Which country, alone among the major powers of Europe during the seventeenth century, managed to combine a quasi-republican form of government and a small geographical base with great commercial power, political resilience, and artistic genius?
A) the Netherlands
B) Spain
C) Britain
D) Poland
E) France
Answer: A
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