@@tygodegier3110 Actually it's the Southern Sea... The North Sea is the sea between Great Britain, Norway, Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, and Belgium. The Southern Sea is the formerly existing sea which is now the Ijsselmeer, Markermeer, and Flevoland.
After watching this, we should watch Hilbert video too, especially the one entitled "A Tribute to the Dutch Republic" From Admiral :) *btw we're wkwkwkw creator, but both of you do amazing work :)
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.
Martin Van Buren and both Roosevelts, those are the ones i know that are of dutch origin. Van Burens native language was actually dutch as i read somewhere.
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.
Also, it's an overrated name, the "golden" part was mostly in the Western part of the country, and mostly for the Rich. Basically people were still starving during the golden age. The rich got richter, the poor died in the gutter. It's the reason historians don't like to call that era the 'golden' age. However in other ways it was def. an improvement, especially religious freedom and as a safe haven for persecuted peoples; jews for example.
What is all this free nonsense? Welfare is paid for by economic migrants and taxpaying citizens. Repirations were never paid - but now Asia et al are reclaiming global wealth by other means. The Chinese are buying their ancient artwork and sculptures from the west for example.
Ever heard of the Swedish one? The Dutch one is more like the friend that takes a piece of everything, is unpleasantly surprised by one dish and proceeds to take nearly everything of an other one.
Is the first time I watch the lands that the Netherlands get... Was almost places that belong to Portugal that time... And during the (Iberian union) so... Like thieves when Portugal was under control of Spain, with the Portuguese navy serving the Spanish... Funny to see after the Portuguese get ther independence back, they focused in the most important lands and got them back The video talks about Netherlands having lack of men’s... When Portugal start... have less than 1 million! Cheers from Portugal ✌🏼🙂
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.
And with that Japan would be taught everything concerning modern science. Which would set the stage for Imperial Japan, which would fuck the Dutch by invading their colonies... whoopsie
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!
I don't believe the WIC's Grand Design was aimed at the slavetrade though. The WIC was still dominated by calvinists who believed slavetrade was unchristian, it was another bad thing the catholics did. They were at the African West coast for the ivory and the gold and New Netherland was supposed to be an ordinary agricultural settlement with protestant settlers, not a plantation economy. Only with the conquest of Dutch Brazil from the Portuguese the WIC permitted the governor to conquer Portuguese slave trading posts in Africa, but under the condition that they would be freed after seven years and were educated in christianity in the mean time.
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.
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 :-)
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.
Nah, we're just better, we built the cycle we built because we are who we are, you can add a lot of steps to try to make it more nuanced but it all comes down to our genetics in the end if you think it through. People create cultures, and people are a biological organism.
Spreading diseases was a big part of it. Just look into the history of the natives in the Americas being absolutes decimated by the filth that the Europeans brought with them. Their immune systems were so used to the disease that they basically carried super-pathogens that the natives couldn’t handle
@@dathunderman4 Japanese people have a pretty high iq, I ain't say white people are the only people with good genetics, some asian countries have higher iqs than white countries, this ain't about a master race
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.
As a Dutch person I can tell you that in school we get taught in full depth of our colonial history in Indonesia both the good things and the bad things so that we may never forget the atrocities my ancestors committed onto your people, so that history may never repeat itself. Edit: this was taught to me in primary school so that means you have the same teacher for every subject regardless of what that teacher graduated to teach. The reactions to my initial comment left me a little confused so when I recently ran into my old teacher from that year in school I asked him about it. He told me that he graduated to teach history and taught us more than the book ever would. He thought it was important not only for the reasons I mentioned earlier (3 years ago) but also because he believed it was important to teach us historical facts instead of what the book called facts. Mind you it was more than 10 years ago since I was last in a class of his so forgive me if my memory of it all is a little foggy.
@@CT-3743_DeadEye obvious you know nothing about contemporary Dutch education when it comes to history… No more than a pathetic window dressing attempt 🥱
It is usually referred to as a 'herb' in this context, although, it is a plant. Grass and weed you have probably heard of as well. Maybe you can call hash a spice?
I like the video . Hoever, there are some small errors in it. For example . The english didn't took new Amsterdam in 1644 . They took it in 1664 . After the best anglo - dutch war we traded it for nowdays Suriname . Also the map isnt really good . Your missing a lot of places (like dejima in Nagasaki (Japan) for example ) and other places you made them way bigger Them they are . Part of those errors i really like your work . Keep up the good work ^^
Not exactly. New Amsterdam was captured by the British, but briefly recaptured by the dutch. Then they traded it for suriname. And there were no colonies in Japan. There were open ports, but they were never under any form of dutch rule
@@rollood7394 You're both wrong, it wasn't a "trade" for Suriname. By all intents and purposes, England severely lost the war. The treaty included many things much more important than new amsterdam or (modern day) Suriname. New Amsterdam was a worthless piece of land and the treaty was all about maintaining the nutmeg monopoly the Dutch held at that time. If new amsterdam (once again very unimportant) was "traded" for anything it was for the island of Run in modern Indonesia. I suggest reading about the nutmeg producing island its significance regarding the treaty of Breda.
@@br137 I had some college lectures about it, but that still doesnt mean I know thát much so thanks for correcting me :) But by all means, New Amsterdam wasnt super unimportant. There was still a lot of trade with it. However, you should also take into account that defending that colony from the surrounding English settlers and native Americans was very expensive. It was also not a strategic spot for them. So their profits werent very high. Suriname was easier to defend and more profitable, so that made it an easy choice
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.
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
pre-industrial era industrialisation :D Let that sink in... Also we made pumps out of them, converting shallow bodies of water into arable land, which turned out to be very productive land.
@@AwoudeX It was the industrial revolution. For not only timber was produced at high speed, but paint, ropes, cement, and even iron products could be produced much faster by mechanical hammers, let the machine do it for you. Alcohol production in Schiedam, because of windmills. Pottery in Delft because of windmills that produced the liquid clay. And much more.
The Dutch and the Portuguese were always the underdogs of European expansion. That such small countries were able to create global empires is just stunning. Of course, Portugal and the Netherlands fought for supremacy over each other with mixed results. The Dutch were 'more' victorious in East Asia, whereas the Portuguese were 'more' victorious in South America. Nowadays, Dutch-Portuguese wars are only fought with a ball on a soccer pitch like the very funny 'Battle of Nuremberg', one of the most violent and chaotic football matches ever fought (ah, good times!): ruclips.net/video/cFDoPRSnefE/видео.html
As for Indonesia, you should precise that the islands of the archipelago are extremely diverse. Some of them were highly populated at the beginning of the 20th century. Some were almost empty. Borneo, New Guinea were covered with impenetrable jungles. And I don't speak of many of the minor islands. In fact, large parts of the colonial empire were little more than claims. During WWII the Allies flew above Papua and were surprised to discover agricultural lands where they thought there was only jungle and mountain. Similar claims on maps were made by colonial powers in other regions, especially Africa. In many cases, the exploration was completed shortly before the independence.
