The Dutch Colonial Empire: Small Metropole, Big Ambitions

[@remcohoman1011]

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]

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

[@lucm159]

Its a 12 minute video, calm down

[@Donello]

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

[@MappingEagle]

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

[@lucm159]

@@MappingEagle yes

[@FlipTomasi]

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

[@htimsid]

The Amsterdam Stock Exchange is often considered the oldest "modern" securities market in the world. However, other economists argue that a 'share market' existed as the ancient Roman societates publicanorum.

[@lillekenatnek195]

@@htimsid the stock exchange as we know it today

[@bertnijhof5413]

A missed major point!! In 1688 stadtholder William III of Orange of the Dutch Republic visited England with 400 ships and 40,000 men. Stadtholder is best explained as a lifelong president elected by the parliament. This Special Military Operation (SMO) had been approved by the parliament of the Dutch Republic. The Dutch SMO fleet was the largest fleet ever seen before 1800. The result was that William III and his English wife Princess Mary became King and Queen of England. They were without children, so after William's death the English crown went to the German house of Hannover. The Dutch goals for this SMO have been reached, it did break up the alliance between the catholic kings Louis XIV of France and James II of England and the West German Bishops of Munster and Cologne. That France, English and German alliance almost did overrun the Duch Republic in 1672 with the armies of France and West Germany on land and the combined fleets of England and France on sea. In the end all were beaten by William III on land and Admiral de Ruyter on the sea. After the SMO, James II was replaced by William III and Mary, while England and the Dutch Republic became allies against France for say the next ~80 years. The English call it the Glorious Revolution, but basically William had been demanded a written invitation by the Magnificent Seven and the protestants in the English army were reluctant to fight for the catholic James II. Afterwards the combined English/Dutch armies suppressed uprisings, supported by James II and France troops in Scotland and Ireland. In North Ireland there is still a remnant of that time called the protestant organization of the Orangists.

[@pulsaran]

But remember according to the English they had the biggest impact on the US, not mentioning they almost spoke "German" i guess just like the Amish, because they are not Dutch inspired. Let alone New York and other city's. Not even mentioning Spain influence. But yeah, it was only the English and they had also no influence from the Netherlands and visa versa, but the Dutch are at least aware of it. I guess one thing the US got from the English is there ignorance of the world XD

[@Draregkoeliekalie]

​@@pulsaranthats history written by the winner.

[@Umadatme]

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

[@Matthijsklaassen]

"We?" Did you go there in person?

[@nielsdekker2930]

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

[@tomz5704]

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

[@taal1979]

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

[@Kelvinpierre99]

​@@Matthijsklaassenbijdehandje

[@harcovanhees394]

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]

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]

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

[@mackjigger6030]

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

[@iliketabasco]

Never in your life you dutch discover anything. Just pirates and privateer's after what is others goods.

[@annebokma4637]

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

[@oddballsok]

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

[@Eitner100]

The English author Simon Schama wrote several very interesting books about the theme how The Netherlands traded worldwide. An important question was how such a small country was able to almost own great parts of the world.

[@sinistrell]

The VOC did not make use of black slaves in Indonesia bar a few rare cases. They acquired slaves from local slave markets and from other areas in the region. Arab slavers did bring (East) African slaves to the region but mostly to the Mughal empire, and in any case castrated them so they could not reproduce. Both are reasons you don't see significant black populations in the region today.

[@remcohoman1011]

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]

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

[@keesvanwesterop2954]

Where?

[@Bundy72]

​@@keesvanwesterop2954Rijksmuseum.

[@Jeroenhermanjan]

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

[@Bundy72]

​@@JeroenhermanjanAnd preferably forgotten.

[@010Jordi]

The 2nd Anglo Dutch war was decided with the raid on the medway and definitely was a Dutch victory

[@jappiejojo777]

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

[@AlejandroJavierHernandez-si4qz]

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

[@tylerclayton6081]

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]

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

[@henkmertens7120]

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

[@NewNetherlandNow]

@@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.

[@valentijnrozeveld3773]

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]

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

[@valentijnrozeveld3773]

@@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]

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]

Touché. 😂

[@teunvanderwal646]

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

[@YPR34]

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 😊

[@80Mrblueeyes]

Thanks for the video

[@rientsdijkstra4266]

Actually the Dutch did not "colonize" much in the way the English and French did, in the sense of taking over control over large stretches of land. What the Dutch did in general was smarter and more efficient. They set up trading posts and towns, and made *deals* with local leaders and aristocrats to have the local people work for them (producing all kinds of tradeable goods). Cooperation in stead of domination (sometimes mixed with a little military domination to make a point...)... In this way the Dutch where able to set up a large trading empire, with relative minor means and costs...

