How did the Dutch create a colonial empire?

How did the Dutch create a colonial empire?
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The Dutch Seaborne Empire: 1600-1800 by C. R. Boxer

Hunt, John (2005). Campbell, Heather-Ann, ed. Dutch South Africa: Early Settlers at the Cape, 1652-1708. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 13–35. ISBN 978-1904744955.

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[bestgameplay]

Spain: *you cant trade anymore*
The Netherlands: *takes over the whole trade*

[historywithhilbert]

By repeatedly playing Het Wilhelmus until they submitted.

[starhawck]

The World: exists*

Europeans: "It's free real estate"

[Ned-nwge]

Random fact, after the 80 years war the Dutch had their Golden Age (a huge increase in wealth and power) but during that time they were almost constantly at war with well basically the rest of Europe.

[andyish]

The Dutch are one of the most underrated nations when it comes to the influence on general history. For many centuries they imported English wool to manufacture cloth and later taught the English to do that themselves. Now wool exportation and processing were the most important drivers of wealth in medieval and early modern England. To the video let me add that remote and rough places like Cape Horn or Tasmania are named by Dutch explorers and that New York was New Amsterdam before. In the XVII century the Netherlands were a place in which very influential philosophers like Descartes (French), Spinoza (Jewish), Locke (English) could find conditions for free thought and publication (measured by the standards of the times). The direct and indirect Dutch impulse defined the way the Enlightenment got going, as one the leading scholars on its history, Jonathan Israel, keeps pointing out in his masterful works.

[orionise]

That one friend who takes a piece of everything = Colonial Netherlands

[InspectHistory]

Wkwkwkw (ID) here,
This topics is really interesting for Indonesian, thanks for making this .. I hope more of my countryman learn about this 🤓

[HistoryHustle]

Great job in explaining the build-up of the Dutch colonial empire. The biggest colony became the Dutch East Indies, but it took them a long time (til beginning 20th Century) to gain control over the whole archipelago. Yet, even then, not every corner of the Dutch East Indies was under full control at any given time. Looking forward to the next episode!

[hiddevanrenssen]

This comment section is G E K O L O N I S E E R D by the Dutch.

[HaakSO]

The Dutch also had a trading post at Nagasaki, Japan, unfortunately not shown on the map in this video. The Japanese kicked the Portuguese out of Nagasaki in 1639, handing the Dutch a trade monopoly through the only port in Japan open to Europeans.

[peterversteg]

It looks like the Dutch owned rather random small pieces of land. But they weren't that interested in land, they were interested in controlling seas. Most of the land were merely trading outposts. The Dutch hardly had a land army (it had a small population) while it did have the strongest navy. As such controlling seas makes more sense than controlling land.

[teviottilehurst]

We Brits like the Dutch more than any other Europeans.

[SerGio-mwpc]

I've always pay close attention everytime there is video talking about the Dutch colonial history, because its history also impacted my home country Indonesia.

[sriharshacv]

Interesting to note that even a tiny nation in Europe was able to become a global player while mighty kingdoms in India found themselves annexed by British. It is easy to see how Europeans were tempted to believe they are racially superior. While the true driver might be the competitive advantage they possessed by building a self enhancing cycle of colonial revenue sponsoring technological and scientific improvements which in turn powered more colonization, it is easy to miss that and blame the ineptitude of colonial subjects. EDIT: It was apparent when French lost their own home territory when they found a more motivated foe in Germany who was tech heavy and militarily more aggressive.

[floriangrey]

During the war against Spain the Dutch found they could put their entire land under water to keep the Spanish out and it worked. In the southeren provinces of the United Netherlands, wich is nowadays Belgium, the land could not be put under water and we stayed under the rule of Spain. That's why Belgium remained catholic and the Netherlands protestant/calvinistic. Groeten aan de halfbroeders in Nederland :-)

[skeletonrowdie]

sick video man! great one! as a dutch person i don't know a lot about this.. tho i kind of feel pride hearing about william of orange and their total motivation for real independence

[faunatique]

Dutch windmills had to do with this, it created them land and more importantly they converted it into a woodsaw mechanic creating ships much faster than the rest of world with less men

[MrBigCookieCrumble]

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[bconni]

with the exception of a few Islands in the Caribbean, almost everything associated with the Dutch empire was intertwined with Portugal in some way or another. even the founders of New Amsterdam ( New York city ) were Dutch colonists who initially attempted to form a colony in Brazil but were expelled by the Portuguese. in quite gruesome fashion, actually

[daddyleon]

That this was all done by...companies...makes it look sooo fucking weird. As if a different universe seeped in. A universe where companies not nations or kingdoms rule.