What If The Dutch Empire Reunited Today

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[General Knowledge]

Which other empires could I do this for?

[Noodle Doodle]

General Knowledge Portugal, Spain and Britain (but I’m pretty sure you’ve done most of them

[Polish Onion]

maybe German? Russian? (dunno if you did any of them but it's just an idea)

[Ultimate77yt]

German Colonial empire?

[~ Peasie Writes ~]

german and british.

[Bopiaco]

1st Mexican empire?

[Devon deBorst]

The Dutch Empire is like that kid that takes a bite out of everything but never completely eats it

[4th Milky Way Empire]

Devon deBorst lol so true

[Johan Anwar]

they do it in Indonesia

[Pekroler]

trueee u made me laugh

[Pekroler]

@Johan Anwar indonisia is only country taken all

[gilbert loui]

@Pekroler No, dutch didn't took buton empire and east timor (portuguese) in the past. Also dutch never reach the center of borneo, the location of dayak's tribe

[EpicAglet]

"The Dutch ruled the cape colony briefly before losing it to the British." You consider 150 years of Dutch rule, brief? That's about as long as the Brits ruled it. They only lost it because Napoleon occupied the Netherlands

[Gabriel]

They didn't lost it because Napoleon occupied the Netherlands. It wasn't Napoleon who took the colony away, it was the British. Napoleon occupying the Netherlands was simply the excuse they used to do so.

[Max H]

@Gabriel 🤡

[Vincent van de Wouw]

@Gabriel Then we can say that Spanish occupation of Portugal was not the reason that the Dutch took control over the Asian spiceroute, it was only the Dutch beating them and they used Spanish occupation as an excuse.

[Gabriel]

@Vincent van de Wouw Yes, of course you can say that. And you should. That's what happened. Am I supposed to disagree? The Spanish didn't take the colonies away, the Dutch did, because they were at war with the Spanish, and Portugal and Spain were in a personal union, so they didn't want the Portuguese wealth to fund the Spanish war effort. It's a very similar situation in fact.

[João Pedro !]

I'm from northeast Brazil the area the was in Dutch control for a while. A fun fact is that during Dutch rule they allowed the jewish religion here and many of the first portuguese settlers in this region were in fact sephardi jews (iberian jews) that were escaping inquisiton so they were allowed to build the first synagogue of the americas but after the portuguese retook the control those people had to convert to catholicism again but till this day many aspects of jewish culture can be found there and most people don't even realize that. For exemple would wash a corpse and bury them without a coffin among other things. Some of them left with the dutch and founded New York.

[Lynott Parris]

@nee hee They did care about religion a lot. They fought Spain for 80 years to protect protestantism from catholic rule. The whole colonization started because of the fight for religion. Difference is that both protestants and catholics had decided on freedom of religion in 1579, allthoug not to be confused with equality of religion. Protestantism was the official state religion and catholicism was kept on a leash. Because of that and the nature of the state regilion, they weren't interested in forced conversion and weren't interested in ruling anyway. It also would have been impractical to teach everyone to learn to read and write, in Dutch, so they could read the official Dutch state bible, because that's what conversion would have meant. And if would be bad for trade of course. The jews were no threat to protestantism at all so they could practice their religion in any way they wanted, unlike the catholics who often had to keep a low profile. They also felt connected as they viewed themselves as the new (testament) chosen people. They believed empire was too expensive and simply lacked the manpower, mostly due to the fact that life in the Dutch Republic itself was very good. Often half of the crews of ships and population in the settlements would be foreign. Danes, Ests, Lets, Swedes, Germans and walloons, but also Mediterranean, African and Asian with their own beliefs. So even if they had wanted to it would lt would have been impossible in the multicultural trade empire they ran.

[João V. M. Oliveira]

@nee hee I think you need to get your facts straight. The Dutch were responsible for the Cunhaú and Uruaçú massacres in Brazil. Basically it was a Protestant killing of Catholic colonist for the sake of religion (!). It was also the reason why the Portuguese had to intervene and managed to get rid of them. Also, slave trade run HUGE in the dutch colonies in Brazil and were pretty much the reason for much of its economic prosperity. They pretty much loaned money to the senhores de engenho for profits, traded slaves and parasited other peoples' work without doing much in exchange.

