The Dutch East India Company: The Richest Company In The World

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Visitors to Amsterdam will be familiar with it’s tall, narrow buildings and labyrinth of canals which run past the winding streets with typical Dutch names such as Lindenstraat, Keizersgracht and Damstraat. But away from the well-trodden tourist paths of the city centre, in the eastern district, are some streets with not-so typical Dutch sounding names like Balistraat, Sumatrastraat, and Borneostraat. These are situated within what is known locally as the Indian neighbourhood and are named in reference to what was once the Dutch controlled East Indies.
Constituting much of the modern state of Indonesia, these islands came to be ruled by the Netherlands over 7000 miles away, when the Dutch East India Company established itself in the region some 400 years ago and quickly grew to become the richest company the world had ever seen.
Possessing quasi-governmental powers, including the ability to wage war, imprison and execute convicts, negotiate treaties, strike its own coins and establish colonies, it is often considered to be the world’s first multinational corporation and one which set the precedent for how modern business and international trade are conducted to this day. But what inspired these Dutch merchants to undertake the lengthy and perilous journey to the far side of the world? This is the history of the Dutch East India Company.
The United East India was a chartered company established on 20 March 1602 by the States General of the Netherlands amalgamating existing companies into the first joint-stock company in the world, granting it a 21-year monopoly to carry out trade activities in Asia. Shares in the company could be bought by any resident of the United Provinces and then subsequently bought and sold in open-air secondary markets (one of which became the Amsterdam Stock Exchange). It is sometimes considered to have been the first multinational corporation. It was a powerful company, possessing quasi-governmental powers, including the ability to wage war, imprison and execute convicts, negotiate treaties, strike its own coins, and establish colonies.
Statistically, the VOC eclipsed all of its rivals in the Asia trade. Between 1602 and 1796 the VOC sent almost a million Europeans to work in the Asia trade on 4,785 ships, and netted for their efforts more than 2.5 million tons of Asian trade goods. By contrast, the rest of Europe combined sent only 882,412 people from 1500 to 1795, and the fleet of the English (later British) East India Company, the VOC's nearest competitor, was a distant second to its total traffic with 2,690 ships and a mere one-fifth the tonnage of goods carried by the VOC. The VOC enjoyed huge profits from its spice monopoly through most of the 17th century.
Having been set up in 1602 to profit from the Malukan spice trade, the VOC established a capital in the port city of Jayakarta in 1609 and changed its name to Batavia (now Jakarta). Over the next two centuries the company acquired additional ports as trading bases and safeguarded their interests by taking over surrounding territory. It remained an important trading concern and paid an 18% annual dividend for almost 200 years. Much of the labour that built its colonies was from people it had enslaved.
Weighed down by smuggling, corruption and growing administrative costs in the late 18th century, the company went bankrupt and was formally dissolved in 1799. Its possessions and debt were taken over by the government of the Dutch Batavian Republic. The former territories owned by the VOC went on to become the Dutch East Indies and were expanded over the course of the 19th century to include the entirety of the Indonesian archipelago. In the 20th century, these islands would form the Republic of Indonesia.

[@spacegerrit9499]

I spit out my tea when you tried to speak Dutch. 10/10 for effort.

[@jaspermay5813]

He made no effort whatsoever.

[@robertneven7563]

I spit out my beer when i reed the creuwl history off the dutch slave traders

[@gorilladisco9108]

The VOC demise was directly caused by American war of independence. The reason American war of independence was a success was the intervention, not just by the French as popularly believed, but also by the Dutch and Spain. With four wars at once, the English was unable to concentrate on one enemy, but the side effect of it also resulted in the destruction of VOC cargo fleet by English, and French financial drain that resulted in revolution later on. Only Spain gained with the war. After the war, VOC was unable to replenish its fleet and soon declared bankruptcy.

[@vitostreng6421]

Alright , enough american bs .... amen to the dutch 👏👏👏

[@gorilladisco9108]

@@vitostreng6421 First, I'm not an American. And second, the comment wasn't about America, but about how England gave fatal blow to VOC, the one which VOC never recovered. American Revolutionary War was but a facet of the larger global war that England had to fight at the time.

[@myyoutubename1756]

Hey vito, stay mad america is the most powerful country. What dirthole are you from?

[@Art-ot2jn]

Sugar and tobacco replaced the appetite of the consumer

[@Art-ot2jn]

Spices lost favor I the Dutch diet I see this in the foods they cook in my family

[@jemoedermeteensnor88]

The answer to the question is kinda missing in the video. Which is by monopolising goods that are in relative high demand. With a quick rise to the top by the invention of the stock exchange in a country that is relativly rich.

[@DenUitvreter]

The stock exchange allowed the VOC to reinvest profit and not pay dividend for the first 31 years, and therefore to grow much bigger than initially planned. But it was only one of the final pieces of the puzzle that marked their invention of modern capitalism. They already were very rich in the 1500's and capitalism and industry made them filthy rich in 1600's through European trade. The VOC or the stock exchange had very little to do with that.