Very true. My mother grew up on the island of Sumba as the daugther of a missonary docter. The Dutch arrived in earnest around 1900 on Sumba but in 1930 were still hardly present on the island. One could say Java after independence "colonised" more of Indonesia than the Dutch did before.
Nice story, the VOC has also been subject to corruption, but where does that not happen. The Netherlands was one of the countries that had success with trade and violence in a certain period. Before that, the Spanish influence caused 80 years of misery in the Netherlands. Spaniards were also very active in South America, but that too is over. The English and French have also been very active and a little further back in time it was the Vikings. The Roman Empire was huge and has also fallen. Only working together in peace is the solution for everyone, but unfortunately that will never happen. Greetings from a Dutchman.
The Dutch initially had ambitions in the Malay Peninsula and signed a treaty with the local Perak ruler to establish a factory and a fort. It was burned down by the locals then came the British, and with the Dutch, they signed the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824 that ultimately dissected the Malay heartlands into two spheres, and today these two sides became Malaysia and Indonesia and each other are bickering over frivolous things like cuisine and culture but failed to realise how they are actually brothers split by imperial ambitions. Sad circumstance.
@@johane4764 so it's just tiny part of indonesia....malay in indonesia are small in number...,batak..aceh..minang..also have different languages and cultures ( although have similiarities ) while in malaysia even java..bugis considered as malay.. If you grouping minang..aceh as malay it just like you grouping javanese with balinese..sundanese.. They are have similiarities..but well..they are different...
@@mitchellb3820 The dutch people. I am a dutch citizen and therefore this piece of history is a part of my culture. Just like people that support a soccer or football team, they also talk about my or our club.
@@mitchellb3820 no culture... Only ignorance is shown by your comment. Even today the Dutch export their culture as in the top 10 of all DJ's, half is Dutch. That is but 1 example, that's still valid today. We've influenced the entire world with several of our cultural aspects. To say we have no culture, is absurd and divorced from reality. I hope you don't want to live divorced from reality any longer. Good luck to you.
I'm from the old capital Recife (mauritsstad) of the Dutch colony of New Holland in the old captaincy of Pernambuco in Brazil. and a funny story when the Dutch wanted to build a bridge here. they promised to make a cow fly, to see would have to pay 10 florim hahaha they earned more than they spent to build the bridges
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
I'm Indonesian creator, but for me the Dutch history is a part of Indonesian History, that we (ID) should learn not by hatred, but by "curiosity" 🤓 Btw love The Admiral movie too
Inspect History Oh cool man! how is the dutch history generally regarded in indonesia? I have no idea, I would suspect some hatred or resentment being present though. I understand this isn't easy to write down in a comment, bit a general idea would be awesome
@@skeletonrowdie1768 yes, you're right dude! In order to increase national unity, national pride, or in short nationalism, government try to "antagonize" Dutch, and Indonesia heroes as "protagonist", Indonesian see Dutch, just like Dutch see Spanish Empire, but with a bit of hatred, even today 😅 But the younger generation start to change, like me & my team try to portrait dutch as "another country", not as "another evil" Some of us, even learn from Wageningen University, especially if you want to learn "agriculture" 😁
Another enjoyable video, again about a country whose history I knew nothing about until watching this. You do fit a lot of info in those 10 mins, Great stuff 👍👍
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
@@izeiHH9675 It means colonised in Dutch, some Dutch jokingly spam this under post/videos about the Netherlands. Which is kinda annoying and kinda funny
The VOC was the first multinational and the Amsterdam Stock Exchange also the first in the world. What amazes me more though is that The Netherlands were very capable to hire Germans, French and people from other nationalities to work for the Dutch, because the country did not have enough inhabitants to conquer and establish all those trading posts by itself. Another important fact was that The Dutch were able to build ships much faster than their competitors, by using water as a source of energy to actively power the mills sawing wood. It took the British f.e. half a century longer to adapt the same system. Industrious people, the Dutch....and even nowadays with multinationals like Shell and Unilever to name a few (by the way, both partially British).
@@peterdevalk7929 what a strange point to make, any Dutch wealth that made its way into England pales in comparison to the success the English had through their own achievements.
@@peterdevalk7929 also what do you think the British history books say about the Dutch and what happened to their money? Seriously, it feels like you are trying to fight against propaganda that doesn’t exist.
@@maxdavis7722 I’ll bet 99.9% of the British never heard about the raid on the Midway; the most embarrassing defeat in the history of England. Or that a Dutch prince (Prins van Oranje) became King of England, Scotland and Ireland which was in fact another Dutch invasion of your precious island. In reality England (and later Ireland) was invaded by a large and well-trained Dutch army, initially 21,000 men but later increased, that was brought here in November 1688 on 500 ships - an armada four times larger than the Spanish armada of 1588. This was the one and only cause that huge amounts of capital fled from the most important city in the world a.t.t, Amsterdam to London. And NOT only that! Stock markets, Craftsmen, sophisticated technics, knowledge of making ships 3 times faster than any other country at that time (in fact the start of modern industrialisation) , etc. etc. also followed the Dutch king and the money. Without these FACTS England would never ever got the change to build on there empire and to “begin” modern industrialisation. Read: “The Glorious Revolution of 1688-91 was really a Dutch invasion; this distortion of the facts reflects our narrow view of Britain's past, argues Jonathan Israel.” www.independent.co.uk/life-style/history-in-the-making-the-glorious-revolution-of-168891-was-really-a-dutch-invasion-this-distortion-of-the-facts-reflects-our-narrow-view-of-britain-s-past-argues-jonathan-israel-1565642.html So much for propaganda that doesn't exists. Hope you're open to the truth and to learn something.
What was it that made The Netherlands "rich" or "important power". One part were the spice islands, yes. The other more important part however was their trade fleet and related trade dominance. The trade fleet was bigger than the whole of the rest of Europe put together during the 17th century. 20 times bigger than the English trade fleet for example (the Dutch-English and Dutch-Spanish wars were mostly about trade). Arguably more money was made on the Baltic trade as supposed on the spice trade. Just fyi 😎
@Arsenal In History Channel. The first capitalist in the world was VOC in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). By the way the Dutch also invented the microscope. 😊
@@IudiciumInfernalum I heard that the Knights Templar invent bank. Once again the source is History Channel. How could the Knights Templar invent bank?
The question should be how the Dutch created a colonial empire and. at the same time, failed to spread their language and culture elsewhere, except marginally to South Africa and Suriname. Even though Indonesia was not a settlement colony, it is impressive how, after 350 years of Dutch presence, there is barely anything Dutch left there. A comparison to British India, which was not a settlement colony either, is warranted.
You have to understand the context. India did not have a langua franca so they took over English. In Indonesia already existed bahasa Indonesia so Dutch wasn't needed. Next to that were the Dutch not as much interested as other powers to spread their culture so how can you see it as a failure?
