Was the First Anglo-Dutch War a world war?

Could the First Anglo-Dutch War be considered an early world war?

No. It was a regional war spanning northern European and Mediterranean waters, not a conflict fought across the world's major oceanic theatres.

The answer rejects the suggestion that the First Anglo-Dutch War should be counted as an early world war. Its major actions extended beyond the Channel into the North Sea and Mediterranean, which made it geographically broad for a naval conflict. World-war language is reserved here for fighting that also reaches the Caribbean, North America, Africa, the Indian Ocean, and Southeast Asia. The distinction measures the war's commercial reach without exaggerating the number of global theatres in which fleets actually fought.