The Dutch Colonial Empire: Small Metropole, Big Ambitions

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  • Опубликовано: 28 ноя 2024

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  • @remcohoman1011
    @remcohoman1011 18 дней назад +42

    Australia was New Holland, New Zealand is the rename of the Islands after Dutch provence of Zeeland, Tasmania named after Dutch Abel Tasman, Easter Island discovered 1722 by Dutch Jacob Roggeveen on Easterday.
    Selling guns and ammuntion to the American rebels fighting the British, and by doing so..helping America gain its independance, Netherlands being the first Nation to officially recognise America as a souvereign natioion by saluting the American Brig Andrew Doria, which had as coincedence The Declaration of Independance on board.. After WW II Dwight D Eisenhower revealed a plaquette at Dutch Carabean Island St.Eustacius to commemorate it.

    • @e.w.3819
      @e.w.3819 14 дней назад +3

      You forget we traded for nearly 200 years as only Western Country with the Japanese.

    • @lucm159
      @lucm159 14 дней назад +1

      Its a 12 minute video, calm down

    • @Donello
      @Donello 14 дней назад

      @@e.w.3819 What about the Portuguese?

    • @MappingEagle
      @MappingEagle 13 дней назад +1

      I think Morocco was actually the first country to recognize the US, wasn't it?

    • @lucm159
      @lucm159 13 дней назад

      @@MappingEagle yes

  • @harcovanhees394
    @harcovanhees394 20 дней назад +17

    Small addition: The Dutch also had the exclusive access to Japan and had a small Harbour on the isle Dejima (Desima). Another Dutch harbour was made on Svalbard (Spitsbergen) for the Dutch who went for whale hunting.
    No settlements but the Dutch also discovered Australia an Tasmanië (named after captain Abel Tasman)

    • @e.w.3819
      @e.w.3819 14 дней назад +1

      Dejima was the harbour. Was very small island, originally used by the Portugese. But they got expelled after they try to push religion. And was then given to the Dutch.

    • @tygodegier3110
      @tygodegier3110 12 дней назад

      ​@e.w.3819 we were just there to sell guns and western technology for the good stuff 🤝

    • @mackjigger6030
      @mackjigger6030 2 дня назад

      6:12 that`s the location of Deshima, Nagasaki, pretty accurate

  • @jappiejojo777
    @jappiejojo777 22 дня назад +50

    We beat Spain so hard they’ve been second rate power ever since

    • @AlejandroJavierHernandez-si4qz
      @AlejandroJavierHernandez-si4qz 15 дней назад

      Or, if you change the Angle, Spain,Portugal,England & France prevented The Netherlands from becoming world dictators. 👍🏻

    • @tylerclayton6081
      @tylerclayton6081 15 дней назад +2

      All of Europe is a second rate power at this point. Europe’s share of the global economy continues to decline. The USA’s GDP is now larger than the entire continent of Europe combined. And that gap will continue grow over the next few decades due to very low productivity growth and very low birth rates in Europe

    • @Guillaume2606
      @Guillaume2606 14 дней назад

      ​@@tylerclayton6081 Under the new chosen orange moron the USA will go bankrupt within a few years!

    • @henkmertens7120
      @henkmertens7120 13 дней назад +11

      ​@@tylerclayton6081and now another story about the American debt, which is now so high that the country is actually bankrupt.

    • @NewNetherlandNow
      @NewNetherlandNow 13 дней назад +3

      @@tylerclayton6081 That might be true, European quality of life is a lot higher yet America has more space to grow. I've lived in both places for years and both have benefits that can't be found in the other.

  • @remcohoman1011
    @remcohoman1011 18 дней назад +22

    And what about "The Raid of the Medway" Where the dutch sailed up the river Thames and humiliated the British Navy in their own waters, capturing the Flagship and used it as a tourist atraction, and later scrapped it, but kept the stern which is still in Amsterdam...

    • @Bundy72
      @Bundy72 8 дней назад +4

      Such an humiliation by a small country will be gladly forgotten.

    • @keesvanwesterop2954
      @keesvanwesterop2954 3 дня назад

      Where?