[@bioold8925]

Indeed and the local leaders agreed to pay their people who did the work. Only some of them didn't pay their workers very well and kept the bulk for themselves. To build palaces, roads and whatever. Maybe an early form of tax? 😀

[@MTi729]

I love the small mention of the city of Zutphen. I have lived there for my entire life. In my life I have learned the significance we had in the Dutch history.

[@tompommerel2136]

I question the appropriacy of using the Irish-inspired, post American Civil War song 'When Johnny comes marching home' as backing for this topic.

[@YPR34]

Nice video. Very cool visuals

[@mhead188]

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

[@arthurreede4478]

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]

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

[@tygodegier3110]

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]

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

[@tygodegier3110]

@@crab-finger but they didnt 😂

[@FransBlaas1]

Thanks for this history… 😊

[@robertomorsink2014]

Very well made! More views please!

[@bobthebarber777]

Wij zijn een zeer getalenteerd en intelligent volk, jammer dat men daar niet meer echt trots op mag zijn.

[@MultiLinda42]

Ik ben er trots op een echte inheemse Nederlander te zijn.

[@ALT-up4st]

Je hoort niet trots te zijn op slavernij, apartheid, genocide etc. Niemand zegt dat je niet trots mag zijn om Nederlands te zijn huilebalk

[@Wierie_]

@@MultiLinda42stiekem? Of laat je buitenlanders niet over je heen lopen

[@Sphinxgamingworld9942]

First start by enforcing your language to be spoken by all the immigrants that settle in your country. If there is no assimilation there is replacement.

[@Jeroen080679]

Wat is dat nou weer voor een gelul?

[@T40Xdav]

2:50 that’s not were Zutphen is

[@TimSerras]

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]

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

[@janvisser4132]

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]

@@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]

@@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]

@@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.

[@DaveShap]

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]

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

[@markusbg8]

Music was just fine

[@HittriX1]

I agree that the music is a bit to loud

[@kenster8270]

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]

no the problem is it is british

[@BiNumLi]

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]

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

[@renejagers4364]

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]

Exactly.

[@ronaldderooij1774]

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]

@@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).

[@laurenthoutappel1258]

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

[@tygodegier3110]

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

[@jayy5756]

Love the info but the background jingle is WAY too repetitive

[@History_Mapped_Out]

Yes, we've fixed that in the following videos

[@ClaesVaack-ce8vi]

​@@History_Mapped_Out "Wat zullen we drinken by Rapalje" would be better as background music 😉

[@SB_15-33]

They act like it's something to brag about that they took mostly land from people that couldn't protect themselves & made them slaves. NL can be proud by victory's over UK, Spain etc tho

[@SaigonMouse]

The dutch VOC also have tried to colonize Vietnam. Between 1620 and 1670 they had the chance to have good trading relations there, but they didnt behave very well and used force to get more influence. Several times they were defeated by the Vietnamese.

[@Jerome-Philippines]

Tried to take the Philippines also: The Battles of La Naval de Manila or Battle of Manila Bay (Spanish: Batallas de las marinas de Manila) were a series of five naval battles fought in the waters of the Spanish East Indies in the year 1646, in which the forces of the Spanish Empire repelled various attempts by forces of the Dutch Republic to invade Manila, during the Eighty Years' War. The Spanish forces, which included many native volunteers, consisted of two, and later, three Manila galleons, a galley and four brigantines. They neutralized a Dutch fleet of nineteen warships, divided into three separate squadrons. Heavy damage was inflicted upon the Dutch squadrons by the Spanish forces, forcing the Dutch to abandon their invasion of the Philippines

[@SeverityOne]

It's interesting that wars ended the Dutch colonial empire, because it's a small country that is easily overrun by its larger neighbours. The conquest by France at the end of the 18th century meant that England/the UK took many of its colonies (as was previously agreed) and kept some of them after the French defeat (which was not agreed). It happened again during/after WW2.

[@bjornr1120]

Easily.? They where bound together, to defeat the voc.. they couldn't do it on there own.. lol

[@SeverityOne]

@@bjornr1120 *were *their The VOC has ceased to exist 150 years before the Dutch colonisation of Indonesia ended. I was talking about England, Germany, and France. All of them have been at war with the Netherlands at some point, and both France and Germany overran and occupied it.

[@bjornr1120]

@SeverityOne true.. every nation has occupied a different nation, and was occupied by a different one.. not 1 nation in Europe hasn't been occupied by a different nation.