[João V. M. Oliveira]

Part of the problem of Dutch and Portuguese colonisation was that since they had to enslave and kill in other to prosper, the New World was basically a place where moral laws were suspended ad hoc. Once they returned to Europe they had to act accordingly. At the end of the day they lived (for most of the time) a life that was worse or similar to that of the natives in pre-Columbian times. There was indeed very little civilization effort, and a hell lot of greed and evil going on. Northeast Brazil of today is a compound of this multilayered, multi-century tragedy.

[Lynott Parris]

@João V. M. Oliveira That's probably right for the Portugals but not for the Dutch. The Dutch didn't enslave local people, or other people than the children of slaves, they bought slaves and shipped them in. The Dutch governer of Brazil was extremely enlightened for his time and fell madly in love with Brazil. He created a multicultural, mutlireligious, multiracial society there and described the natives that were converted to calvinism as the true Brazilian, and he even wanted to build a university, which was of course frowned upon by the board of the WIC who were in it for the war against Spain and the money. The bitter irony of it is that this enlightened man was also the one that got the Dutch into slavery. With Dutch Brazil beeing taken from the Portugese it was a plantation economy and he complained to the board he couldn't run it without slaves. With the rise of the importance of sugar and tobacco Dutch theologists were in the process of finding a biblical excuse for slavery, which under economic and military pressure they did. The board of the WIC approved in 1638 if I remember correctly under the condition that the slaves had to be educated in christianity and would be free after 7 years. So they set sail to Africa and captured Elmina from the Portugese, only the end up as mainly slavetraders after the loss of Brazil and New Amsterdam becoming New York. That was actually quite typical for the WIC, it was always torn between high ideals and dirty wars, between big plans and small minded frugality. They never really knew what to do, privateering Spanish and Portuguese ships was worth it especially to rob the Spanish from silver to pay the war against the Dutch Republic with, but it was very irregular business. The idea of creating big agricultural settlements full of calvinists didn't work because life was too good in the Dutch Republic itself so hardly anyone was interested. The resulting multicultural, multireligious societies lacked loyalty and the WIC was too cheap to keep them defended well enough. They never managed to be big in the plantation economies because they were late to the party because of the calvinistic objections to slavery that were unique to the Dutch Republic in it's first 50 years of existence.

[João]

@João V. M. Oliveira as a brazilian, thank you for these comments

[Rugzakker Reizen]

Imagine if the Netherlands had not given up ‘New Netherland’ (with New York aka New Amsterdam) in the Treaty of Breda after the Second Anglo Dutch war. The whole history of the United States would have probably been a lot different.

[kevin d]

Nah it wasn't really a choice lol. It was either giving it up and getting Suriname or losing it without getting anything since the English army was way stronger.

[Teun vd keur]

@kevin d the Dutch didn’t like it bcs it was far away and they had a deal where they would get a big territory which was way better

[Floris]

For a starter, no USA civil war because the each province in the Netherlands is allowed a large degree of independence for things like taxes. This means that it is likely The Netherlands would still rule New Netherlands. This means that due to a much bigger military (among others) presence in the Netherlands and present day Belgium and Luxembourg which would have made it impossible for Hitler to occupy Europe. So basically when someone asks you how you would stop WWII or change most of the history since ~1850 you can just answer: "no treaty of Breda"

[Floris]

@kevin d because of a number of stupid things the Dutch royal family did. If you want to know what they did react on this comment.

[Aedion]

@Floris lol every point you said makes no sense what so ever. Ofcourse there would be a civil war since the Thirteen colonies or Twelve in that timeline would want independance eventually, which would lead to them Manifesting Destiny and wanting to annex New Netherland. Yes it's called that not with the s. Ofcourse Hitler would still have steamrolled Europe.

[The other Tony Dutch]

Imagine if the dutch colonized Australia. Also, Tasmania is still named after a dutch guy: Abel Tasman was from Groningen, one of the northern provinces of the Netherlands.

[Pp Vk]

Well being born and raised in Arnhem... Like to point out 👉 Arnhemland, Australia

[Ahsanur R]

New Zealand is also named after the dutch province.

[Salt-Mine Boss]

*The day the Dutch find out you can grow spices in space*.... Every alien: Why do I smell stroopwafel en gebakken peren?

[Safouane chahbari]

as a Dutch person I liked this

[ThaChairMan]

The dutch: Hold my Stroopwafel. Every alien: Why do i hear boss music?