    • @Bundy72
      @Bundy72 3 дня назад

      ​@@keesvanwesterop2954Rijksmuseum.

    • @Jeroenhermanjan
      @Jeroenhermanjan 3 дня назад +1

      Or the occupation of London, a thing not a lot know.

    • @Bundy72
      @Bundy72 День назад

      ​@@JeroenhermanjanAnd preferably forgotten.

  • @Umadatme
    @Umadatme 4 месяца назад +78

    We also went to london during the war and stole the personal ship of king charles the second

    • @Matthijsklaassen
      @Matthijsklaassen 26 дней назад +8

      "We?" Did you go there in person?

    • @nielsdekker2930
      @nielsdekker2930 25 дней назад

      @@Matthijsklaassen Matthijs jij bent sws die guy die nooit werd uitgenodigd op kinderfeestjes omdat je kanker irritant bent.

    • @tomz5704
      @tomz5704 21 день назад +16

      ​@@Matthijsklaassenof course, besides being tall, the Dutch are known for their longevity

    • @taal1979
      @taal1979 20 дней назад +3

      That was not to London but that was the raid on the Medway

    • @Kelvinpierre99
      @Kelvinpierre99 17 дней назад +8

      ​@@Matthijsklaassenbijdehandje

  • @DaveShap
    @DaveShap 10 месяцев назад +11

    This is great but the music is a bit loud and distracting. It's almost anxiety inducing. To the point I can't finish watching the video.

    • @NosyVoldemort
      @NosyVoldemort 10 месяцев назад +7

      I didn't even notice the music being that loud. For me its just fine.

    • @markusbg8
      @markusbg8 10 месяцев назад +7

      Music was just fine

    • @HittriX1
      @HittriX1 10 месяцев назад +2

      I agree that the music is a bit to loud

    • @kenster8270
      @kenster8270 9 месяцев назад +2

      I had to stop watching too. That looped fiddle music was annoyingly repetitive (and also: using music from the US Civil War seemed an oddly anachronistic choice for this topic).

    • @generaaldelarey2007
      @generaaldelarey2007 5 месяцев назад

      no the problem is it is british

  • @annebokma4637
    @annebokma4637 14 дней назад +4

    Using windmills to saw planks for ships made our shipbuilding world leading.

    • @oddballsok
      @oddballsok 6 дней назад

      Technically thát started the 1st industrial revolution.. mass producing planks and thus ships.. before steam engines and coal..

  • @mikewiersma5160
    @mikewiersma5160 3 дня назад +3

    We aint a European state, we are a country, like germany is, england is, like france is. not a state.

  • @YPR34
    @YPR34 14 дней назад +1

    Nice video. Very cool visuals

  • @NewNetherlandNow
    @NewNetherlandNow 13 дней назад +1

    Amazing, thanks for the extensive summary. I've seen all of this pass by in our research, but never so structured and well presented. So helpful - thanks!
    Also: beaver pelts from New Netherland. The only thing that any significance economically and culturally. But it was a terrible mass slaughter too. Europeans were strangely arrogant in their voyages of discovery.

  • @robertomorsink2014
    @robertomorsink2014 6 месяцев назад +4

    Very well made!
    More views please!

  • @valentijnrozeveld3773
    @valentijnrozeveld3773 3 месяца назад +21

    You made a mistake.. when i looked it up it said there wasn't a lot of black slaves on plantations in Indonesia but rather badly paid locals *and according to wikipedia local slaves. Black slaves in Indonesia were primarely household slaves. The VOC barely did black slave labor. It was the WIC who primarely traded in black slaves and had a lot of black slaves working in plantations in the Americas. Also slaves in mainland Netherlands were illegal.
    Also what do you mean with gave way? We've held the entirety of Indonesia and our carribbean territories till late in the 1900's. Also the reason for the 3rd Dutch Anglo war was our support to the American colonist independence war against Britain, we were their arms dealers. Without the Dutch the independence war would've been lost.
    It was the France under Napoleon who ultimately defeated us after being weakened after the last war wit England. We did not gave way we fought.

    • @ronaldderooij1774
      @ronaldderooij1774 22 дня назад +1

      Well, we gave way in New York, Brasil, South Africa, India, Sri Lanka and Taiwan.