[@SeverityOne]

@bjornr1120 Except, arguably, Sweden. 🙂 Although even they had territory occupied in what is now Finland.

[@josephrosati9921]

Stupendous video my good sir

[@peterdevalk7929]

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

[@harrysiereveld6485]

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

[@collectioneur]

Pointless comment…

[@peterdevalk7929]

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

[@futuretyrant]

@@peterdevalk7929 niggativities

[@NewNetherlandNow]

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.

[@Draregkoeliekalie]

The fact the dutch rarely forced their religion on the locals made them ppreferred trade partners in most places of the world. Still there was a lot of violence and death everywhere they went just like every nation in the history of the world that cobquered lands from others. Looking at history all the big empires are so interesting to read about. During most reigns mankind made much progress in general, but it always came at the cost of so much misery and death. Its human history though so we all know whats coming again... Actually allready happening in lots of places in the world.

[@MrFosite]

It wasnt one of the first stock exchanges, it was the very first.

[@dimrrider9133]

Nee Antwerpen was eerder.

[@mennol3885]

​@@dimrrider9133 That is also Dutch historically. But you are right, I don't know how the story of De Amsterdamse Beurs being the first real exchange came about. Amsterdam being the first is old "knowledge" and pre dates the internet. There is probably a book somewhere that spread this "knowledge"

[@cobra4356]

Don't play Risk with the Netherlands

[@SDAM-]

Good and informative Video about the Based Dutch Empire!

[@dimrrider9133]

Toen waren ze netter dan nu ons koningshuis heft nogal wat huntingparties gegeven, zoek maar ff op wat dat zijn. Het geslacht van de kinderen werd iig opgezet en opgehangen als trophy

[@peterdebrie]

Goede geschiedenis les

[@JohnDove-d8d]

*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.

[@eindhovendegekste168]

Quite impressive for such a small country.

[@kkemp221]

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'

[@Olifantenstaart]

Small note: you use a modern map. In reality, much of the Netherlands were under water at the time.

[@NiekVanDerWegen]

Meneer met bloedneus gaat het?

[@YPR34]

And Dejima in Japan

[@SilverScarletSpider]

i’d love to see a video of belgium 🇧🇪 netherlands 🇳🇱 denmark 🇩🇰 and poland 🇵🇱 teaming up to create a super empire

[@theriffguy8237]

So Reformation Vs Counter Reformation.

[@MultiLinda42]

Very proud to be a native Dutch❤

[@SeverityOne]

Because of colonisation, murdering natives, or the slave trade?

[@EGO0808]

You should actually be ashamed instead.

[@durendalebattlefieldtours6773]

Nice overview, well done! Two additions. 1) An additional important pillar of the economy was fishery and whaling. A better preservation technique allowed fisherman to go further. 2) The VOC used a big fleet of armed traders (Oostinjevaarder or return ship. In many cases they could hold their own and in dangerous waters they formed fleets. When a return fleet came home it was a national event.

[@theoroeloffzen394]

Stattholder Maurits von Nassau was his name, he was never called of Orange in that time, its a fairy that is created much later, afther tis branch had left without childeren. In 1815 another limb of the Nassau family crowned himself as King of the Netherlands, the oldest Republic of Europe, he gave titles as baron to protestant landowners, who never had titles before, but they have to support him . The Catholic majority was discriminated untill the 20th century. With tax money they enriched themself, in 1815 he was poor, but in 1950 the queen Wilhelmina was the richest woman of the world. Good job, the poor people payed it.

[@arthurreede4478]

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

[@tygodegier3110]

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 😂🤝

[@andik-eo4wv]

Belanda vs russia indonesia

[@irenehabes-quene2839]

This is not unknown just because you didn’t know. Today we realise how much pain and suffering the Dutch caused all over the globe so we are no longer proud about this part of our history.

[@koopalibrary]

The fall of antwerp helped the dutch as well in a weird way.

[@natheriver8910]

Very interesting

[@TorMax9]

A very industrious, enterprising, innovative people. Adventurous and confident and cocky. Cutting-edge. Not very good at diplomacy, though. Stubborn and stolid and stoic. Enlightened alliances would have helped.

[@arfaannoermahomed3443]

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

[@rogarizurieta7641]

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

[@Yesitsme_gaming]

I learned more from this than all my history lessons COMBINED

[@qazatqazah]

That music... It's too much.

[@artificial-frequencies]

@2:30 Maurice = Maurits If you do something, do it good

[@TorMax9]

If you write something, write it well.

