Lecture 4: Orchids

Question 1

genus tulipa

Answer 1

approx 100 species

-barely domesticated, can be cloned from seeds or bublets

Question 2

tulip cloning

Answer 2

from bulb = 1 -2 year

from seed = 7-8 years to form bulb

Question 3

Slim 2

Answer 3

1574

ordered 50,000 tulips for palace garden

Question 4

Ahmet 3

Answer 4

1703-1730
era known as tulip era
-was hated b/c he was cruel
brought printing press and other western influences
-all tulip varities fell out of favour and disappeared

Question 5

17th centrury amsterdam

Answer 5

first stock market in the world, profit depends on timely trading of shares

• shares bought on IOU
• by the time it was due you could recover some of intial overlay of capital

Question 6

protestant relgion

Answer 6

pastor’s and amsterdam’s municipal officers were against stock market because it threatened social stability

Question 7

windhandel

Answer 7

trading in unpaid shares

-trading in the wind

Question 8

religious tension

Answer 8

cancelled Sinter Klaws

-children rioted

Question 9

tulip mania

Answer 9

first tulips grown by botanist called elusius

-stolen and manipulated plants