[Hentjim]

This was a good one, made me laugh, thank you

[Salt-Mine Boss]

​@Arie Dutch: Aliens, we want to buy your whitewidow. Aliens: *Hands over mourning white woman* Dutch: And 6 feet rolling paper/blowtorch I guess.....

[Salt-Mine Boss]

Stan110 Naast het inpolderen van Engeland (Aside from turning the Brits into a polder) is de cosmos inderdaad ook gratis vastgoed. Maan polder, Mars polder, de Pluto-plantage. Bepoldering en beschaving is een deugt die met iedere wereldburger/alien-slaaf gedeeld moet worden (Polders and civilisation are a commodity to be shared with every world civilian and their alien slaves). I"ve been dreaming of an Imperial Ultra-capitalist Neo-Dutch space-fleet since I was a kid. In de naam van Willem Van oranje!!

[Tristan van steen]

As a cicizen of the Western Cape from South Africa I would be happy for the dutch to take us back

[Thomas]

What happens in the western cape

[Tristan van steen]

@Thomas an absalot power struggle between this province and the rest

[Tristan D.]

Are Flemish people also welcome?

[Bananaman]

yes we will you give stroopwafels😉

[Z M]

I wouldn’t

[dutchdude1985]

Being a dutchman i couldn't resist. The narration was surprisingly unbiased and quite realistic for such a huge "what if?" i have to admit i'm really impressed. That being said i'm even more surprised by the amount of voice in the comments saying they would quite like to be taken back under Dutch rule...wow.

[Mr Bond]

like the people in the Congo want the Belgians back to rule because (they say) much less coruption, salary paid on time better school system... to name a few

[Off Road Guy]

@Mr Bondwhat about amputations?

[silentium est aurum]

I was expecting a more glorifying narration, but the video was very factual. As a dutch hobby historian you have my compliments!

[Ps1 Hagrid]

You basically missed the whole country of new-Zeeland which name comes from the Dutch province Zeeland

[Marcel75432]

Perhaps do your homework before mentioning something: The Dutch were the first Europeans to visit, but the Maoris weren't friendly and killed some Dutch folk and so years later the English came and did establish a colony.

[Ps1 Hagrid]

@Marcel75432 I know but the name is Dutch he could have mentioned it

[Ps1 Hagrid]

@The Pumpkinman eens

[Ilja punt]

XD dat is een goeie (thats an good one)

[Frederick the Great]

Do you guys think it would've been possible for the Dutch Empire to exist through the Napoleonic Wars?

[Giulia Valle]

Love your videos !!!! As an Italian person, I can say even nowadays Italian People relate a lot to the Regions where they come from, rather than the nation itself. It would be interesting to watch a video of the Italian peninsula as a place with different countries, like Italy before unification :)

[Dacian _]

The Netherlands was never considered Central Europe, It’s just western...

[Roy Jansen]

I paused and looked for this commentaar.

[้]

The Netherlands are not western lol

[Dacian _]

@้ hmm they definitely are 😂

[Geert]

@้ The UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, Luxembourg, France and Germany are all considered Western

[Gattz]

@Geert Germany is central

[Alex S.]

The Dutch empire would actually be even bigger. If they controlled Belgium, they would also have control over their colonies (Kongo etc).

[Alex S.]

JustJian This is just hypothetical. With such an empire, history would have changed completely... Also he pointed in the video out that all those colonies never existed at the same time. So no need to say something is right or wrong. It is just a hypothesis.

[WHO]

Other colonial powers would split congo if belgium never got independence

[HarJBeRw]

JustJian I mean, while I agree that the Congo likely would never have been colonized by a united Belgium/Netherlands, the reasons you're giving are absolute rubbish... First of all, Wallonia never belonged to France (except for a short while during the Npoleonic Wars, but so did Flanders and half of Europe). Quite the OPPOSITE, for centuries, the county of flanders was a part of the Kingdom of France, whereas Wallonia was always incorporated into the HRE as various duchies/principalities/etc. Secondly, I don't know why you keep singling out Flanders in the Belgian colonization effort when it was a primarily a Walloon endeavour at that point. This is because while Wallonia was an industrial powerhouse at the time, and held most of the country's economic and political power, Flanders was overwhelmingly agrarian and poor.

[Alex S.]