[@mikewiersma5160]

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

[@edwardbergevoet]

Engeland is geen land maar een deel van een land, ja als we dan toch zo gaan beginnen :-) (GB)

[@mikewiersma5160]

@edwardbergevoet je noemt nederland toch ook noet koninkrijk der Nederlanden omdat er meer landen bijhoren. Je snapte wat ik bedoel. En vk is volgens mij de verzameling van, Engeland is wel een land apart maar onderdeel van de vk

[@dimrrider9133]

he is right we are a state of the USA under a broke Washington. Nederland is zelfs gewoon een bedrijf, zoek maar op

[@TamamFlop]

Het woord staat is in principe een synoniem voor het woord land. Het komt alleen door wat een staat is gaan betekenen in amerikaanse context dat jij een staat beschouwt als minderwaardig aan het woord land.

[@arthurg8515]

In Frans gebruik je ook het woord staat voor landen "État".

[@armygetic2509]

2000 ships*

[@e.w.3819]

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.

[@naj_z]

The Textele industry in Tilburg has literally nothing to do with the era of the 80 years war.

[@paulboluijt6368]

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

[@mackjigger6030]

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

[@Tjalie-j6i]

Yes, we Dutch conquered Britain

[@Reytan-e8x]

Thjey think they conquered the Mars and Cassiopeia.

[@ClaesVaack-ce8vi]

Never happened, London isn't Britain

[@Tjalie-j6i]

@ClaesVaack-ce8vi We conquered Britain and London m8.

[@DeMaster1985]

The Hague* :)

[@TheFreshestLyrics]

Of course the eternal Anglo had to ruin it again.

[@janbeens5514]

That's why we have ,,God are with us,, on the ridge of the 2 Euro coint. 😅

[@SeverityOne]

"God be with us..." aanvoegende wijs (subjunctive mood).

[@ArendJanV]

Didn’t make Dutch stadholder himself king of England?

[@jandenijmegen5842]

He was asked by the protestant Englishmen, made a perfect invasian and was crowned William III. He was married to future Queen Mary II (a Stuart and British). By the way Williams invading fleet was bigger than the armada: 463 ships and 40.000 men. (no women?)

[@Klierland12]

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.

[@Reytan-e8x]

Dutch are calvinists,so heartless collective smooth robots,without the human touch,although very well mimiced.

[@jankeizer407]

It says much about inventivity of the Dutch. This inventivity evolved by the raclemation of land by building dikes together, which made teamwork needed, and building windmils to pump water out of the lower lands. The name Netherlands is derived from that. Mills were also transformed to saw-mills so they could build boats, at first for fishing but evolved to further exploration of the seas. The name Holland is derived from the name Holtland. Holt means Wood. The Netherlands once was a very wooded area. By cutting away forests floods took land and made the Dutch build dikes.

[@Reytan-e8x]

Absurd. Read Germania of Tacit Absolutely no forests.

[@MB777]

You make this shit up as you go... The Netherlands is a delta area... lotta swamp and water... Holtland was only the estuary region of the river Rhine!

[@RMN-j9e]

@@Reytan-e8x Sorry but that is nonsense : The Netherlands was once covered with primeval or natural forest. Primeval forest does not (anymore) occur in the Netherlands. (source : KNBV). On June 10, 1871, the last tree was felled here in the eight-thousand-year-old old forest, the last primeval forest in the Netherlands - Beekbergerwoud. Found on nineteenth-century maps as 'Het Woud'. (source : Natuurmonumenten).

[@Greenland-is-not-europe]

Dutch have now been Dutchfeated

[@peterdevalk7929]

By whom exactly?

[@Greenland-is-not-europe]

Dutchfeated like defeated the indigenous > indigenous defeated back

[@Monkeyamingus777]

​@@Greenland-is-not-europe i will colonize you for saying that

[@Greenland-is-not-europe]

@@Monkeyamingus777 we must colonize each other

[@willeisinga2089]

Nederland was a Republic. First Republic in the World.

[@Reytan-e8x]

Didnt you ever heard about Athens,chap ?

[@mennol3885]

The first in the modern western world.

[@SeverityOne]

@@mennol3885 San Marino...

[@thogrimironhammer8563]

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

[@ClaesVaack-ce8vi]

Which one?

[@Feyenoord-el8ip]

Very good, one of the few who started with trade and shipping to the Baltic Sea.

[@Reytan-e8x]

Vikings ?

[@Feyenoord-el8ip]

@Reytan-e8x No, it's about him explaining that the Netherlands earned its money with Baltic Sea shipping and that it doesn't start with the VOC

[@somedutchguy9184]

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

[@andik-eo4wv]

Belanda papua wen

[@timdebruijne9127]

Basically, we ruled and still do 😜

[@Reytan-e8x]

Dutch are not very bright nor realistic.

