Question

Gaspar Ducci was banned from this city for three years after cornering its money market and stopping trade entirely. Christophe Plantin’s polyglot bible was published in this city, where heretic William Tyndale got temporary sanctuary. The Merchant Adventurers were founded in this city, where the creator of the utopian alphabet, Peter Giles, introduced Thomas More to Raphael Hythloday. This city’s Bourse inspired Thomas Gresham’s design for the (*) Royal Exchange. Abraham Ortelius created the world’s first Atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, in this city, whose diamond (-5[1])district is the world’s busiest. This city’s economic boom hastened (-5[1])when Maximilian I ordered all foreign merchants to move fifty miles east to this city from Brussels. For 10 points, the Spanish Fury took place in what Belgian city? ■END■ (10[1]0[3])

ANSWER: Antwerp
<Emmett Laurie, European History>
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