@WHO Yeah maybe, we don't know... But this was just an hypothesis about the biggest possible extend

[HarJBeRw]

JustJian lol, have you even read my comment? I said i agree that belgian colonies wouldn't have existed in such a scenario, my issue was with your entire line of reasoning. And jeez, I'm well aware of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands hahahaha, no need to link a wiki page - again, I never said Flanders wasn't a part of it, YOU said WALLONIA was a part of france - THAT was wrong edit: also just realized that you're implying that Wallonia wasn't in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, which is wrong too lol

[nathatos]

If you want to know more information about the Brazilian region today, dominated by the Dutch in the past, research about the Northeast Region of Brazil (with the exception of Bahia), but mainly Pernanbuco. There are also other recent small towns in the south colonized by Dutch Catholics, such as Holambra and Holambra II

[Freaking Emu]

2:53 “briefly” the Dutch held the cape for almost 200 years

[jamie silaban]

Hold my beer Nearly 350 years in Indonesia

[Superbeltman]

@jamie silaban hold my beer Amsterdam

[Frederike Dengah]

@jamie silaban let me finish the whole barrel for you bruh.. 3 1/2 cent. with all its borrowed language and customs + political + law + military systems. and the flag is basically dutch but the blue one got torn bcause the indonesian dont apply monarchy system in their society until now

[Frederike Dengah]

@Superbeltman should be cheers broer 🤣

[Startingbark035]

The dutch farmers tried to defend it

[Ysin van Gulik]

With Belgium included we would have an awesome international soccer team

[Ilhamdi Hafiz]

If reunited today? Dutch would probably get a severe headache from her largest colony.

[ReaperCH90]

michi hofer i don't see that happening

[Peeking Asian]

michi hofer wkekwkwk NGIMPI

[Max Visser]

No, we would get access to amazing food ;)

[Milan Das]

@Xander what country is in poor state?

[Damascus]

As someone who was born and raised in New Amsterdam, I am all for this.

[robbin smeekes]

You must be very old🤣

[Connor]

This was really interesting, I’d love to see you make these videos for other empires such as the british

[freudsigmund72]

Sounds to me like a good plan. Let's start with the Dutch America's and expand from there. I'm all for it.

[FictionQueen]

That would be such a culture shock for the current inhabitants.

[freudsigmund72]

@FictionQueen The way things are going right now, it can only be an improvement.

[Zetos]

@freudsigmund72 indeed

[freudsigmund72]

Maggiee The Dutch back then is a different people than the Dutch now... it is even a new country (founded in 1812)

[KingThomasVII]

When a country has spices Netherlands: I'll TAKE YOUR ENTIRE STOCK!

[Jesse]

"You heard what i said, *take, not buy!!!!"

[Kekke Wezel]

The Netherlands: IS THERE A DISCOUNT FOR THESE SPICES any country: n- The Netherlands: THERE IS A DISCOUNT!!!!!! any country: THERE US NO DISCOUNT! the Netherlands: **aims musket**

[Off Road Guy]

Their food must have been terribly bland.

[user]

Porr countries: ima head out

[Maarten J. Vermeulen]

On the map you have missed out completely about Spitsbergen in the north where Dutch whalers were present. The Dutch mapped the main part of Australia and New Zealand which you do address, but there where Dutch who got shipwrecked on the west coast of Australia (initially called Nova Hollandia or New Holland) survived and mixed with the aboriginals, most people don't know this. Further you missed the green dot at Ayutthaya in nowadays Thailand at 1:10.

[TigerValley62]

Hey, Dutch time!!! Fun fact, my sirname is derived from the 17th century Dutch word 'Moelman' meaning Miller, or millman. That's why on our coat of arms we have a lot of windmills. I'm proud to be Dutch😁😁😁

[Tristan D.]

I'm glad that you're name is not ending with 'Stra'

[Rutger B]

@Tristan D. What Why? I am stra/sma. We are Frisian: the godfathers. Anyways. Mill is in Dutch molen, so perhaps its derived from Molenman. Molenman -> Moelman -> Moolman.

[Wêda]

@Tristan D. What would be wrong with a Frisian name?

[TheJH1015]

@Rutger B More like Molenman -> Moleman -> Moolman

[Niels W]

@Wêda nothing but surnames ending with -ink are way better, just sayin

[Monsieur Z]

Windmill production would rise tenfold.

[MrToasteer]

Spices too

[randamu]

Hey Monsieur, never knew you watched G.K! I hope you get to 100K soon, and I love your videos.

[Z-J-I 🇵🇭]

Ayyy! Wussup, Monsieur!