[@jemoedermeteensnor88]

@@DenUitvreter I'm aware of the fact that the VOC (and WIC) contribute little too the Dutch wealth. but the Dutch wealth did help the VOC a lot.

[@ohimats]

Really great video. However I'd like to point out 2 "light" mistakes: -The Merchant's mark of the EIC used in the video is not the correct one. You used the one from the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. A cool design but not historical. The Historical one is a heart with the initials. You can find them in coins and stamps. - In the map of the Netherlands, you kept Flevoland which wouldn't exist in at the time. This is the issue with the dutch who keep adding more land XD. As I said, these are really insignificant issues and your video is really good. Keep up the good work !

[@stijnp1988]

Till this day, 300 years later, as we speak as dutch natives to each other, we use the words “dat is peperduur” that is translated to; “that is pepper expensive”. Fascinating to be honest.

[@FrikErasmus]

And in South Africa "dit is peperduur" 372 years later :) Amazing

[@rotua98]

You guys went to the lenght for spices, but then decide to change taste back to boring bread what a waste 😅

[@balazsbuza7713]

We have it in Hungarian as well that roughly translates to "It has a pepper like cost"

[@kkms2107]

​@@rotua98amazing response. Now spices are available every where at affordable price. Then why only bread. Can experiment with new food varieties.

[@michaelplunkett8059]

He who controls the spice controls the universe. - Frank Herbert

[@dingus6317]

There’s a similar quote about artillery

[@mafia_dave32]

The Spice must flow .

[@jadebunny25]

Harkonnen - Dune

[@NotLikeWhatYouThink]

🤣u'niverse?those spice port country those country king they annoited by God..got governance mark..they the real owner/governor of universe one family the only monarch on earth..other country just commoner try became monarch..self declare king and royal.

[@Scar_tisseu-86]

It's nicely told but you forgot a verry important part at the beginning, the story of privateer piet hein who raided the Spanish silver fleet, that allowed the voc to have the finance to grow the fleet of the voc drastically.

[@gilibruinsma2052]

You mean genocide in order to get a monopoly?

[@kidsebas]

You're highly underrated, keep making this great content and I'm sure you'll be discovered by many

[@2011Matz]

The seas around the Celebes, West New Guinea and Timour as shown here, are some of the most difficult to navigate under sail.

[@jesusbermudez6775]

Thank you for the informative video

[@sergeant_chris6209]

Very underrated channel! Really good quality and interesting subjects

[@nikiindzhiev5369]

This channel deserves so much more exposure!

[@Itsadrianyay]

well, here i am! watching as a new viewer! bless the algorithm

[@dawidsandenbergh6063]

This is amazing!

[@wydvenom]

Love the channel man

[@bob343434354]

Great channel, keep it up

[@Ferrari333SP]

Fascinating stuff

[@flake452]

Great vid.

[@rickintexas1584]

Fascinating history. It is amazing that so much of this narrative was because of Europe’s desire for spices.

[@Insert.name.here8]

Amazing video

[@s.c.scheermeijer8482]

Your map if the Netherlands shows land we didn't create yet in that age.

[@MasSigit88]

Only few people know East India was the old name for Indonesian archipelago

[@ndorobei4391]

We call it East Indies, not India, in our history book. The old name was Nusantara.

[@spacegerrit9499]

Not India, but Indië. Probably cant pronounce it without being Dutch. Today they call Indonesia by it'a proper name. The old generation might call it "The East". It's confusing for foreigners I think.

[@hotman_pt_]

Historically, it was "the indies". There were the west Indies (the caribean) and the east indies, which included basically southeastern asia

[@ab-mf5tt]

Nama resmi setelah kompeni kolaps dalam bahasa Indonesia adalah "Pemerintahan Hindia Belanda", yang mana adalah terjemahan langsung dari bahasa Belanda "Indische". Sebelumnya ya jelas "Nusantara" mulai dari era Majapahit/Kutai Kartanegara.

[@pandorawolf8239]

Fun fact, if by today standards if it would still exist with its market value it would have been richer then Apple, Google, facebook and microsoft combined. 7.9trillion worth.

[@myscure]

not really, i mean they only had 10.000 soldiers and 50.000 personal working for them.. facebook alone has around 120.000 personal working for them.. google has around 300 billion in cash, if they wanted they could purchase 1 million cargo ships.. and the voc had 150

[@nathanaelpratt8797]

@@myscure back than shit was worth more

[@vincentmalasawmkimajongte7489]

​@@myscureThe amount of ships or employees they have is not really related to how much money they make, singapore has a tiny population and has a very tiny land but has a much larger GDP.

