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The economic, intellectual, and political relationships shared amongst the cities of The Netherlands in the Early Modern times are an under-studied subject in world history. The urban network in the Netherlands served as a fundamental core of the interconnected economy of the world-system proposed by Immanuel Wallerstein and is a center of gravity in Dutch historiography that merits closer examination. This paper focuses on the role the secondary urban network played in making Amsterdam and the Netherlands a major world power during that country's "Golden Age."