Great video, but you left out my country Ghana (colonial name: Gold Coast) in West Africa. The Dutch seized it from the Portuguese and British eventually took it from the Dutch, through Anglo-Dutch Treaties of 1870-71, but not before the Dutch had left their imprint. The capital, Accra, was split into Dutchh Accra, British Accra, and Danish Accra. There was also Dutch Komenda to the west. Dutch products like Schnapps remain popular in Ghana today. (People prefer the original to the local version). They also introduced Java cloths (from Indonesia, I presume), which continue to command premium prices because of their quality, although I don't believe they come from Java anymore. And, oh, yes, they made plenty of babies along the coast. Hence, names like Vanderpuige, Ulzen, de Veer, de Bordes, and Van Hien in Ghana today.
I think you (and almost every other youtuber that makes a video about this time period) missed a great opportunity by not discussing the economy of the low lands before, during and after the 80 years war. The Dutch would have never been able to fight the Spanish without the wealth acquired thru trade, production and innovation. De moedernegotie (baltic trade / mother of all trade), land reclamation projects and the staple markets in Antwerp and later Amsterdam were the foundation of the Dutch republic. The VOC (and to a lesser extant the WIC) might seem more interesting and capture the imagination but without the moedernegotie it wouldn’t exist. I think it’s a shame that, whenever somebody talks about Dutch history (on youtube), this fascination subject is completely ignored or overlooked. The basic requirments for the trading empire build like building/maintaining a fleet that could travel and dominate the world seas and oceans would have been impossible without the wood imports from Scandinavia and the population couldn’t sustain itself without the grain imports from the PLC and Russia. I hope you will make a video about this subject because it's fascinating and more people should know about this, the Dutch golden age was more than the fantasized voyage to the far east. It was a time were the average Dutch household enjoyed a living standard unmatched in Europe and it was (at least partly) because of the mother of all trade, de moedernegotie.
About the necessary wealth for fighting Spanish Army, I have to remember that incomes from trade was only a tiny part of it. The most of income came from all the properties that protestant nobles stole from the Catholic Church. In fact, most of the time they didn't fight against Spanish, but against other nobles who didn't want to become protestant. It was kind of a civil war in which some of the nobles (protestant ones) had the help of England as an ally and the others (the catholic ones) the occasional support of their Spanish king.
It’s very easy, Portuguese expelled the Jews, some went to Holland, they took the knowledge, maps, investment, secrets, routes, etc. The rest is history. All Dutch colonies were former Portuguese colonies.
5:50 We never lost New Amsterdam, we gave it to the English in a trade where we received Suriname. This deal mostly happened because we won the 2nd Dutch-Anglo war.
It helps when you have a delta running trough your country, making it ideal for placing harbors and ship stuff inland. The wealth that trade brought, made my ancestors buy the power through mercenaries. The accomplishment lies in how well the Dutch commanded the mercenaries. It was so effective that the methods became common thereafter. This is how we weren't overrun by Spain. On top of that, good diplomatic relations with several neighbours that were willing to help.
The only thing I know about the Netherlands 🇳🇱 is that it conquered Indonesia 🇮🇩 for a long time and that it has colonies in the Caribbean and South America how Curacao 🇨🇼 and Suriname 🇸🇷
We don't have any colonies anymore. Surinam got it's independence in 1954 and left the kingdom in 1975. Indonesia got it's independence in 1949. Curaçao, Aruba and Sint Maarten are independent countries within the kingdom, while Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba are municipalities within the kingdom.
@@taand4725if you think about it, we as the netherlands have more territorial colonial leftovers than like, the UK (idk if you can count the commonwealth) because of the caribbean municipalities and stuff
Every time they came to a country they liked the look they challenged the locals to a game of garden Jenga and if they won they kept the country, that's what a Dutchman told in a cafe in Amsterdam, so it must be true.
My family is proof of the old Dutch Colonization. All my grandparents were born and raised in Dutch East Indies. Remained Dutch citizens and left for Holland after Indonesian Independence. Now I live in 'New World' (Canada, not NYC) with cousins in Suriname and Singapore and rest of fam still in Holland (yes, the province).
My mother has a story of her family being in dutch east india with her relative once, and a snake came along and snuck up on the child who was in her bench, and the family who were sitting besides the house, threw a spoon at the snake, and the snake and the spoon were both gone when they went looking. Very strange....
There is a common sense in Pernambuco (a state in Brazil where I come from, which was dominated by the Dutch in the 17th century for a short time) that if the Dutch had defeated the Portuguese, and permanently established a colony in that province, this region in Brazil would be more prosperous and socially equal than it is today. Which is completely ridiculous, colonialism is colonialism, it sucks no matter if it's the English, the French, the Portuguese...
@@claudiopereira9900 I am sorry but I would rather live in South Africa, there are many wonderful people in South Africa too... not all are as bad as you think. And besides the Netherlands is definitely not as great as you might think it is.
How to colonize a territory: - Eng, Fr, Neth, Bel: Erase the locals or confine them to reserves, repopulate with your own people, build factories and plantations, get some slaves to work in them, enrich the whites through trade and exploitation of resources, turn it into a puppet/failed state, never totally leave. - Rome, Greece, Spain: Conquer the land by war and agreements, alphabetize and convert the locals, make them your own citizens, build universities, temples and cities, enrich the whites and the locals through trade and exploitation of resources, get looted by your enemies, collapse. - Portugal: Lets do both!
The main reason the Dutch where able to do this all is because of the invention of the crankshaft. This enabled saw mills that in turn enabled them to cut wood faster and thus build ships faster. If not for the crankshaft the Dutch would have never been able to compete on the sea's as they wouldn't have had the manpower to build as many ships as they did.
@@jerrysamuels8716 The 'big money' was made by buying wheat from Sweden and Poland (Ukraine exported by Poland as well) and distributing this all over the rest of Europe. Wheat from the Netherlands is of a low quality because of less sun and more rain. The only good quality was rye and oat, but most people like wheat products. Dutch farmers could concentrate on other products with high value, like cheese, butter, meat, fruits and vegetables, which were sold to buy the wheat. This process is called Moedernegotie (Mother of all trade).
@@jatijom The Dutch as a people haven't existed as the Netherlands before, but their history doesn't begin in 1568. We're a bit older than that. Grave monuments as old as 3350 BC. exist in the region i grew up in. That's 5000 years of history and then some.
If the Dutch were smarter in North America at the time, they would have never let New Amsterdam go. And perhaps parts of the USA would now all have spoken Dutch. Or at least New York! Funny to think about. But as so well explained in this video, the Dutch focused more on trade than hardcore colonization or warfare (they did had a powerful naval fleet for centuries and won many, many naval battles against Spain, UK and Portugal). Also a cool fact regarding the Dutch: The Dutch republic had exclusive trading rights with Japan (as a European power) for about 2 centuries (through 1 trading post, the Island of Deshima, 出島). The only trade or contact between Japan and Europe between 1641 and 1859, was by the Dutch republic (and after 1815, Kingdom of The Netherlands). I think that is so cool for such a tiny country.
Forgetting to mention that just 100 years ago The Dutch where the only onese allowed to trade with the Japanese Empire, they where closed from the world exept for The Dutch. Same with Chine which also closed itself from the then known world, only to open up for The Dutch. Dutch didn't want to convert indigenous peoples to some unknown faith, they just wanted to trade, that was all.