[Prima - Mghrbiss]

Monsieur! In spirit of the Dutch, could you do a "what if the Netherlands joined the Entente in WW1"? Because of the good relation between the German and Dutch royal family?

[Beu]

And polders for everyone

[Слав Игры]

The only reason all of these states actually left are due to either being sold, lost in war or due to unequal treatment of the population. Though these are not modern day problems there would still be much cultural differences. But due to all the dutch culture left behind already and the cultural flexibility of the Netherlands the reunification would actually be fairly stable for the Neo Batavian Kingdom.

[fabianoasc]

The dutch ocupation of northeast of Brazil lasted for 24 years. It must be remembered the government of prince Maurice of Nassau who was a good ruler and responsible for arrival of artists and scientists to northeast of brazil. He also increased the sugar prodution and permited religious freedom .

[Kelkschiz]

That is too positive a view. He was also a relentless enslaver of people. He kickstarted the transatlantic slave-trade.

[MusicIsLegal]

@Kelkschiz The Dutch never used locals as slaves they always bought slaves mainly from Africa which sold their own people to the Dutch

[Kelkschiz]

@MusicIsLegal and your point is?

[Kelkschiz]

@Nicolaas Jonkhart You are dead wrong. Educate yourself.

[Jarum]

@Kelkschiz boohoo colonial powers used slaves. Everyone did, part of the time. Was it wrong? Sure. Did it lead to a better society today? Yes.

[Beu]

Imagine how much land we could reclaim from the sea with all that money! We would be polder empire!

[Sir Foop A.K.A Jorah Joestar]

N O M O R E O C E A N

[Kekke Wezel]

Who needs that much water anyways?

[Jesse]

*finds atlantis*

[iwan tiedema]

we would eliminate the English chanal. and take back the English throne.

[yvrelna]

The most impossible thing about this scenario is that an empire that's so spread out would be effectively impossible to defend be effectively.

[Biquini Cavadão]

When you said Madagascar 🇲🇬, didn’t you actually mean Maldives 🇲🇻? There was a circle ⭕️ on the map indicating the Asian archipelago

[「「]

Lol you mean srilanka

[Biquini Cavadão]

Yup, the green circle on the ocean, next to Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 , of course. It’s pointed out there but he says something about Madagascar 🇲🇬, that doesn’t appear on the map, once is on the southeast cost of Africa. Therefore my doubts.

[Biquini Cavadão]

Rishabh Johary let’s see. As far as I know, Madagascar 🇲🇬 was colonized by France, but maybe the Dutch kept a harbor there too

[Kawper]

@「「 Sri Lanka is under India.... He didn't mean Sri Lanka

[Edward Blair]

When he was talking about how the east and west India companies divided the world he showed how Africa was split between them. When he talked about Africa his map showed which parts were colonized by each company, but had a single color for trade posts, and he only talked about west India trade posts. But it looked like there were a few dots on the coast of Madagascar, so there you go.

[MetDaan]

As long as they would decide to join up with us, I wouldn't complain. I think it could be pretty cool!

[Matara Triaglanie]

impossible

[manmanman man]

I could only assume with the ridiculously high agricultural output of the dutch the gdp produced would be so enormous once they have such a large amounts of land to play with

[corvus13]

My Dutch ancestor was born in Recife, Brazil. When the Portuguese kicked them out, the family got separated and she and her mother went to New Amsterdam, and her father went to the Netherlands, and it was several years before they were reunited.

[Jim]

corvus13 cool story

[The Rational Agnostic]

Cool story bro

[Sport m1l Grau 5]

Your ancestor was born in my hometown. Great family story, man.

[mark nvt]

You forgot to mention how powerfull the province Frisia was in the early days. I know as a frisian citizen knowing that language, i even can use it or understand the citizens of north germany, Denmark and even other countries around the northsea. So way back in time you can concider this Dutch as Frisia is a part of the Netherlands. ( pure hypothetical )

[Sand]

The Dutch also owned big parts of England around the 17th century, the Dutch “Stadhouder” Willem III had driven Jacobus II out of England in 1688 as they tried to pull all the power to themselves. They were trying to do the same as Lodewijk XIV of France. Willem was declared king, but he had to abide by the Bill of Rights, which meant that if he wanted to make quite the big decision he had to get the approval of the parliament. The King in England had lost their power and parts of England were controlled by the Dutch.