    • @valentijnrozeveld3773
      @valentijnrozeveld3773 22 дня назад +2

      @@ronaldderooij1774 We lost Nieuw Amsterdam in a war but we gained Suriname for it (rich in gold and plantations) it was a better deal for us.
      We only occupied Portuguese Brazil for a few years. (it wasn't our colony)
      Great Britain took control of Sri Lanka and South Africa after Napoleon invaded us.
      With the transfer op the Dutch colonies to Great Britain came the promise that Indonesia was ours. The last 4 loses were bad but not as important as Indonesia.

    • @MarvinWestmaas
      @MarvinWestmaas 18 дней назад +1

      There is a reason Willem Alexander felt he needed to offer his apologies. ( en Geerje zoals gewoonlijk gaat staan janken erover ).
      'Also slaves in main Netherlands were illegal' -> .. sadly only part of the populous actually thought slavery was probably against 'god's intentions' ... that was, until the 'good book' told them it was actually ok because 'slaves were descendants of Cham' and even better: they could try to convert the 'pagans' to 'christianity' and everybody knows that giving souls to skydaddy justifies just about anything.
      But it is indeed telling that there was a lot of resistance initially. Even if it was just virtue signaling ( against 'gods' will lol ). And even if in the end, even 'god' decided slavery was perfectly fine and the 'good old Dutch' would be forgiven for their sins.

    • @on-the-pitch-p3w
      @on-the-pitch-p3w 16 дней назад

      Touché. 😂

    • @teunvanderwal646
      @teunvanderwal646 13 дней назад

      @@MarvinWestmaas tbf there was not a single country in those days that didnt use slaves

  • @eindhovendegekste168
    @eindhovendegekste168 4 дня назад +1

    Quite impressive for such a small country.

  • @FlipTomasi
    @FlipTomasi 6 дней назад +2

    One of the first stock exchanges? The first stock exchange.

  • @YPR34
    @YPR34 14 дней назад +5

    The Dutch flag was the first with the three-coloured stripes/lanes. And the template for all other flags with three lanes, like the French, Russian, Italian, German, Belgian, Indian, etc 😊

  • @SDAM-
    @SDAM- 4 месяца назад +5

    Good and informative Video about the Based Dutch Empire!

  • @JohnDove-d8d
    @JohnDove-d8d Месяц назад +1

    *Dutch-Brazilian Creole* :
    A heritage combining elements of Portuguese, Jewish, and Southern Italian culture & heritage in the context of colonial Brazil with Dutch heritage in the context of colonial New Amsterdam.

  • @roodborstkalf9664
    @roodborstkalf9664 5 дней назад

    Good video, mostly correct.

  • @NiekVanDerWegen
    @NiekVanDerWegen 6 часов назад

    Meneer met bloedneus gaat het?

  • @mhead188
    @mhead188 4 месяца назад +6

    Why are they playing "Johnny Goes Marching On" in the background? It's an American Civil War song...

    • @arthurreede4478
      @arthurreede4478 24 дня назад

      Americans are the children and product of the anglo-dutch wars and colonization as you can see in this video so pretty fitting if you ask me

    • @Wrecker3D
      @Wrecker3D 14 дней назад +1

      Because 'In the navy' was to gay and 'bij de marine (zorg dat je erbij komt)' would be incomprehensible for non-Dutch speakers?🤣

    • @tygodegier3110
      @tygodegier3110 12 дней назад

      Not everyone cares about the thought behind the songs. I went on vacation in Indonesia and on a resort they played 'Pumped up Kicks by Foster the People' daily. They skipped the part where the lyrics are about school shootings and put it in their Playlist because it has a nice melody.... not gonna lie I smiled everytime I heard it.

    • @crab-finger
      @crab-finger День назад +1

      @@tygodegier3110 the indonesian resort clearly cared "about the thought behind the songs" if they skipped a part of it every day

    • @tygodegier3110
      @tygodegier3110 День назад

      @@crab-finger but they didnt 😂

  • @kkemp221
    @kkemp221 12 дней назад

    While other countries used manpower to saw wood. The netherlands used wind mills which made it possible to build ships in a very short time. One of the reasons the netherlands was the no 1 sea nation of that time and the start of 'the golden age'

  • @laurenthoutappel1258
    @laurenthoutappel1258 22 дня назад +5

    Nice overview but it misses a lot of details or facts.