Hello, bro, there must be some transcripts for you to read when making this video. So why not use them as its closed captions? RUclips provides an excellent tool to the author like you to read in a text file, then it generates the closed captions for the video. Thus it benefits the non-native English speakers, also increases your subscribers. So why not? Thanks a lot for sharing the knowledge on this piece of history anyways.
Not to forget. The Dutch East India company was the biggest company the world has ever seen. They invented the stock market and practically are the founders of capitalism. If you weigh in inflation and other factors. They would be worth $7.8 trillion if they were around now. That's about 7 times Apple.
1:05 you mention the Dutch historians lack of use of ‘imperialism.’ Are there any key historiographic works on this topic? Would love to compare to the US example
the netherlands has always been a huge naval power. it is more surprising that belgium got as much as they did, considering the few ports they had. also far more interesting because the belgian king got those colonies with his cunning, instead of pure military force.
The Netherlands were probably the ones who destroyed Portugal's chances to be a rich and powerful country nowadays. If it was not for the Iberian Union, and the Portuguese and Spanish Empire weren't melted, the Dutch would have never attacked our colonies in India and Brazil and we would have never lost them. After the fall of the Iberian Union, the most we had was Brazil, which we lost some centuries later. After that it was decline at its best. Maybe we could have been as rich as Spain, or the Dutch. Obviously this would have never happened if D.Sebastião hadn't died but still... what we could have been
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Spain: *you cant trade anymore*
The Netherlands: *takes over the whole trade*
That's what we do....
North sea: *exists*
The Dutch: let's make some land out of that
@@tygodegier3110 peace was never an option
@@bestgameplay831 facts
@@tygodegier3110 Actually it's the Southern Sea... The North Sea is the sea between Great Britain, Norway, Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, and Belgium. The Southern Sea is the formerly existing sea which is now the Ijsselmeer, Markermeer, and Flevoland.
@@jaspermooren5883 I know, wou het makkelijk houden XD
By repeatedly playing Het Wilhelmus until they submitted.
Nice to see you here :D
@@Knowledgia Loving your videos man!
@@historywithhilbert Yours are awesome as well!
After watching this, we should watch Hilbert video too, especially the one entitled "A Tribute to the Dutch Republic" From Admiral :)
*btw we're wkwkwkw creator, but both of you do amazing work :)
hihi
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.
the usa has 2 dutch decendent presidents, just saying
@@silvereagle404 That is new to me and interesting. Which ?
Martin Van Buren and both Roosevelts, those are the ones i know that are of dutch origin.
Van Burens native language was actually dutch as i read somewhere.
I am dutch
Plus the Stock market and modern day political systems like democracy were invented in The Netherlands.
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.
And we won most of the the battles
Also, it's an overrated name, the "golden" part was mostly in the Western part of the country, and mostly for the Rich. Basically people were still starving during the golden age. The rich got richter, the poor died in the gutter. It's the reason historians don't like to call that era the 'golden' age. However in other ways it was def. an improvement, especially religious freedom and as a safe haven for persecuted peoples; jews for example.
If it ain’t Dutch, it ain’t much
Fuck you 1-0 World Cup 2010 ;)
Raymond dekkers proved this
*if i'm not dutch, im not dumb & coward*
@@attahallelujah794 try learning english first when you try to insult the Dutch.
@@Revoluxhumanista19 1 - 5 (2014) ;)
The World: exists*
Europeans: "It's free real estate"
What is all this free nonsense? Welfare is paid for by economic migrants and taxpaying citizens. Repirations were never paid - but now Asia et al are reclaiming global wealth by other means. The Chinese are buying their ancient artwork and sculptures from the west for example.
@@rickenfatania Hahahah, my god, you are dense.
@Headohones Love Sure, but Europe isn't the whole world.
@Headohones Love Uh, i am an european, you dumbass.
The Known World: exists
Rise of Islam Arabs: “it’s free real estate”.
That one friend who takes a piece of everything = Colonial Netherlands
Ever heard of the Swedish one? The Dutch one is more like the friend that takes a piece of everything, is unpleasantly surprised by one dish and proceeds to take nearly everything of an other one.
Proud to be Dutch 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
Is the first time I watch the lands that the Netherlands get...
Was almost places that belong to Portugal that time...
And during the (Iberian union) so...
Like thieves when Portugal was under control of Spain, with the Portuguese navy serving the Spanish...
Funny to see after the Portuguese get ther independence back, they focused in the most important lands and got them back
The video talks about Netherlands having lack of men’s...
When Portugal start... have less than 1 million!
Cheers from Portugal ✌🏼🙂
Netherlands Crimes in Indonesia
VOC was a Jewish thing
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.
True.
And with that Japan would be taught everything concerning modern science. Which would set the stage for Imperial Japan, which would fuck the Dutch by invading their colonies... whoopsie
It was actually Portuguese mister
Wkwkwkw (ID) here,
This topics is really interesting for Indonesian, thanks for making this .. I hope more of my countryman learn about this 🤓
Hallo bang wkwkwk
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@@InspectHistory habis soviet apalagi min?
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!
It's the Dutch who unite modern Indonesia today 😀
It need about 3 century, but the spices must flow
Hi, we already seen your video, nice work dude ;)
@@semuapenuh lol you make it sound like it's a good thing
I don't believe the WIC's Grand Design was aimed at the slavetrade though. The WIC was still dominated by calvinists who believed slavetrade was unchristian, it was another bad thing the catholics did. They were at the African West coast for the ivory and the gold and New Netherland was supposed to be an ordinary agricultural settlement with protestant settlers, not a plantation economy.
Only with the conquest of Dutch Brazil from the Portuguese the WIC permitted the governor to conquer Portuguese slave trading posts in Africa, but under the condition that they would be freed after seven years and were educated in christianity in the mean time.
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.
One of the first european countries that reintroduced a standing land army though. The Spanish still relied on mercenary tercios.
The Dutch had a massive land army actually. It was larger than most European armies and between 1688 and 1713 the 2nd largest of Europe
And it's always been and still is to this day all about controlling the trade routes..
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Oh no, please, not again. It takes us some time to get rid of you.
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@@panduwidagdo7051 Don't worry pal. Your merdeka will not mean anything because you are already colonized.
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the dutch are GEKOLONISEERD by foreign people
Jeffrey Bozko Lmao you’re G E K O L O N I S E E R D by shortsighted hatred
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Voivode Liam I gekoloniseerd
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Z E G M A K K E R, K O K O S N O O T IS G E E N S P E C E R I J
@@Zyraij oh kut
Zeg makker, je was al gekoloniseerd
We Brits like the Dutch more than any other Europeans.
teviottilehurst I hope we're leaving the EU too. Fuck Brussels.
I also like my English neighbours :). Its also time for a Nexit. Congrats English friends with your independence.
joe pesci lol FUCK Amsterdam. It does not belong to Holland. Amsterdam is actually the shithole of this country.
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@joe pesci amsterdam is the cancer of our country look ad your mayor
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 :-)
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@@rosaliegrummel7818 dan ben je flink verdwaald
The south of the Netherlands is mainly catholic
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.
A very nuanced view! Love to see discourse like this.
