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In the Dutch Golden Age, which had its zenith in 1667, there was a remarkable flowering of trade, industry ( especially shipbuilding ), the arts ( especially painting ) and the sciences.
The Dutch Republic, particularly Holland and Zeeland, became a veritable Dutch empire, a maritime power with a commercial, imperial and colonial reach that extended to Asia, Africa and the Americas – but not without slavery and colonial oppression.
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