[Roberto S]

The Dutch only needs to regain Taiwan to be able to put themselves on the forefront of economic powers. Imagine uniting ASML and Philips with all the first tier semiconductor and electronic companies such as TSMC, UMC, Asus, Foxconn under one roof. They would dictate the world's high tech business.

[Jonas Jaagur]

A collaboration would be awesome. I'm not comfortable with dictating Taiwan. I'd rather try to work together, if not, then too bad, the situation will be like it is now.

[Jonas Jaagur]

@Dr. Breadstick Yeah okay, that's true. Maybe there are some ways to collaborate to not annoy China, though. Light, reasonably harmless decisions. But yeah, you are totally right. It can be a bad decision indeed perhaps.

[Antimony Cup]

@Jonas Jaagur I expect China to attempt to regain Taiwan during the coming -Biden- Harris administration and America standing by and doing nothing about it, as the UK government currenntly does nothing about China not abiding by, at least the spirit, of the Hong Kong deal.

[Michael Leonard Setyawijaya]

"It ain't much, but it's honest work" - The Dutch

[Efreza Hakim Harahap]

Fun fact : The Dutch completely controlled Indonesia for only 50 years, the Aceh region was successfully taken over in 1906, which at that time was still a sovereign country, it even had an embassy in the Ottoman Empire.

[jbtom321]

I could see those old trade posts turning into bases on those countries. That would make the most sense instead of just neighborhoods.

[Mr.Holland]

I wonder how many people would feel angry and/or threatened if we'd pull this off.

[Toot Sie]

In all honesty the Dutch expansion in India was halted when they were soundly beaten by the King of the erstwhile state of Travancore in southern India( this was before the British Raj). So they only ever had one trading outpost in all of India

[Harco van Hees]

You can argue if some parts of Australia and New Zeeland once were under Dutch authority, but Svalbard or Spitsbergen in Dutch, is a certainty

[Bart van Dijk]

All the Dutch seeing this video. Alright you've got my attention. Now praise us.

[Coldninja]

Ik Ben hier,wie heeft me geroepd?(translate this if you cannot understand).

[taxol2]

Have you done some of the oldest continuously inhabited cities (years from their foundings till now) in the world?

[Andryw Marques]

In the Brazil regions, the Dutch period it was better than portuguese period. In Recife there are some places named after the Dutch influence, like the Mauricio de Nassau university

[abacaxi]

That's because, unlike the portuguese, the dutch geographic position forced them to industrialize and modernize their colonies so they could aready pick up and sell the final product from there. Portugal in the other hand could bother to transport all raw goods to Europe because they are located in the western tip of continental Europe with easy acess to the atlantic and the mediterrain sea. The dutch industrialization of the northeast brought good times of prosperity but in the long term Portugal retaking It was the best option for us, the dutch suck at colonizing.

[lennert v.d. werf]

Would have been nice to also have talked a little about Dejima. For some time the only foreign trading post with Japan.

[CoverHistory]

This video is extremely interesting, it is incredible to think how the world has changed.

[Gabi Koonings]

Having the Benelux together again would be cool. Also, New York.

[Sophia]

We would've been the first to the moon and even mars if people just convinced us there were spices on mars.

[DB]

Would prob work better when they convince us the inside of mars is made out of cheese ;)

[Rens Greuter]

@DB it's noga and caramel?

[TheEvertw]

There is spice in Arrakis

[CNGC]

God bless the Dutch and my partial Dutch heritage. I'm mostly Ghanaian and my great great great grandfather was Dutch from the Dutch Gold Coast

[Matthew Burden]

For some reason you omit the current Dutch overseas lands of Saba, St. Estastius and Bonaire, also that New Netherland ranged from Albany to Swanendaal (Lewis) Delaware and as far west as the Pennsylvania Delaware Valley that was finally and officially ceded to England in 1675.

[Duketown Media]

The Royal line to Luxemburgh is more powerful then it seems. Ofc, former colonies left with huge impact, like banking and laws. Suriname also has really strong ties, isolated in South America. Nice harbor. The Batavi outpost in Java, says a lot. Like Dutch sugar and tabak dealers in the Lowlands Delta. And New Amsterdam, Broadway, has strong Dutch connection. And our queen adds Argentian ties as well while we have strong shared Germanic and Nordic interests.