[@rogierdieters4391]

Old news😂

[@rogierdieters4391]

​@@myscureyou buy more four 7,9 trillion than four 300 billion bud you can not count

[@nathanraythomas1784]

This is just a practical suggestion. When you dub in the musical pieces, they are a higher volume than the narrator's voice... and very difficult to make out what is being said. View all your videos. Most of the videos are this way. People who are not hearing impaired have no difficulty understanding the narration. The hearing impaired do.

[@ontowiryo4952]

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[@dingskydongsky]

exactly !

[@joostprins3381]

Most older cities in the Netherlands have an “Indische Buurt”, so it’s not something you only see in Amsterdam. Mostly build in the 1920’s 1930’s and have their own distinct architecture.

[@TCGMusic]

I just watched your informative video on the East India Company, and it so happens that we're currently developing a drama series based on The East India Company. We're urgently seeking a knowledgeable consultant to help us ensure some historical accuracy and effectively characterize some key events from the East India Company's history. I couldn't locate your email address on your about page, so I hope you'll respond to this message so we can discuss further. By the way, excellent work on the video; it was truly well done.

[@markknoop6283]

The New Netherlands Institute

[@DenUitvreter]

@@markknoop6283 New Netherlands has nothing to do with the VOC outside Hudson.

[@markknoop6283]

@@DenUitvreter they where trading partners and enemy. They found 16000 letters written in the 17th centery. They communicated whit the English.

[@lovelance__5892]

Koninklijk Instituut van Taal-Land- en Volkenkunde (KITLV) Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen (KIT)

[@Yomabo]

Defragged History here on youtube

[@joostprins3381]

You have forgotten about the “Rampjaar”, Year of Disaster 1672. We were attacked by the British, French and the Germans (Munster) together in a pact. This had a devastating effect on the Netherlands which would take decades to overcome.

[@DenUitvreter]

A few additions/corrections - The VOC didn't replicat the East India Company. The latter was more like a cartel, the VOC was a public stock company, with shares sold through chambers in many cities around the country, collecting it's starting capital from lots of very ordinary people too, as it was also a war entreprise to rob the enemy of it's income it was still fundig sieges of Dutch cities with. - The 80-years war was not a sektarian conflict. It was the Dutch who wanted religious tolerants vs the Spanish catholics who wanted to burn all different protestants and jews at the stake. The Dutch Republic's independence was about the ruler having to serve the people and respect their inalienable rights like freedom of conscience. Practice of catholocism was restricted as a matter of public order, but not outlawed. The state could not interfere with a man's conscience. - The VOC did not rule Indonesia, it only controlled it's seas and only a tiny part of the lands. - The Dutch Republic wasn't eclipsed by the British Empire, only in the very late 18th century the BE took over as the world's biggest trader, with the Dutch remaining a solid 2nd. - Profits and scale are hugely exaggerated. The VOC didn't pay any dividends in the first 31 years of it's operations. Spices were very expensive in the Dutch Republic after the Portuguese had blocked the spice trade and were extremely hard to get. Later on not so much. The 160 merchant ships at it's peak wasn't really that impressive. The Dutch merchant fleet of that time they dominated all European trade with was well over 20.000 (a bit smaller) ships, and even at it's peak it didn't bring in as much money as the good old herring fishery. A VOC ship coming in was a rare event, would draw a crowd, the many daily merchant ships with European bulk not at all, but that was where the real money was.

[@Cecil_Augus]

I'm not sure about this second point though. "The Dutch Republic's independence was about the _ruler having to serve the people_ and respect their inalienable rights like freedom of conscience"? Sounds like something one would learn from school based on a agenda of whitewashing the country/civilization's history. There's none of it in reality in any point of history not even today, imagine hundreds of years ago. First of all rulers never serve the people, that's a myth, if they served the people they wouldn't be rulers, but _ruled_ by the people. The decisions wouldn't come from them. Secondly, what inalienable right are you talking about? There were no human rights back then, and none sense of human liberties that wasn't solemnly crushed again and again by the oligarchies. Freedom of conscience is hundreds of years away as a public concept - its not even part the public's conscience in most of the world, you guys from "developed" (more like filled with plunder) countries forget that the world is still very poor and uneducated, with many even starving for some calories to develop the brains. If you study the movements of capital and the migration of oligarchies you will realize that the Protestant revolution was never about theological issues, but was politics from end to end. Martin worked in collusion with nobles that were interested in toppling the Pope's authority that had grown too big, and wanted to see Europe divided so they could slowly infiltrate its courts and undermine its territories' sovereignty.