Nah, we're just better, we built the cycle we built because we are who we are, you can add a lot of steps to try to make it more nuanced but it all comes down to our genetics in the end if you think it through.
People create cultures, and people are a biological organism.
@@sirjordancarterremember when Russia as a superpower lost to Japan who was barely past the Middle Ages in development
Spreading diseases was a big part of it. Just look into the history of the natives in the Americas being absolutes decimated by the filth that the Europeans brought with them. Their immune systems were so used to the disease that they basically carried super-pathogens that the natives couldn’t handle
@@dathunderman4 Japanese people have a pretty high iq, I ain't say white people are the only people with good genetics, some asian countries have higher iqs than white countries, this ain't about a master race
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.
As a Dutch person I can tell you that in school we get taught in full depth of our colonial history in Indonesia both the good things and the bad things so that we may never forget the atrocities my ancestors committed onto your people, so that history may never repeat itself.
Edit: this was taught to me in primary school so that means you have the same teacher for every subject regardless of what that teacher graduated to teach.
The reactions to my initial comment left me a little confused so when I recently ran into my old teacher from that year in school I asked him about it.
He told me that he graduated to teach history and taught us more than the book ever would. He thought it was important not only for the reasons I mentioned earlier (3 years ago) but also because he believed it was important to teach us historical facts instead of what the book called facts.
Mind you it was more than 10 years ago since I was last in a class of his so forgive me if my memory of it all is a little foggy.
@@CT-3743_DeadEye Dutch history classes are as politically correct as they get. Totally ignoring the direct provocations.
@@CT-3743_DeadEye LIESSSSSSS
@@CT-3743_DeadEye obvious you know nothing about contemporary Dutch education when it comes to history…
No more than a pathetic window dressing attempt 🥱
I like Indië more
Does weed count as a spice ?
Bulgarian empire mapping it's obviously a vegetable ;p
@@skeletonrowdie1768 yeah ... kinda staple?
It is usually referred to as a 'herb' in this context, although, it is a plant. Grass and weed you have probably heard of as well. Maybe you can call hash a spice?
Do weed have that smell to deter insects? If not, it's not a spice
Is mayonnaise an instrument?
We didn't lose New Amsterdam. We gave it to them in exchange for surinam after we beat them in the Second Anglo-Dutch war I believe.
Thats true. We changed it for 1 dollar because England had their entire fleet in front of new Amsterdam. Fighting would be useless.
Bad trade ever 😅
I like the video . Hoever, there are some small errors in it. For example . The english didn't took new Amsterdam in 1644 . They took it in 1664 . After the best anglo - dutch war we traded it for nowdays Suriname . Also the map isnt really good . Your missing a lot of places (like dejima in Nagasaki (Japan) for example ) and other places you made them way bigger Them they are . Part of those errors i really like your work . Keep up the good work ^^
Not exactly. New Amsterdam was captured by the British, but briefly recaptured by the dutch. Then they traded it for suriname.
And there were no colonies in Japan. There were open ports, but they were never under any form of dutch rule
@@rollood7394 You're both wrong, it wasn't a "trade" for Suriname. By all intents and purposes, England severely lost the war. The treaty included many things much more important than new amsterdam or (modern day) Suriname. New Amsterdam was a worthless piece of land and the treaty was all about maintaining the nutmeg monopoly the Dutch held at that time. If new amsterdam (once again very unimportant) was "traded" for anything it was for the island of Run in modern Indonesia. I suggest reading about the nutmeg producing island its significance regarding the treaty of Breda.
@@br137 I had some college lectures about it, but that still doesnt mean I know thát much so thanks for correcting me :)
But by all means, New Amsterdam wasnt super unimportant. There was still a lot of trade with it. However, you should also take into account that defending that colony from the surrounding English settlers and native Americans was very expensive. It was also not a strategic spot for them. So their profits werent very high. Suriname was easier to defend and more profitable, so that made it an easy choice
No africa colonized Netherlands
Sri Lanka is also missing
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.
daddyleon the Dutch East India Company was worth 7 trillion dollars, what do you mean Apple first?
It is actually the Capitalist World. Your president have no power at all, companies are the ones who controll the countries. This is the real world.
You live in that universe right now, that's capitalism for you.
This still happens today. Big companies rule nations
@@gentlebabarian y'all missin my point.
back in the day, that was kinda...unheard off isfaik.
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
pre-industrial era industrialisation :D
Let that sink in...
Also we made pumps out of them, converting shallow bodies of water into arable land, which turned out to be very productive land.
@@AwoudeX It was the industrial revolution. For not only timber was produced at high speed, but paint, ropes, cement, and even iron products could be produced much faster by mechanical hammers, let the machine do it for you. Alcohol production in Schiedam, because of windmills. Pottery in Delft because of windmills that produced the liquid clay. And much more.
The Dutch and the Portuguese were always the underdogs of European expansion. That such small countries were able to create global empires is just stunning. Of course, Portugal and the Netherlands fought for supremacy over each other with mixed results. The Dutch were 'more' victorious in East Asia, whereas the Portuguese were 'more' victorious in South America. Nowadays, Dutch-Portuguese wars are only fought with a ball on a soccer pitch like the very funny 'Battle of Nuremberg', one of the most violent and chaotic football matches ever fought (ah, good times!): ruclips.net/video/cFDoPRSnefE/видео.html
As for Indonesia, you should precise that the islands of the archipelago are extremely diverse. Some of them were highly populated at the beginning of the 20th century. Some were almost empty. Borneo, New Guinea were covered with impenetrable jungles. And I don't speak of many of the minor islands. In fact, large parts of the colonial empire were little more than claims. During WWII the Allies flew above Papua and were surprised to discover agricultural lands where they thought there was only jungle and mountain.
Similar claims on maps were made by colonial powers in other regions, especially Africa. In many cases, the exploration was completed shortly before the independence.
Very true. My mother grew up on the island of Sumba as the daugther of a missonary docter. The Dutch arrived in earnest around 1900 on Sumba but in 1930 were still hardly present on the island. One could say Java after independence "colonised" more of Indonesia than the Dutch did before.
@@vingerhoedskruid1 missionaries and their Muslim equivalents brought only misery to the archipel 🥱
So what’s your point?
@@NetgrumpifyJazz his point is i made it the f up 🚬
I am proud to say as an American my Dutch-Indonesian ancestry!!
Nice story, the VOC has also been subject to corruption, but where does that not happen.
The Netherlands was one of the countries that had success with trade and violence in a certain period. Before that, the Spanish influence caused 80 years of misery in the Netherlands.
Spaniards were also very active in South America, but that too is over.
The English and French have also been very active and a little further back in time it was the Vikings.
The Roman Empire was huge and has also fallen. Only working together in peace is the solution for everyone, but unfortunately that will never happen.
Greetings from a Dutchman.
The Dutch initially had ambitions in the Malay Peninsula and signed a treaty with the local Perak ruler to establish a factory and a fort. It was burned down by the locals then came the British, and with the Dutch, they signed the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824 that ultimately dissected the Malay heartlands into two spheres, and today these two sides became Malaysia and Indonesia and each other are bickering over frivolous things like cuisine and culture but failed to realise how they are actually brothers split by imperial ambitions. Sad circumstance.
