Unit 3 DBQ Commercial and Economic Development

Document 1

Source: Joost van den Vondel, Dutch Poet, poem written to celebrate a visit of the Queen Mother of France to the east India house, 1639.

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Twas not enough they'd won the field in Netherlands;

They sailed the earth to distant and exotic lands,

As far as shines the sun, resolved the sun would see

Their might deeds. Our Holland serves as granary

For all the Indies grow. The North has filled its ships,

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With Eastern crops. The Winter Prince who warms his lips

With pepper, guards in these domains the boast

Of all that heavenly fires of summer cook and roast...

Great Java shares with us her treasures fair,

And Shina, porcelain. We Amsterdammers journey

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Where Ganges casts its waters down into the sea:

Wherever profit leads us, to every sea and shore,

For love of gain the wide world's harbours we explore.

Document 2

Source: Jean Baptiste Colbert, Finance Minister to Louis XIV, Memoir of 1763

It is almost certain that every State, in proportion to its grandeur and extent, is sufficiently provided in its own territory with the means of subsistence; provided that these means are well and faithfully administered. 

Document 4

Source: Jethro Tull, British agriculturist, Horse-Hoeing Husbandry, 1733

All sorts of dung and compost contain some matter which, when mixed with the soil, ferments therein; and by such ferment dissolves, crumbles, and divides the earth very much. This is the chief and almost only used of dung. … This proves, that its (manure) use is not to nourish, but to dissolve, i.e., divided the terrestrial matter, which affords nourishments to the Mouths of vegetable roots. His underestimate of the value of manure.

Document 5

Source: Lémery, Louis, A Treatise of all Sorts of Foods, Both Animal and Vegetable, 1745

Coffee fortifies the Stomach and Brain, promotes Digestion, allays the Head-ach, suppresses the Fumes caused by Wine, and other spiritous  Liquors; promotes Urine and Womens Terms, opens some Peoples Bodies, makes the memory and Fancy more quick, and People brisk that drink it:  This last Effect has been observed, say they, by the Shepherds of Africa, who took Notice, that before Coffee was used, and that their Sheep fed upon this Kind of Pulse, that the skipped about strangely.