[@gilerarunner3358]

Nice video but you forget many more lands and islands we had.

[@daphefuell176]

Nederlands stole a lot from the Portuguese maps etc...

[@JuniorJuni070]

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]

What is bro talking about This isn't about Russia

[@r.i.peperoniiiiroh9625]

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

[@nofearofwater]

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]

@@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]

@@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

[@AhmedNaim-yp5wh]

It is unknown by thèse who dont know

[@pulsaran]

Its not capitalism the Dutch invented, its corporatism..... Yes the Dutch have allot in common with the US, no taxation without representation XD I read the way they "recruited" the sailors going to the east Indies, it was not pretty ;-) Great video on a couple of details off. Like capitalism but then its a Marxist phrase.

[@saintinel]

What a small country can be great at...

[@ClaesVaack-ce8vi]

It's not about the country, it's about the people living there

[@YPR34]

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]

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.

[@Grunn1965]

Those where the days.. 🇳🇱👊

[@benjamindejonge3624]

Compared with other Europeans the Dutch were extremely mild in their colonisation

[@GieraZzZ]

The independence of Holland from Spain was also because of the Ottoman Empire. Same you don’t mention it

[@MrElstef]

It contributed to the independence of the Netherlands, but they Ottamans were no official allies. They were both at war with Spain. The independence of Holland for a big part was because Holland got rich very fast, and Spain got poor very fast. One of the things that contributed to this was Phillip II, a devoted Catholic. More pious than the Pope itself, who wanted to expell all non Catholics out of his empire. And started to persecute, the Jews, Protestants, Hugenots, Arabs etc. They all fled Spain, and lots of them fled to the Netherlands, first to Antwerp, and when Spain reconcered the southern region, they went to Amsterdam, bringing all kind of new Kmowledge with them and money out of spin and into The Netherlands. Especially the 10.000 Spanish and Portuguese Jews added to Dutch welfare, being rich merchants, private bankers, and diamond cutters. The other direction the persecuted fled to was to North Africa. Most Arabs and Jews went there. Also bringing even more welfare to the Ottoman group. As a consequence, Spain lost a big part of his income source. And being at war with the Ottamans. And with the Dutch in the lowlands. Their Royal treasury ran out of money very quickly.

[@GieraZzZ]

@ indeed. For the record I never said they were allies, it was more reaching out to an enemy of my enemy. Nevertheless the Ottoman Empire played a role in the independence of Holland from Spain and almost nobody mention that. It is like making your own history.

[@TamamFlop]

@@GieraZzZbecause the role was small, some financial support and some goods are not really significant to the story at all. Thanks for the help but this wasnt in anyway a determining factor.

[@ricardocoesel4706]

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

[@SeverityOne]

Nee, het narratief uit echokamers zeker. Iedere keer weer de media de schuld geven... maar ja, rechts-radicalen en -extremisten hebben _altijd_ iemand nodig om de schuld te geven: links, de media, immigranten, de EU...

[@ilaphroaig]

Lot's of errors in this video. Too bad.

[@iliketabasco]

Honestly they just went after the Portuguese empire. Coordinated attacks with England, Spain and France (all corsairs) throught out all the empire at the same time. Thats no honour in that. I feel amazed how the netherland is more "Hollywood 'ish" than the real Portuguese empire and deeds.. more even than england, Spanish and France all together..

[@peterdevalk7929]

And where is Portugal now. A 3rd world country-like bunch of beggars.

[@SeverityOne]

There was honour in colonialism and slave trade? That's a new one.

[@JPWest020]

Those were great times;-)

[@ClaesVaack-ce8vi]

And we f🤬 it up big time after those times

[@SeverityOne]

They weren't particularly great if you were colonised, or sold into slavery.

[@sonnysantino7849]

UNKNOWN???? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@siriusfeline]

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.

[@maartenbrante]

Black slaves in the Dutch Indies? Really? There is quite bit more wrong with this video. AI made?

[@roodborstkalf9664]

Good video, mostly correct.

[@emmaharris9530]

Intercontinental slavery And exploitation that’s Dutch heritage as well - big time

[@pcrypto5765]

The Slave Trade to the West was done by the Arabs >> They still do it with Slave Trade to the East nowadays !!!

[@Witch_of_calamity]

ORANJE BOVEN RAAAHHH

[@RoderikvanReekum]

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

[@BartmanMi]

And now... Lol