Not identical, but not unlike France and Germany.
Javanese are not malay...most of indonesian are not malay..
Different language..culture..even have their own script..
@@Jim_Colbert I was referring to the Malay areas of Sumatra and Peninsular Malaysia, never did i mention anything about the Javanese…
@@johane4764 so it's just tiny part of indonesia....malay in indonesia are small in number...,batak..aceh..minang..also have different languages and cultures ( although have similiarities ) while in malaysia even java..bugis considered as malay..
If you grouping minang..aceh as malay it just like you grouping javanese with balinese..sundanese..
They are have similiarities..but well..they are different...
@@johane4764 and you know malay blanket term use in malaysia is for political purpose to counter chinese and indian political influence..
New Amsterdam was sold to the english.
They payed for it by giving us their territory of Surinam.
who is us? You don't own shit lol
@@mitchellb3820
The dutch people.
I am a dutch citizen and therefore this piece of history is a part of my culture.
Just like people that support a soccer or football team, they also talk about my or our club.
Learn history...The dutch sold new amsterdam for Spice Island.. not suriname
@@mitchellb3820
The Dutch hardly had anything to do with Africa besides South Africa. Africa's main colonizers were England and France.
@@mitchellb3820 no culture... Only ignorance is shown by your comment. Even today the Dutch export their culture as in the top 10 of all DJ's, half is Dutch. That is but 1 example, that's still valid today. We've influenced the entire world with several of our cultural aspects. To say we have no culture, is absurd and divorced from reality. I hope you don't want to live divorced from reality any longer.
Good luck to you.
Without the Dutch no New York
Teringventje And no santa claus.
Without the swedes No new york
@@etanusmaskianus1916 Without the people of Bari no Sint Nicolaas or Santa Claus.
Graziano Laudisio without the romans no bari 😤
@@etanusmaskianus1916 Good one 😂
I'm from the old capital Recife (mauritsstad) of the Dutch colony of New Holland in the old captaincy of Pernambuco in Brazil.
and a funny story when the Dutch wanted to build a bridge here.
they promised to make a cow fly, to see would have to pay 10 florim hahaha they earned more than they spent to build the bridges
No wonder they revolted! They paid to see a cow fly, they wanted to see a cow fly!
Well Recife was Portuguese before and after the Dutch..
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
I'm Indonesian creator, but for me the Dutch history is a part of Indonesian History, that we (ID) should learn not by hatred, but by "curiosity" 🤓
Btw love The Admiral movie too
Inspect History Oh cool man! how is the dutch history generally regarded in indonesia? I have no idea, I would suspect some hatred or resentment being present though. I understand this isn't easy to write down in a comment, bit a general idea would be awesome
@@skeletonrowdie1768 yes, you're right dude! In order to increase national unity, national pride, or in short nationalism, government try to "antagonize" Dutch, and Indonesia heroes as "protagonist",
Indonesian see Dutch, just like Dutch see Spanish Empire, but with a bit of hatred, even today 😅
But the younger generation start to change, like me & my team try to portrait dutch as "another country", not as "another evil" Some of us, even learn from Wageningen University, especially if you want to learn "agriculture" 😁
@@InspectHistory admiral de.ruyte?
@@bosbanon3452 Yupppp! :)
Another enjoyable video, again about a country whose history I knew nothing about until watching this.
You do fit a lot of info in those 10 mins,
Great stuff 👍👍
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
Dutch people be like: *gEkOloNIsEeRD*
i don`t get it
@@izeiHH9675 It means colonised in Dutch, some Dutch jokingly spam this under post/videos about the Netherlands. Which is kinda annoying and kinda funny
Yeah . The Dutch equivalent of “but do you have a flag?”
@@izeiHH9675 It spawned together with other colonial memes from a few meme videos from our biggest meme producer, Studio Massa.
@@izeiHH9675 GEICO GEKKO
I'm Brazilian but have Dutch ancestry by the line of my father !!
The Dutch revolt and all the hipsters moved to Amsterdam. "Damn" said Amsterdam, "We gotta start pillaging some stuff"
You're not original to say a joke someone else said in a video (the history of the entire world i guess)
@@bsfjsadlkash2234 that video has millions of views, im not trying to be original, honestly you telling people to be original isn't itself original
That arguments sucks lol. How am i trying to be original to say that you're not original?
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The VOC was the first multinational and the Amsterdam Stock Exchange also the first in the world. What amazes me more though is that The Netherlands were very capable to hire Germans, French and people from other nationalities to work for the Dutch, because the country did not have enough inhabitants to conquer and establish all those trading posts by itself. Another important fact was that The Dutch were able to build ships much faster than their competitors, by using water as a source of energy to actively power the mills sawing wood. It took the British f.e. half a century longer to adapt the same system. Industrious people, the Dutch....and even nowadays with multinationals like Shell and Unilever to name a few (by the way, both partially British).
Industrious people? Are you comparing them to the British which created and led the industrial revolution?
@@maxdavis7722 the british never ever would become a world power without DUTCH money 💰! Learn history and NOT from the false british history books!
@@peterdevalk7929 what a strange point to make, any Dutch wealth that made its way into England pales in comparison to the success the English had through their own achievements.
@@peterdevalk7929 also what do you think the British history books say about the Dutch and what happened to their money? Seriously, it feels like you are trying to fight against propaganda that doesn’t exist.
@@maxdavis7722 I’ll bet 99.9% of the British never heard about the raid on the Midway; the most embarrassing defeat in the history of England. Or that a Dutch prince (Prins van Oranje) became King of England, Scotland and Ireland which was in fact another Dutch invasion of your precious island. In reality England (and later Ireland) was invaded by a large and well-trained Dutch army, initially 21,000 men but later increased, that was brought here in November 1688 on 500 ships - an armada four times larger than the Spanish armada of 1588. This was the one and only cause that huge amounts of capital fled from the most important city in the world a.t.t, Amsterdam to London. And NOT only that! Stock markets, Craftsmen, sophisticated technics, knowledge of making ships 3 times faster than any other country at that time (in fact the start of modern industrialisation) , etc. etc. also followed the Dutch king and the money. Without these FACTS England would never ever got the change to build on there empire and to “begin” modern industrialisation.
Read: “The Glorious Revolution of 1688-91 was really a Dutch invasion; this distortion of the facts reflects our narrow view of Britain's past, argues Jonathan Israel.” www.independent.co.uk/life-style/history-in-the-making-the-glorious-revolution-of-168891-was-really-a-dutch-invasion-this-distortion-of-the-facts-reflects-our-narrow-view-of-britain-s-past-argues-jonathan-israel-1565642.html
So much for propaganda that doesn't exists. Hope you're open to the truth and to learn something.
5:42 The English didn't take over they traded with the Dutch so they could get some Carribean islands and the English New Amsterdam
What was it that made The Netherlands "rich" or "important power". One part were the spice islands, yes. The other more important part however was their trade fleet and related trade dominance. The trade fleet was bigger than the whole of the rest of Europe put together during the 17th century. 20 times bigger than the English trade fleet for example (the Dutch-English and Dutch-Spanish wars were mostly about trade). Arguably more money was made on the Baltic trade as supposed on the spice trade. Just fyi 😎
The Dutch were also the inventors of capitalism.