[Harryyyyyyyyyyy]

I love how people defend the Dutch empire talking about how great it was and how it was thrown under the rug, whereas all the others are something the nation should be ashamed of

[Mees de Rooij]

It's really a shame that I know so little of my countrys history, I'm happy you can catch me up on it😅

[Erik Litsenius]

This feels like a RealLifeLore video

[Hollywood]

I tried to measure their former territories in Toyota Corollas, also an impossible scenario

[8192 MB]

Yes

[Ahmed Hatem]

Ikr

[Makki]

SO TRUE

[triple A]

Up

[chunkykong1]

if you want to get really technical The UK and it’s colony’s should be on this map too since the UK was for a very short time part of the netherland ( the UK citizens were unhappy with their leader so they asked the dutch to invade them )

[Robert Cuminale]

New Netherlands wasn't just what is now New York. It included New Jersey, Delaware and parts of Connecticut. New Jersey and Delaware were called New Amstel. My great grandfather Pierre Cresson was Peter Stuyvesant's adjutant and was sent to Southern New Jersey and Delaware to chase the Swedes out. He didn't do too good a job since there is a Swedesboro New Jersey today and Swedish town names in Delaware. While there he purchased a lot of land in South Jersey. He was the founder of today's Woodbury in Gloucester County. There is also a town in Pennsylvania south of Philadelphia named Cresson. My other great grandfather David De Marest was a magistrate of Haarlem. He owned 5000 acres in Northern New Jersey near the New York border. (there were many French Huguenots living in The Netherlands as refugees. Peter Minuit, the first Governor General of New Netherlands was a French Huguenot. There are quite a few towns in New Jersey and New York named for these refugees.) Minuit returned later as the leader of a Swedish colonial executive. Today's New York and New Jersey also have quite a few Dutch Reformed churches. Rutgers University was once a part of the Dutch church along with New Brunswick Theological Seminary next door. The University was separated and given to New Jersey's state college system. There is a statue of Prince William the Silent between the two campuses. It's interesting to wonder what this region would be like if the British hadn't stolen the colony in 1664. Would we still speak Dutch? My grandfather spoke a derivative called Jersey Dutch. It is still spoken today by some Ramapo Indians. There are members of the tribe with Dutch names. The region would still be the financial power of the US. The Dutch started the Stock Exchange. They even gave the financial district it's name, Wall Street, named because there really was a wall that ran along the water front. It would certainly be a different place than it is today.

[Arthur S]

I'm missing a mentioning of Spitsbergen, Svalbard, or at least Amsterdam eiland, Amsterdamøya, with the place Smeerenburg. A Whaling colony. This land was tranfered to Norway in the Svalbard Treaty (originally the Spitsbergen Treaty). The treaty was signed on 9 February 1920 and submitted for registration in the League of Nations Treaty Series on 21 October 1920.

[Josh Morel]

Fun. Thanks for this. The solider count didn't make any sense however - "the Dutch actually have similar rates of soliders per capita to taiwan they just have a smaller army." Did you use a stat for China (PRC) for that 1.8M? Taiwan has a similar population to Netherlands and definitely not 1.8M soldiers.

[Enrico Dela Cruz]

Love your videos. Could you also do a video like this but this time about the spanish empire?

[R. Ladaria]

Oh no I dont want to fly to Mexico DF every time I have to go to the capital of mu country . Joke.

[牧鎌谷得]

Well, there was a Dutch union between the the Kingdom of Netherlands, Suriname, Lesser Antilles, and the United States of Indonesia in 1949. And then Indonesia decided to just get out and become Republik Indonesia and then the union just got off

[martin kullberg]

The Dutch have small territories called embassies 😁, but so do other countrie's. In the scenario in this video the small posts o.a could become embassies.

[Hairy Ghostbear]

Besides an orange dot on some of the maps you used, you complete forgot to mention the Arctic areas (mainly Spitsbergen, but also Novaya Zemlya (Nova Zembla) and a few other islands in the area)

[Wolfie Inu]

"Would part of South Africa split off to rejoin the Dutch?" The Western Cape already wants to secede apparently, so

[Stephan Hugo]

Please!!!

[Ahsanur R]

Orania

[Frankz]

Dutch Brazil was also known as New Holland by the way. I believe it would have been a better fit here, since it wouldn't be part of Brazil anymore - that is: in this scenario.