[@DenUitvreter]

@@Cecil_Augus We should not confuse protestants who actually protested something like the Dutch protestants with protestants that were declared protestants by the king for reasons of power and 'romance'. Freedom of conscience is codified in the Union of Utrecht of 1579 which came to be the de facto constitution of the Dutch Republic. That would limit one's faith to a matter of public order, not extending to the thought crime it was or people's private homes. Freedom of conscience was the foundation of the Dutch Republic's religious tolerance. The Dutch declaration of independence of 1581 confirmed that, and was indeed a revolutionary document because it claimed natural law, as the origin of the freedoms of the late Middle Ages in the Low Countries, and basically stated/assumed a social contract. It states that a monarch is given a people by god but derives that from that people "and whereas God did not create the people slaves to their prince, to obey his commands, whether right or wrong,....to govern them according to equity, to love and support them as a father his children or a shepherd his flock" In not doing so and oppressing them the monarch (Philips II of Spain) had become a tyrant and therefore was no longer the souvereignty. Through his actions he had left the throne. It was a 'declaratory' declaration rather than a constituting one. It observed the situation form which through natural law followed the consequenties. Because of it's Dutch name, "the act of leaving" it's often wrongly interpreted as that the 7 Netherlands left the Spanish Empire, it actually states that they had seen the king leave by being a tyrant. Conciseness is not one of the qualities of this Act of Abjuration. But the American DOI has copied it's principles, inalienable rights, from god not from the king, the right to fight tyranny and having to serve the people. The main difference is that the Dutch went looking for a new monarch initially, and only became a republic when they couldn't find one, while the Americans 2 centuries later already had the Dutch Republic show that such a complete denial of the divine right of kings did not trigger the wrath of god. Human rights didn't exist in the sense that they were civil rights, with the Charter of Kortenberg from the early 1300's being the most extensive, civil rights for the rich and the poor. So no surprise that the British got their Bill of Rights and constitutional parliamentary monarchy through the Dutch Republic's invasion of 1688 and they brought John Locke too, who accompanied Willem III's wife across the channel, as he lived and wrote his most important works in the freedom of thought and print in the Dutch Republic and no doubt being inspired by what he saw around him. Just like Descartes btw, who even served in the Dutch army before he did his reading and writing there. Most of the lter enlightenment philosophers had their works printed in the Dutch Republic too. Modern ideas started somewhere, and it was in Flanders and Brabant from which it was taken to Holland and the pressure cooker that was the Dutch Republic where there was already a strong humanistic tradition. The Dutch Republic showed different views on the universality of people's rights, but with the 'all people are children of god' protestants it certainly wasn't lacking alltogether. It was compromised on, they grew hypocrite about it, rather than denying it rightaway. Of course there was always politics, but in this part of Europe protestantism and religious tolerance didn't come top down but from the grassroots.

[@bigboyxxxXxxx]

@@Cecil_Auguswhere are you from?

[@bigboyxxxXxxx]

@@DenUitvreterid like to have a cup of coffee with you!

[@1ppol1to]

@@DenUitvreterhoe durft u dit soort onzin uit te kramen, terwijl u de naam van de Uitvreter draagt. Dit is heiligschennis.

[@kris7968]

Nice

[@VersusARCH]

The spice must flow!

[@ver93]

the map shows a modern map with the reclaimed land it didn't look like that back then since there were less reclaimed land

[@piusokwu3560]

Maps of the old Netherlands is not not on the software used to creat these maps. That's my guess

[@richardmalumbot4015]

lack of information in how the local Kingdoms in Indonesia being loss wars to VOC and made batavia and banten as the capital point of their voyages in Asia, it should stated that the contribution of ancient economy in local kingdoms in Indonesia to the richness of vampires VOC

[@luismanueldasilvacesar6459]

And Nagasaki, was the Portuguese port, that's why the existing christian of there" // Portuguese Nagasaki and Ecclesiastical Nagasaki refer to the period during which the city of Nagasaki was under foreign administration, between the years of 1580 and 1587. Formally granted to the Jesuits, a representative of the Portuguese Crown was considered the highest authority in the city when present, as per Portuguese rights of Padroado. The first Portuguese (and incidentally, Western) landfall on Japanese soil appears to have been in 1543, after a group of Portuguese merchants travelling aboard a trade "junk, is a Chinese ship" towards China were blown off course to the island of Tanegashima.

[@swaffelkonijn5166]

Top effort, however the Dutch did not simply copy the model of the East India Company. In the counties of Holland and Zealand there was a bit of a tradition to spread the costs of developing waterworks and land reclamation projects zo doing the same to start the VOC would have been quite natural for them.

[@franciscobriz2830]

You lost me at “The Portuguese JEALOUSLY guarded their navigational knowledge” 😂

[@adhiezulfikar]

Wowww interesting to know that Jakarta and New York were somehow have similar history influences by VOC 🤣

[@Brevicauda]

Well, it's nice to watched the history of VoC from another perspective excluding Daendels and his controversial Heerendiensten. Besides my great-granny would laugh if I told her that VoC is a trader 😂

[@remcohoman1011]

9:44 ...and Tasmania... why is this never mentioned?