@Arsenal In History Channel. The first capitalist in the world was VOC in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). By the way the Dutch also invented the microscope. 😊
A microscope and telescope are the same thing no?
With all the money we were making we also had to invent banks. Sorry about that.
@@rickenfatania no
@@IudiciumInfernalum I heard that the Knights Templar invent bank. Once again the source is History Channel. How could the Knights Templar invent bank?
I'm glad the Dutch never colonized my country. I'd rather be colonized by the British, not the Dutch
Nice video mate.. Thanks for another awesome video..🙏
The question should be how the Dutch created a colonial empire and. at the same time, failed to spread their language and culture elsewhere, except marginally to South Africa and Suriname.
Even though Indonesia was not a settlement colony, it is impressive how, after 350 years of Dutch presence, there is barely anything Dutch left there. A comparison to British India, which was not a settlement colony either, is warranted.
You have to understand the context. India did not have a langua franca so they took over English. In Indonesia already existed bahasa Indonesia so Dutch wasn't needed. Next to that were the Dutch not as much interested as other powers to spread their culture so how can you see it as a failure?
Great video, but you left out my country Ghana (colonial name: Gold Coast) in West Africa. The Dutch seized it from the Portuguese and British eventually took it from the Dutch, through Anglo-Dutch Treaties of 1870-71, but not before the Dutch had left their imprint.
The capital, Accra, was split into Dutchh Accra, British Accra, and Danish Accra. There was also Dutch Komenda to the west.
Dutch products like Schnapps remain popular in Ghana today. (People prefer the original to the local version). They also introduced Java cloths (from Indonesia, I presume), which continue to command premium prices because of their quality, although I don't believe they come from Java anymore.
And, oh, yes, they made plenty of babies along the coast. Hence, names like Vanderpuige, Ulzen, de Veer, de Bordes, and Van Hien in Ghana today.
Congrats for crossing 90k... Still you deserve 10million subs..
I think you (and almost every other youtuber that makes a video about this time period) missed a great opportunity by not discussing the economy of the low lands before, during and after the 80 years war. The Dutch would have never been able to fight the Spanish without the wealth acquired thru trade, production and innovation. De moedernegotie (baltic trade / mother of all trade), land reclamation projects and the staple markets in Antwerp and later Amsterdam were the foundation of the Dutch republic. The VOC (and to a lesser extant the WIC) might seem more interesting and capture the imagination but without the moedernegotie it wouldn’t exist. I think it’s a shame that, whenever somebody talks about Dutch history (on youtube), this fascination subject is completely ignored or overlooked. The basic requirments for the trading empire build like building/maintaining a fleet that could travel and dominate the world seas and oceans would have been impossible without the wood imports from Scandinavia and the population couldn’t sustain itself without the grain imports from the PLC and Russia.
I hope you will make a video about this subject because it's fascinating and more people should know about this, the Dutch golden age was more than the fantasized voyage to the far east. It was a time were the average Dutch household enjoyed a living standard unmatched in Europe and it was (at least partly) because of the mother of all trade, de moedernegotie.
About the necessary wealth for fighting Spanish Army, I have to remember that incomes from trade was only a tiny part of it. The most of income came from all the properties that protestant nobles stole from the Catholic Church. In fact, most of the time they didn't fight against Spanish, but against other nobles who didn't want to become protestant. It was kind of a civil war in which some of the nobles (protestant ones) had the help of England as an ally and the others (the catholic ones) the occasional support of their Spanish king.
Great video brother, just one small correction, the Xhosa were the ones who broke the agreement with the Boers
It’s very easy, Portuguese expelled the Jews, some went to Holland, they took the knowledge, maps, investment, secrets, routes, etc. The rest is history. All Dutch colonies were former Portuguese colonies.
5:50 We never lost New Amsterdam, we gave it to the English in a trade where we received Suriname. This deal mostly happened because we won the 2nd Dutch-Anglo war.
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Wow the Dutch were playing on hard mode from the start 😃! And accomplished so much. They have much to be proud of!
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@Johan StrydomGroeten uit Noord-Holland :D
It helps when you have a delta running trough your country, making it ideal for placing harbors and ship stuff inland. The wealth that trade brought, made my ancestors buy the power through mercenaries. The accomplishment lies in how well the Dutch commanded the mercenaries. It was so effective that the methods became common thereafter. This is how we weren't overrun by Spain. On top of that, good diplomatic relations with several neighbours that were willing to help.
@Majin MJ That was how it was done in that time by all powerfull countries.
Colonization is something to be proud of? So weird
Hij is helemaal thierry baudets gekoloniseerde trap vergeten
Maat hahah
The only thing I know about the Netherlands 🇳🇱 is that it conquered Indonesia 🇮🇩 for a long time and that it has colonies in the Caribbean and South America how Curacao 🇨🇼 and Suriname 🇸🇷
We don't have any colonies anymore. Surinam got it's independence in 1954 and left the kingdom in 1975. Indonesia got it's independence in 1949.
Curaçao, Aruba and Sint Maarten are independent countries within the kingdom, while Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba are municipalities within the kingdom.
@@taand4725if you think about it, we as the netherlands have more territorial colonial leftovers than like, the UK (idk if you can count the commonwealth) because of the caribbean municipalities and stuff
Every time they came to a country they liked the look they challenged the locals to a game of garden Jenga and if they won they kept the country, that's what a Dutchman told in a cafe in Amsterdam, so it must be true.
It’s interesting hope so much of European history centres around getting to India
It's all about the spices and the British and Dutch managed to maximize their profit by not using them in their kitchen
5:42 new Amsterdam was traded with Suriname. It wasn't taken over by the English with a fight.
My family is proof of the old Dutch Colonization. All my grandparents were born and raised in Dutch East Indies. Remained Dutch citizens and left for Holland after Indonesian Independence. Now I live in 'New World' (Canada, not NYC) with cousins in Suriname and Singapore and rest of fam still in Holland (yes, the province).
My mother has a story of her family being in dutch east india with her relative once, and a snake came along and snuck up on the child who was in her bench, and the family who were sitting besides the house, threw a spoon at the snake, and the snake and the spoon were both gone when they went looking. Very strange....
There is a common sense in Pernambuco (a state in Brazil where I come from, which was dominated by the Dutch in the 17th century for a short time) that if the Dutch had defeated the Portuguese, and permanently established a colony in that province, this region in Brazil would be more prosperous and socially equal than it is today. Which is completely ridiculous, colonialism is colonialism, it sucks no matter if it's the English, the French, the Portuguese...
We wouldnt know would we?
Yes Pernambuco would be as "wonderful" as Apartheid South Africa, Indonesia, Guyana........🤣🤣🤣
@@claudiopereira9900 South Africa is wonderful! I would rather live in beautiful South Africa than in the rainy Netherlands
@@gevoel8293 SA is an amazing land, but come one SA society is awful sorry to say
@@claudiopereira9900 I am sorry but I would rather live in South Africa, there are many wonderful people in South Africa too... not all are as bad as you think. And besides the Netherlands is definitely not as great as you might think it is.
