The Dutch (or Netherlands) had the highest standards of living in the mid 1600's in Europe.
No, Iceland is. Denmark is the 32nd largest country in Europe.
I believe it was Cuba.
Power was centralized in Europe at the turn of the seventeenth century because monarchs were able to afford hired armies. The printing press also allowed them to govern more efficiently.
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Western Europe.
The Baltic states, the Ottoman empire and the Italian city-states were the 3 principal political entities in central and eastern Europe in the mid-seventeenth century. The Ottoman empire dissolved in 1923.