    • @tygodegier3110
      @tygodegier3110 12 дней назад +1

      Not surprising for a 12 minute video. There are more detailed ones.

  • @josephrosati9921
    @josephrosati9921 21 день назад +1

    Stupendous video my good sir

    • @peterdevalk7929
      @peterdevalk7929 14 дней назад

      You can't say that without arguing why, can you?

    • @harrysiereveld6485
      @harrysiereveld6485 14 дней назад

      @@peterdevalk7929 I think Joseph was being very kind and complimentary, no reason to back it up by arguing, right?

    • @collectioneur
      @collectioneur 13 дней назад

      Pointless comment…

    • @peterdevalk7929
      @peterdevalk7929 12 дней назад +1

      ​@@harrysiereveld6485 Sorry Harry, I need to brush up on my English; I thought he meant it was "stupid". 😁

    • @futuretyrant
      @futuretyrant 12 дней назад

      @@peterdevalk7929 niggativities

  • @somedutchguy9184
    @somedutchguy9184 14 дней назад +1

    It was not unknown and not very colonial, until that became a trend in the 1900's.

  • @YPR34
    @YPR34 14 дней назад

    Dutch/Belgian painters also started the trend to paint just ordinary people instead of saints and religieus scenes. Like the girl with the pearl and milk girl. This was part of a consciousness of the individual and individualism. And part of capitalist ideas.

    • @SensitivityGames
      @SensitivityGames 13 часов назад

      Oh we contributed from sub marines to why carrots are almost all orange. Yes we did that XD. Wifi. Bluetooth. Cassete. Dvd. Cd. Capitalism it self. Marines doctrine was invented during the raid on the med way. Guerrilla war. The stock market. Not to mention the vast history. Ate our President, voc and woc, main weapon supplier for spain during our 80 year war with them. Secretly helped usa independence. Caused the french revolution resulting in a russian revolution. And then the rest XD. People have 0 idea. Even today with our stuff like ASML we have still a tremendous amount of leverages.

  • @paulboluijt6368
    @paulboluijt6368 3 дня назад

    Decima, a small island in Japan is missing. And Tasmania, 'discovered' by Abel Tasman.

    • @mackjigger6030
      @mackjigger6030 2 дня назад

      6:12 that`s the location of Deshima, Nagasaki, pretty accurate

  • @natheriver8910
    @natheriver8910 3 месяца назад +1

    Very interesting

  • @thogrimironhammer8563
    @thogrimironhammer8563 21 день назад +2

    The Netherlands got more countries under their colony rules 💪🏾🔥

  • @TimSerras
    @TimSerras 26 дней назад +1

    Problem was that the Portuguese did not agree so kicked them out of Brazil and Angola. Today the two biggest Portuguese speaking countries, making it the most spoken language in the Southern Hemisphere. Who speaks Dutch there?

    • @insidiatori9148
      @insidiatori9148 25 дней назад +1

      Bro it was a short period in 17th century. Chill out man

    • @janvisser4132
      @janvisser4132 19 дней назад

      The dutch were more pragmatic in their colonization. The local population was allowed to keep their language, customs and religions as long as they kept making money for the dutch. Easier than to butcher them all (although they were ruthless too when confronted with uprisings). Also, the dutch didn't encourage settlement of the colonies by native dutch like the Spanish and Portugese did. Lastly, in the american colonies a significant part of the native population died of new diseases, necessitating repopulation with portugese and spanish settlers. Most dutch colonies were in asia, where they didn't have that problem. That is why the only former dutch colonies where they still speak dutch are the caribbean islands, Suriname and South Africa. I think south africa and Suriname are in the southern hemisphere.

    • @insidiatori9148
      @insidiatori9148 18 дней назад

      @@janvisser4132 True. I'd like to add to it that even the Indonesian language was made by the Dutch to use as a lingua franca over there. It took words from all the islands, based on malay and contains tons of Dutch vocabulary. Also the reason it is one of the easiest languages in the world. Pretty interesting to look into.