How to colonize a territory:
- Eng, Fr, Neth, Bel:
Erase the locals or confine them to reserves, repopulate with your own people, build factories and plantations, get some slaves to work in them, enrich the whites through trade and exploitation of resources, turn it into a puppet/failed state, never totally leave.
- Rome, Greece, Spain:
Conquer the land by war and agreements, alphabetize and convert the locals, make them your own citizens, build universities, temples and cities, enrich the whites and the locals through trade and exploitation of resources, get looted by your enemies, collapse.
- Portugal:
Lets do both!
Very informative, I didn’t know much about the subject. Keep up the good work 🎉
Even Brazil was Dutch at some period in history
Hecc even England was.
Who kicked the Dutch out of Brazil?
@@jeanbethencourt1506 Portugal I think, if it wasn't for Spain and their "Iberian union", the dutch would have never stolen the portuguese colonies
@@jeanbethencourt1506 What is Brasil's National language? Here is the answer
Only northwestern parts
Nicely explained.
S P E C E R I J E N !
Engelse drop ? whahahaha 🤪
@@MrGlume Bloody hell...
I like how even the use of the flags on the ships are correct!
I just want to let you know that Jan Pieterszoon Coen didn't do anything wrong
He did
@@imawormbeforeiamaman4261 yes, he did alot wrong, but mostly because he was reckless. And that makes it even worse.
Knowledgia creates awesome history videos.
The Dutch came to Cambodia in the early 1600s but were defeated in the Cambodian-Dutch War
. By the 1670s the Dutch left all their trading posts.
Always waiting for new video
The main reason the Dutch where able to do this all is because of the invention of the crankshaft. This enabled saw mills that in turn enabled them to cut wood faster and thus build ships faster. If not for the crankshaft the Dutch would have never been able to compete on the sea's as they wouldn't have had the manpower to build as many ships as they did.
This is the first argument I've read that makes any real sense.
@@jerrysamuels8716 The 'big money' was made by buying wheat from Sweden and Poland (Ukraine exported by Poland as well) and distributing this all over the rest of Europe. Wheat from the Netherlands is of a low quality because of less sun and more rain. The only good quality was rye and oat, but most people like wheat products. Dutch farmers could concentrate on other products with high value, like cheese, butter, meat, fruits and vegetables, which were sold to buy the wheat. This process is called Moedernegotie (Mother of all trade).
Thank you for digging into this subject, i feal heard. Very good video, looking forward to the next one.
forgets south africa
I love your channel. I really wish you the best!
The Netherlands, Portugal and Venice name a more iconic merchant trio
it's the Dutch peoples who make my history book thicker 😑
@@jatijom and that Sangiran boii
@@jatijom The Dutch as a people haven't existed as the Netherlands before, but their history doesn't begin in 1568. We're a bit older than that. Grave monuments as old as 3350 BC. exist in the region i grew up in. That's 5000 years of history and then some.
Me as a dutch archeologist I love watching these videos 😁👍
And did you know the nederlands had a slavery trade post 😧
Sun never sets on Dutch empire
If the Dutch were smarter in North America at the time, they would have never let New Amsterdam go. And perhaps parts of the USA would now all have spoken Dutch. Or at least New York!
Funny to think about. But as so well explained in this video, the Dutch focused more on trade than hardcore colonization or warfare (they did had a powerful naval fleet for centuries and won many, many naval battles against Spain, UK and Portugal). Also a cool fact regarding the Dutch: The Dutch republic had exclusive trading rights with Japan (as a European power) for about 2 centuries (through 1 trading post, the Island of Deshima, 出島). The only trade or contact between Japan and Europe between 1641 and 1859, was by the Dutch republic (and after 1815, Kingdom of The Netherlands). I think that is so cool for such a tiny country.
And as the finishing touch, God created the Dutch.
Forgetting to mention that just 100 years ago The Dutch where the only onese allowed to trade with the Japanese Empire, they where closed from the world exept for The Dutch. Same with Chine which also closed itself from the then known world, only to open up for The Dutch. Dutch didn't want to convert indigenous peoples to some unknown faith, they just wanted to trade, that was all.
*they just want to force countries to trade with them in exchange for petty pennies
Iam happy there is at least 1 video on youtube with correct information.
Portugal and the Netherlands were by far the smallest European nations to colonise the world.
Netherlands in asia:😠😎😤💪👊
Netherlands in Europe:😿😢😭🙏
RATIO
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Dutch: Forgive but Not Forget that how we see them in Indonesia.
Hello, bro, there must be some transcripts for you to read when making this video. So why not use them as its closed captions? RUclips provides an excellent tool to the author like you to read in a text file, then it generates the closed captions for the video. Thus it benefits the non-native English speakers, also increases your subscribers. So why not? Thanks a lot for sharing the knowledge on this piece of history anyways.
Z E G M A K K E R
kokosnoot zijn geen specerijen
@@Jamy-dc9kk zeg, moet jij eens goed luisteren- *TONK*
**TRAGISCHE MUZIEK**
We did not 'lose' New Amsterdam to the British. We swapped it against Surinam.
*How did the Dutch create a colonial empire?*
Me : boats...
ships and guns, lotsa guns!
Multinational colonisation.
Jose Raul Miguens Cruz Chill, dude.
VOC
@@sosig6445 And Germans! A lot of Germans! ;)
Not to forget. The Dutch East India company was the biggest company the world has ever seen. They invented the stock market and practically are the founders of capitalism. If you weigh in inflation and other factors. They would be worth $7.8 trillion if they were around now. That's about 7 times Apple.
1:05 you mention the Dutch historians lack of use of ‘imperialism.’ Are there any key historiographic works on this topic? Would love to compare to the US example
What about Formosa and New Holland?
G E K O L O N I S E E R D
New Holland was never colonised iirc
John Deer is mine tractor
Awesome show!
I don’t know what it is like now, but in my Dutch childhood in the 1950s nutmeg was used on a par with salt and pepper.
And...chocolate 🤣
why not mention Deshima, the only foreign trading post in Japan till 1854 ?
kinda ok as it is , succes keep it gooing mate
the netherlands has always been a huge naval power. it is more surprising that belgium got as much as they did, considering the few ports they had. also far more interesting because the belgian king got those colonies with his cunning, instead of pure military force.
The Netherlands were probably the ones who destroyed Portugal's chances to be a rich and powerful country nowadays. If it was not for the Iberian Union, and the Portuguese and Spanish Empire weren't melted, the Dutch would have never attacked our colonies in India and Brazil and we would have never lost them. After the fall of the Iberian Union, the most we had was Brazil, which we lost some centuries later. After that it was decline at its best.
Maybe we could have been as rich as Spain, or the Dutch.
Obviously this would have never happened if D.Sebastião hadn't died but still... what we could have been
I just googled it and apparently The Netherlands are still officially called The Kingdom of The Netherlands💀💀💀💀
Well yes they are a monarchy