[@alexbroere2669]

As a Dutchman I'm always amazed at what the Dutch did in the times of VOC or WIC. Not all positive but just amazing without any modern guidance and so many risks. ❤

[@BCNpod]

I agree. These days, the citizens of the Netherlands exhibit diverse characteristics in terms of ethnicity, physique, and stature. Dutch citizens are currently advocating for increased border control, a decrease in the number of expatriates, and a reduction in the presence of international corporations. Eventually, many Dutch individuals choose to retire in Spain or Asia. Times have truly changed.

[@halfdome4158]

The Dutch West India Company settled New York and New Jersey. Magnificent people and a huge influence in the founding and settling of our country.❤

[@anthonyburke5656]

Easy answer, huge markups

[@latipharley2176]

Dutch People arrive at Banten Indonesia on June 1596

[@kas3829]

Thats is my county you can find the streets in Utrecht -> netherlands

[@ndorobei4391]

Dutch East Indies, not India. It is Indonesia today.

[@lateupload]

i'm glad until now my country indonesia Have A lot Of Nutmeg , I hope that in the future there will be an Indonesian president who will present a box of nutmeg to the Dutch government and kingdom, with a box that says IOC (Indonesië Oostindische Compagnie) 😂😂😜😜🤣🤣🙏🙏

[@luismanueldasilvacesar6459]

You very briefly describe the adventure in Malukan islands...and forget to mention the Portuguese in the area and the war with us. Main articles: Dutch East India Company, Dutch East Indies, and Dutch-Portuguese War "quote from Wikipedia" // en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maluku_Islands The Dutch arrived in 1599 and competed with the Portuguese in the area for trade.[19] The Dutch East India Company in course of Dutch-Portuguese War allied with the Sultan of Ternate and conquered Ambon and Tidore in 1605, expelling the Portuguese. A Spanish counterattack from the Philippines restored Iberian rule in parts of North Maluku up to 1663. However, the Dutch monopolized the production and trade in spices through a ruthless policy. This included the genocidal conquest of the nutmeg-producing Banda Islands in 1621, the elimination of the English in Ambon in 1623, and the subordination of Ternate and Tidore in the 1650s. An anticolonial resistance movement led by a Tidore prince, the Nuku Rebellion, engulfed large parts of Maluku and Papua in 1780-1810 and co-opted the British. During the French Revolutionary Wars and again in the Napoleonic Wars, British forces captured the islands in 1796-1801 and 1810, respectively, and held them until 1817. In that time they uprooted many of the spice trees for transplantation throughout the British Empire.[20]

[@NuncEstBibendumX]

The people of the Malukan Islands (or as we know it in Dutch, de Molukken) deserve a special mention. One of the biggest losers of the Dutch conquest of Indonesia. Thrown out by their neighbours for staying loyal with us but denied proper recognision by the Dutch state and people.

[@birdie3189]

De houtman did not have war with banten, they reach madura and bali, they got the pepper from Bali.

[@Sindrewino]

In some parts of the video, i'm feeling he is describing the plot of Dune

[@beaudenoir]

You know, I think the VOC inspired the Dune merchant guild (the CHOAM) and the Dutch navigators the real-life Guild Navigators of the Spacing Guild. Also the Dune slogan "He who controls the spice controls the universe." - and VOC collected spices.

[@eddymack8568]

What did the Dutch trade for the spices? Money or some other product the islands didn't have?

[@darrenlesueur4785]

opium.

[@Pieceoreece]

4:32 he looks like a Van Neck.

[@Brevicauda]

Growing up Indonesian, I didn't learn much about the world history instead we were taught about VOC until I was sick of it 😂 I don't want to study them anymore!! But here I am unable to free myself from it 😢

[@djmutzang8242]

Your ancestors traveled 7000 miles away to our land for spices, which ended europeans nowadays only taking salt and pepper. That’s even too spicy

[@indonesianchinese5724]

Thanks to Indonesia

[@mjbrentcanon4499]

The richest living stock market was rebuild in Indonesia called the VOC was the only most valuable company provided it's annual worth about 7.9 trillion and there's nothing compare to other modern company and almost twice 2× the GDP of germany and insignificant key of it's roles is marine time trading with other empires and many more the dutch ever did in history🇳🇱

[@wayneanderson8034]

Columbus wasn't looking to prove the world was round, everyone knew that a 1,000 years before. He was looking to buy spices, from the growers. They are in Indonesia. If he had found Indonesia sailing west, ge would have been fabulously rich, & the king & queen too. Not wanting to return empty handed, he returned with slaves. And that starts a whole nother story of economics. The middle men in spices made them tremendously expensive. Cut out all the middle men, & you are rich beyond words.

[@eddyr1041]

The first words in business... business enterprise..... was coined... Then later there is more like standard oil... lots of british company etc😊... Political wconomic science grown from here

[@PRO-K123]

Coen is forth governor of VOC

[@dmblast5796]

THEY KILLLED EVERYTHING XD.

