READING
QUESTIONS Leonardo to the Internet: Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present Thomas J. Misa Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022; 3rd edition |
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Discuss military technologies/practices
that helped "the Netherlands" win independence from
Spain.
EXPLAIN
how
the Dutch herring buss and fluit ship [=>]
expressed the imperatives of commerce.
Visit the National Gallery's Dutch paintings: identify
and discuss 2-3 technological activities can you see
in Dutch art (c.1600).
Dutch institutions created a globe-spanning economy in the 17th century. IDENTIFY each and explain its historical SIGNIFICANCE:
DISCUSS where and why
tulips cost more than houses during the "tulip mania"
of the 1630s.
DISCUSS the "traffic system": what
products and processes typified the Dutch 'traffic'
sector?
"Why didn't the Dutch Republic have an
industrial revolution?"
Visit UMN's archived "Trade
Products" in early modern history -- identify 3
or more of the 25 products (beaver ... wool) -- without
a Dutch connection.
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