Antwerp's golden age
c. 1500-1585 · Event
For most of the sixteenth century Antwerp is Europe's counting-house: sugar, silver, spices and the first true commodity bourse — until war closes the Scheldt.
On these timelines: The Low Countries, Master, Economic History
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