[@protectorh9167]

No we forgot you

[@Jewish.Hotdog]

Prigozhin proved the dreams not dead, VOC proved how far u can go😂

[@land_crock1463]

Ada indonesia cuy 🥶🥶🥶🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩

[@rakhmaddarmawan9836]

Membicarakan indonesia yg sekarang sedang diserang uni eropa secara sembunyi agar tetap dijajah secara ekonominya, karenanya presiden jokowi begitu marah dengan sikap uni eropa yg selalu menginginkan indonesia jadi negara terbelakang, dulu karena rempah terutama pala, sekarang mineral terutama nikel.

[@stefke5862]

Imagine the Turks blocking the silk road and within 50 years after they sacked Constantinople the first Portugese ship found its way to India kicking off the world wide colonization period. Some butterfly effect

[@danlhendl]

Its eirher due to great fiscal responsibility or plucky good luck

[@zaktasss]

VoC- Verenigde Oost-Indisch Compagnie

[@svihl666]

15:28 / 15:44

[@Lislio]

bruh that pronunciation of the dutch lmao

[@FGPR01BrunoCauz]

The Spanish Empire was not a colonial empire such as the English, French or Dutch, but on the contrary, it was the last empire of the ancient type, closer to what Rome or Greece were. 300-400 years of domain based on miscegenation, alphabetization and conversion of different peoples; construction of universities, cathedrals and cities worldwide; a huge cultural and artistic explotion; deliberation of new phylisophic, teologic and juridic debates in human history (like f.e., if all humans were equal); discoverments that changed the conception of the world; opening of new shipping routes; creation of an undefeated infantry for 2 centuries; expansion of the Hispanic culture throughout the Atlantic and Pacific ocean (called "the spanish lake" at that time) as Rome did throughout the Mediterranean... All of this, in a world as big as the one we know today, but using a technology from 5 centuries ago. From there onward, european empires had a colonial model based on mercantilism, slavery, and large-scale production, creating factories or plantations in overseas possessions, instead of a civilizing reproduction of their society. The former were a global market, the latter a global kingdom. European empires shouldnt be generalized by the fact of having overseas territories, because not all of them were the same.

[@DenUitvreter]

The Dutch Empire was not like the English and French either. "Empire is too expensive". The Dutch build far more ships but had far less people and far less poor people. They didn't have the man power to rule many foreign peoples even if they had desired to, which they didn't.

[@YOJO391]

Knights Templar were the first multinational corporation:/

[@45pints87]

14:36 Ireland is NOT part of Britain never was

[@reinforced9084]

Yes it was…?

[@banishedvideos1014]

This Video is pretty goood at giving an overview of the period but is SO SO European focused and talks little or not at all about the colonization of the time period and the fact that these goods werent traded or collected fairly but extracted through local populations and the the use of slaves. The Dutch invaded and subjugated these people, japan was opened to trade forcefully as was China. yet no mention of White colonialism or violence against locals. sad to see it all swept under the rug.

[@banishedvideos1014]

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[@trismica]

ok

[@royalsteven]

Indonesians dont seem mad no more, Netherlands has 349,301 living here and they enjoy from our rich economy also.

[@cisujegas1455]

Voc riccest from indonesia😂😂

[@tieskehurkmans39]

The province Flevoland didn’t exist by then. It’s been drained quite recently, your map isn’t correct

[@serigala11]

After fall of Constantinople European losting spisy soucer from asia.. By the way they have not navigator cross the sea.. And than arabic navigator drive those cross the sea..

[@Cecil_Augus]

The whole introduction of your video was the first paragraph of this Wikipedia page: "/en/First_Dutch_Expedition_to_East_Indies" The video was excellent, though. The only criticism I have is that: never rely on Wikipedia to get information. As a source for rough overviews and general ideas is OK, but to derive entire knowledge sets from it is just too risky. People don't realize that Wikipedia can be easily manipulated by people with access to servers and protocols to constantly edit its pages - there's no admin able to handle such situations. And its not something that hard to do. One example of this is the page of the Catholic Church that counts the history of the Church about its own founding, nothing impartial, nothing scientific, it actually says Jesus Christ founded the church. Its just sad. In my opinion Wikipedia is a cancer to knowledge, and alarms me a lot how many people derive its information from there and how many duplicate sites there are that just ctrl+c, ctrl+v from there.

[@adhiezulfikar]

Wait what VOC only there for 200years? How come my history teacher taught me that they colonized Indonesia for 300 years then 🤣 What happened from 1800-1900 ? Can someone explain to me?

[@misterblackpepperswag]

VOC sesudah bangkrut, diserap oleh kerajaan Belanda, dan bekas koloni VOC diambil alih oleh kerajaan Belanda. Lalu koloni berlanjut sampai 150 tahun.

[@gilibruinsma2052]

Pirates

[@eternalthor4967]

Do you consider the US an Empire ? How powerful is the US at its peak compared to Britain at its peak?