    • @TimSerras
      @TimSerras 18 дней назад +1

      @@janvisser4132 Don’t know about Suriname but in South Africa there is a language that is based on old Dutch (more like Flemish) that is called Afrikaans. But it ain’t Dutch. Pidgin Portuguese is spoken in Malaysia (Malacca), Goa, Macao, Cape Verde and Sao Tomé. I mean Portuguese as an official language. You cannot compare Portuguese legacy with Dutch. Even in Asia where Portuguese lost most of their colonies, their influence in all territories they had occupied is much more evident. Portuguese surnames are frequent everywhere, their cuisine is heavily present in many Asian dishes (they made Indian cuisine hot with pepper from Brazil) for example, religion etc. I also understand that many Asian languages have many Portuguese words in it. Japanese for example has many words from Portuguese.

    • @janvisser4132
      @janvisser4132 18 дней назад +1

      @@TimSerras Afrikaans comes from Dutch, as a Dutchman I can understand most of it. Definitely caused by the Dutch colonization of South Africa. The Portugese empire is most impressive because it was build so early, they were the true pioneers. Just not that great at holding on to it, most dutch colonies in asia were conquerd from the Portugese. The colonies they kept in Asia were fairly small. Other than that the Portugese empire is more impressive because of Brazil. When you take that out of the equation the Dutch empire is as impressive than the Portugese one. Indonesia is huge, it has the same length as the continental US. That is pretty impressive for a country as small as the Netherlands. Funny that you mention Japan. While the Portugese were the first there, and the ones that gave them firearms, they were eventually kicked out by the Japanese. They exclusively traded with the dutch for centuries. Which is a pretty impressive diplomatic victory.

  • @saintinel
    @saintinel 12 дней назад

    What a small country can be great at...

  • @arthurreede4478
    @arthurreede4478 24 дня назад +2

    This makes me think of how I play civ. Everything on gold, production and military. Nothing on science, culture and religion 😂

    • @tygodegier3110
      @tygodegier3110 12 дней назад

      The Dutch were verh busy inventing at that time so the science part I disagree on but for the culture and religion side you're 100 % correct 😂🤝

  • @BiNumLi
    @BiNumLi 27 дней назад +2

    Brilliant. At a point it would have been advantageous for the Dutch to make an ally among the powerful Euro nations. You would think that would be natural for a trading nation. But live by the sword, die by the sword. Aggression worked from them. So they fought everybody. Eventually without an ally, they were overcome by bigger enemies.

    • @jezusbloodie
      @jezusbloodie 27 дней назад +1

      To add too this: another major reason was the growing corruption and incompetence in the Dutch East Indies Company.

    • @renejagers4364
      @renejagers4364 25 дней назад +1

      and who would that have been? England was the main ally (more like frenemy) there was no Germany and everyone else where catholics (ewl can't ally those as a protestant nation)
      and even if they would have, their interests would have drawn them into wars that held no vital interest for the netherlands

    • @BiNumLi
      @BiNumLi 25 дней назад

      Exactly.

    • @ronaldderooij1774
      @ronaldderooij1774 22 дня назад +4

      If you look into the history, Dutch European diplomacy was doing nothing else than seek for alliances. With France and England during the war of independence, All protestant parties, but especially Brandenburg in the thirty year's war, Sweden (against Denmark), with Denmark (against Prussia), and so on. The Dutch even invaded England to put their king on the throne there (against Franco-British alliance against the Netherlands). Etcetera. etcetera. All in the closing years of the 16th century and in the 17th century.

    • @DarkDutch007
      @DarkDutch007 6 дней назад +1

      @@ronaldderooij1774 The Netherlands had no King to be put on the Throne of England, Scotland and Ireland, he was Stadtholder of the Netherlands, while being the ruling title, it's not a King.
      The first King of the Netherlands (Holland) after King Phillip II of Spain was King Louis Bonaparte (Napoleon's brother).

  • @e.w.3819
    @e.w.3819 14 дней назад

    2:20 that map has not enough Noord-Brabant. And what about Textile capital Tilburg. And Bergen op Zoom (is even a song about, from 80 yeras war era) and offcourse Breda.

