European History

Dutch Revolt: 17 provinces that felt no tie with eachother southern provinces bakers trade w. Venice and northern benefit from shift of commerce: each a small state or country within itself:each enjoyed medieval liberties,privileges and immunities including the right to preserve its own law and consent to its own taxes. Only common bond was the same ruler Philip was a fervent catholic?eliminated reformation..golden age (silver mines @ potosi) religious issue still dominates?loyalty to religion rather than nation After 1560 when the French religious wars began a great many French Calvinists fled across the borders: at first probably more calvinists in the southern provinces than in the northern calvinisim becomes the greater agitator