In the fourteenth century, Europe was ravaged by a terrible disease that claimed millions of victims: the plague. The church viewed this Black Death as a punishment from God.

In the sixteenth century, the Eighty Years' War broke out. A struggle forever linked to the name of Willem of Orange.

The Netherlands became a world power in the 17th century, thanks to a spirit of trade, but primarily through plunder and war. A small elite became fabulously wealthy through the exploitation and oppression of others.