  • @YPR34
    @YPR34 14 дней назад +1

    And Dejima in Japan

  • @arfaannoermahomed3443
    @arfaannoermahomed3443 13 дней назад

    So the Chinese Javanese and South Asians got brought to Dutch Guyana (Suriname) on the same boat

  • @RoderikvanReekum
    @RoderikvanReekum 12 дней назад +1

    Only one thing to write: GEKOLONISEERD SPECERIJEN VOC!!!

  • @Tjalie-j6i
    @Tjalie-j6i 3 дня назад

    Yes, we Dutch conquered Britain

  • @armygetic2509
    @armygetic2509 6 месяцев назад +2

    2000 ships*

  • @Klierland12
    @Klierland12 17 дней назад +1

    At first glance: very good. At second glance: naaahhhh, it's AI. Too smooth, too specific, too heartless. It is very good production value, but it misses the human touch,although very well mimiced.

  • @rogarizurieta7641
    @rogarizurieta7641 4 месяца назад

    It's pretty well known that the Dutch had a colonial empire my guy

  • @ricardocoesel4706
    @ricardocoesel4706 7 дней назад +1

    Democratie? Niet als je buiten de box denkt en afwijkt van het narratief wat je ingepeperd krijgt door de eenzijdige media.

  • @qazatqazah
    @qazatqazah 14 дней назад +1

    That music... It's too much.

  • @YPR34
    @YPR34 14 дней назад

    Kaap Horn in Argentina

  • @ArendJanV
    @ArendJanV 14 дней назад

    Didn’t make Dutch stadholder himself king of England?

  • @Greenland-is-not-europe
    @Greenland-is-not-europe 17 дней назад

    Dutch have now been Dutchfeated

  • @siriusfeline
    @siriusfeline 4 дня назад

    Great video EXCEPT the mind-numbing, repetitious recycling of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" throughout. Mother-of-God! - you don't need it and it only distracts from the exceptional historical data you are presenting.

  • @timdebruijne9127
    @timdebruijne9127 13 дней назад

    Basically, we ruled and still do 😜

  • @JuniorJuni070
    @JuniorJuni070 4 месяца назад +2

    how dare you call us unknown..
    we made you american.. you wear my colours after all.. how do you think russia 🇷🇺 got their colours from ? know your place american

    • @Monkeyamingus777
      @Monkeyamingus777 Месяц назад

      What is bro talking about
      This isn't about Russia

    • @r.i.peperoniiiiroh9625
      @r.i.peperoniiiiroh9625 Месяц назад

      @@Monkeyamingus777no this is about Russia USA and France taking our Dutch flag because of what the colours represent

    • @nofearofwater
      @nofearofwater 29 дней назад

      They said Dutch is unknown? Very well known country lol. Amsterdam a world famous city. How can you talk history but call Netherlands unknown

    • @wesselkarels5115
      @wesselkarels5115 23 дня назад

      @@r.i.peperoniiiiroh9625 Russia is true, but France isn’t, rather, the Dutch flag was influenced by the French, after the napoleonic wars we made the previous orange in our flag red and the light blue darker because of ties with revolutionary France, I am Dutch myself, so I know the history

    • @djaydenbraakman954
      @djaydenbraakman954 22 дня назад +1

      @@wesselkarels5115 vriend de vlag is rood geworden van oranje omdat je het beter kan zien op de zee en kan identificeren, en de Franse vlag is pas gemaakt in 1790 en de verandering van de prinsjes vlag naar de rode in 1596, I am Dutch myself, so i know the history

  • @Witch_of_calamity
    @Witch_of_calamity 12 дней назад

    ORANJE BOVEN RAAAHHH

  • @Andersdenkende
    @Andersdenkende 5 дней назад

    And where is the UK now? GOING DOWWWWNNNNNNN!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

  • @A3SmoothH
    @A3SmoothH 10 месяцев назад +1

    wassup with the yugoslavia flag

    • @bart7309
      @bart7309 6 месяцев назад

      What about it?

    • @A3SmoothH
      @A3SmoothH 6 месяцев назад

      @@bart7309 previously he put yugoslavia flag but he was change it.