[@denzelklarenaar5883]

Clearly no, Definitions of an empire: 1. ❌ an extensive group of states or countries ruled over by a single monarch, an oligarchy, or a sovereign state. 2. ❌ An empire is an aggregate of many separate states or territories under a supreme ruler. Although many states is vague, the British empire for example covered 1/4 of the entire worlds’ landmass. The US is just way too small for that.

[@hotman_pt_]

​@@denzelklarenaar5883 the US isn't small by any means to be called empire, neither size is a prerequisite to be called one. An Empire is a title, as simple as that. USA isn't an empire because it doesn't have an emperor neither they call themselves one

[@banishedvideos1014]

@@denzelklarenaar5883 what about Panama, Hawaii and other US colonies, youve overturned and made so many puppets in S.America, only recently lost your colony of Cuba.

[@TheWizardGamez]

The US I think did briefly have claim to the empire title, when we expanded over the pacific. But after WW2… I don’t think so. Primacy doesn’t equal brutality. And I feel lil all empires are brutal. We backed out of multiple wars we could’ve won.

[@Neockoen]

The US isn’t an empire by definition. It also doesn’t come close to the empires in the age of sail, especially the British or Spanish empire

[@bangujangID]

Welcome to Indonesia stealer

[@unpataunpata]

Opium

[@harrysollmer1644]

Bs

[@St.petersEye]

Hope they pay for there crimes 😂

[@zimbabwexx1589]

First

[@4chukwuebuka]

The Jews

[@peterdevalk7929]

Bull SHIT!

[@user-cc8nc5iu1s]

This

[@licomelano8482]

Why sugar coat VOC most profitable trade. slave

[@Blackadder75]

because it wasn't? the slave trade was mostly ANOTHER Dutch company, the Dutch West India Company (WIC) the VOC did not ship Africans to the East.

[@AR-bh3mn]

Dutch with Indonesia : 💪💰💰💰🔥 Dutch Without Indonesia : 😓💀 Indonesia's independence occurred because of discrimination that occurred for 350 years....... If only at the beginning of Colonization, the Dutch had treated their colonies as well as the Antilles Islands, by now the Netherlands might have become a superpower in Europe (stronger than Germany) 🙂

[@lieberfreialsgleich]

It wasn`t really Dutch, rather jewish!

[@andriers1]

Based on wat evidence, that company was Protestant to the core. Dutch religious institutions allowed the Dutch to open banks and trade with money and they even invented stocks in that period.

[@bjornr1120]

Lieber, i guess you did grow up in usa.. 😂

[@johnyossarian9059]

I wonder why the video doesn't talk about the genocide of the Bandanese people of the Banda Islands of today's eastern Indonesia. The Banda archipelago was the only place in the world, at that time, where nutmeg plants were found. Nutmeg was one of the most valuable spices back then. The Dutch wanted the Bandanese to sell nutmeg only to them. The Bandanese refused. This resulted in the genocide of the Bandanese.

[@DenUitvreter]

It was not a genocide. It was a massacre of 1200 men followed by ethnic cleansing of the island by shipping the people out so to not have a rebelling society there. It was in retailliation of the slaughter of a Dutch expedition by the Bandanese years before, when they double crossed the Dutch and trapped them.

[@spacegerrit9499]

@@DenUitvreterOh please.. We really, really wanted that Nutmeg. Coen was a maniac, and lot's of VOC sailors wrote letters home what a complete maniac he was and how "Unchristian" he was and how "this has nothing to do with trading anymore". He was a man who burned entire villages because an oil lamp in his hut fell on the floor and he blamed it on local witchcraft. ("tovenarij") He saw a Casus Belli in everything. Contemporary sources called him a maniac all the time. It is well known how those island were brutalised, and the main reason was a monopoly on the Nutmeg trade. Which was the sole reason we were there in the first place. It's true the locals refused and Coen brutalised them. When the sailors at the time, who went trough a lot in those days, are complaining about their commander being way too brutal to the locals, maybe somethings up. To the shock of many of his men he hired Samurai and just send them into villages to kill every man, woman and child. The Republic back home felt the VOC went waaay to far in it's brutality when those letters were discussed (contrary to populair belief the VOC in it's hayday wasn't that brutal, but honestly sought coöperation and trade. That changed though), but the VOC being a seperate entitiy made it difficult to control.. Plus control of the Nutmeg trade was kinda nice...

