Book with him to ponder the sermon? No. Instead he picks up the day's [business] gazette and busies himself the calculations of interest and the liquidation of debts, It would be better [if] on the Lord's Day, he gave some accounting of himself and, instead of reckoning his profits, reckoned up his sins."
"So Amsterdam has risen through the hand of God to the peak of prosperity and greatness..... The whole world stands amazed at its riches and from east to west, north to south they come to behold it. The Great and Almighty Lord has raised this city above all others...yea He has even taken from them the [commerce] of the east and the west (for in former times Lisbon flourished) and has spilled their treasure into our bosom."
Simonides, minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, Four Books on God's Judgment, 1655; Melchior Fokkens, Dutch historian, Description of the Widely Renowned Merchant City of Amsterdam, 1662
Question 1
Describe one important difference between the views of commerce and prosperity expressed in the two passages
Question 2
Explain one factor that likely informed the view of commerce and prosperity expressed in the first passage.
Question 3
Explain one factor that likely informed the view of commerce and prosperity expressed in the second passage.
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