[@DenUitvreter]

@@spacegerrit9499 If you want to go by the primary sources and not have those overruled by secondary sources and estimates, its not a genocide. He was a zealot believing he was doing god's work and got indeed told off by the board, which was also very happy with his results. Genocide is not a superlative of colonial crime or massacre. Young men from all over Europe joined the Dutch merchant fleet and also the VOC. They were going on merchant ships that were going to do trade, they didn't expect to witness war crimes. What happened before by the Bandanese wasn't very pretty either, and in general the retalliation wasn't something the Spanish, Portuguese, British, French or Arabas would have raised an eyebrow about, but the Dutch had a higher opinion of themselves and a better reputation, as traders. You are actually not countering anything I wrote. I'm just not joining the trend to express one's disgust about what happened by exaggerating it and using the wrong words to describe it. I don't feel the slightest urge to show people how I feel about what Coen did. We are all grown ups, we can all assume eachtother not to condone cruelties, this is about what happened there and not about me having to make sure you all know how I feel about it.

[@WhoStoleMyAlias]

@@spacegerrit9499 Cherry picking. British responded the same in 1946 when Indonesian nationalists murdered one of their high ranking officers who came onto the island for piece talks. They didn't actually succeed in levelling the whole of Surabaya though and in Indonesian schools the battle is now celebrated as a major victory on the Dutch who are told to have given the order. Just to show you how history lessons are corrupted for spreading political views.

[@ab-mf5tt]

Because this channel is spouting Dutch narrative/propaganda which is forged on top of stacks of lies which only leads to confusions and holes. Obviously.

[@drpepper3838]

Gekoloniseerd

[@user-lr6hw4dq4t]

kokosnotenzijngeensperijen 😂😂

[@user-xj2ly7oj9x]

The Catholic Church is the richest company in the world....

[@cornhoolio6456]

Ever heard of the Jews?

[@jamestfishertweety8534]

i gonna hazard a guess, slavery piracy theft murder. this story is pretty much the same now.

[@bavelnaard]

The format never changed that much

[@tjerkblom9730]

I want to put a reminder that this profit was done through things like forced labour and slavery. The high amount of money gained was at the expanse of human live.

[@protexroofing5939]

It always is...

[@gundarvarr1024]

Its the Dutch who unified Indonesia. If not, all this islands will have their own President by now

[@alexciocca4451]

I’ll tell you how by stealing debauchery lying and brutality not nice

[@miquelr2353]

I dont think you pronounced a single dutch name correctly 😂

[@mattbphotograph8973]

Jesus of Nazareth, The Messiah, died for the remission of sin, including yours, was buried and rose from the dead on the third day, and whoever believes on him has everlasting life in heaven. Jesus himself said in John 6:47 "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life."

[@alyanton2157]

the Dutch East india are owner are Jewish investors 🤑 they do not have problems colonial colonialism behaviors racism's lord's.

[@wenyicvs]

Indonesia has no fond memories of Dutch anything.

[@prettypurple7175]

British and Dutch Chartered Companies Tony Webster LAST REVIEWED: 11 OCTOBER 2019 LAST MODIFIED: 25 MAY 2011 DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199730414-0099 Introduction Chartered companies were commercial organizations that enjoyed special privileges granted by the state, usually encapsulated in a royal charter. Most were created by merchants in Europe between the 16th and 19th centuries, in England, Scotland, the Dutch Republic, Spain, Portugal, France, and elsewhere. Most chartered companies were formed by investors seeking to exploit commercial opportunities in a particular branch of trade, frequently with a specific part of the world. This latter phenomenon reflected the growth of European commerce with Africa, the Americas, and Asia from the 16th century onward, and many chartered companies specialized in trade and other economic activities in these parts of the world. In many cases, the close relationships between the companies and the states that granted their charters reflected prevailing intellectual notions in the period from the 16th through 18th centuries about the nature of economic activity and state power. In essence, these postulated that global wealth and resources were finite and that the power of states depended upon their ability to control as much of the world’s trade and resources as possible. These ideas are summarized by the term “mercantilism,” and company charters created in this period were frequently intended to help state acquisition and control over trade and resources at the expense of rival powers. In general, monopolies over particular branches of commerce (such as the English East India Company’s monopoly of trade with India and Asia) were granted, and consequently chartered companies became organs of imperial expansion and control. This feature of chartered companies outlasted the era of mercantilism, with later chartered companies, such as the British South Africa Company of the late 19th century, being created with a specific remit for the promotion of imperial interests. Leading investors and managers of chartered companies acquired considerable political influence with the states that granted the charters. In some instances this arose because of the importance of the chartered company in supplying loan finance to governments (e.g., the English East India Company in the 17th and early 18th centuries), in others because of the importance of the company in facilitating the extraction of essential resources or revenues from overseas colonies. Thus chartered companies were political and imperial entities as well as commercial organizations

[@shubhampandey9497]

I wonder why the richest company had name INDIA attached to their name 🇮🇳❤

[@Neockoen]

It didn’t though lol. Vereenigte Oost-Indische Compagnie, where it refers to Indië, not India. Indië, or Nederlands-Indië was the Dutch name for Indonesia. It had exactly nothing to do with India

[@drinkme6803]

@@Neockoen Love me Indonesia. Simple as.