[Maarten van den berge]

there were a few things missed, as we had establishments owned by the country's we had trade deals with in for example japan as the sole western force to be traded with meaning that the current alinses and the past based on those economicly beneficial deals would be a big factor as well, and most likely enter us into a much higher gdp as well as that we would most likely use it to reinforce the current human befeficial laws trewout and up the gdp even more that way

[MCJ]

Why wasnt Britain made part of the Netherlands, after king William lll became king of Scotland, Ireland and England.

[Bruno of Calabria]

For the same reason why the Scandinavian countries weren't merged into one nation after the Kalmar Union was dissolved, King William III ruled over two entities, the Dutch Republic, also referred to as the "Nederlandse koloniale rijk", and Great Britain. After his death, the German House of Hanover took the British throne, and the Netherlands/Nederlands were no longer under a personal union with GB.

[rodepeer]

Because that's a personal union, not a single country. A personal union is when one king/queen rules over two separate nations at once.

[Marnix Mulder]

And Australia

[George Smith]

No, they remained seperate countries and it was not a proper union of the states

[Niels De Coene]

William III initially only ruled over England, Scotland and Ireland in name of his wife (Queen Mary). Since they had no children William was allowed to remain king for what was left of his life. Probably bc of gratitude for the glorious revolution or to keep stability

[Sonic Goo]

The Dutch presence in India is so weird. Few people even remember it but if one or two battles against the British had gone the other way, things could've been very different there.

[Me Neither]

Sometimes I wonder if Portugal would have been way richer had they not been in a personal union under the Castillians.

[Roodborst Kalf]

Yes, they suffered severely between 1590 and 1640

[avsbes]

As a German i hereby recognize the Claim of the Netherlands on this Comment Section! Gekoloniseerd!

[TheLocalLt]

Reichscommisariat commenten

[YOUNGGLOCKNL !]

Blitzkrieged

[Dick Schwanzstein]

What? You already tried in 1940-1945. And your funnily moustached leader failed

[Fakhry Hartono]

Ah, a German. Gruß aus Indonesia!

[avsbes]

@Fakhry Hartono (I hope Google translate didn't fail me) Salam untuk Indonesia!

[BananenBoerBob]

Tasmania still technically carries some sort of Dutch name as it was named after the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman. I guess this imagined new empire wouldn't include the Belgian colony Congo because that was technically Leopold's instead of owned by Belgium?

[Tim Nicholls]

You missed Western Australia they also claimed a large swead of that but never actually put structures up. But often landed and done expeditions

[Dutch Tunisian]

G E K O L O N I S E E R D Sorry i had to do it lol

[JDJPhotographyNL]

Beat me to it. XD

[Joshua O'Sullivan]

Just like the colonizers did.

[martin kullberg]

Goedendag 😁

[Dutch Tunisian]

@martin kullberg goedenavond :)

[Jim]

S P E C E R I J E N

[Anton Nyberg]

Do one of these with the Swedish Empire!

[Blode Kont]

6:00 Tasmania was Van diemensland, but later nemed after the one who discovered it.. Abel Tasman a Dutch explorer who discovered it. New Zealand was also discovered by the Dutch and named after their provence of Zeeland..by the way. Australia was named New Holland

[Jannes Lenkens]

I don't know if you talk about this later on but you finished about Australia without telling this so I just wanted to say it. on the tip of Australia there is a whole region called Arnhemland which is a Dutch city.

[Robespierre]

From Alasca to Malvinas From Netherlands to Napoles From Morocco to Ecuatorial Guinea From Philippines to Guam The sun never sets in the Spanish empire

[R. V. B.]

0:30 It is also not entirely accurate, the Dutch for example also had possessions in the north (e.g. Spitsbergen).

[Kekke Wezel]

Also Nova Zembla

[valkyrie dra]

Dutch : takes a little land from other countries *expect indonesia* Indonesia : wtf Dutch : I smell spices

[Kekke Wezel]

FI FY FO FUM I SMELL A COUNTRY WITH CINAMMON

[hopeless]

Except or expect?umm

[valkyrie dra]

@hopeless Wait what- Idk why I write this comment, and now I feel confused about my own comment....

[Mysterious]

It will be a goodnight when general knowledge and bring Side uploads together

[Darth O P]

General Knowledge Could you pretty please do a video of What if Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland & Iceland united into 1 unifed nation & a video of what is Great Brittan, United States, Canada, Australia & New Zealand united into 1 contrey?

[TrueBlueKangaroo]

Remove the USA and you have CANZUK. The USA wouldn't fit with any of those countries.

[randamu]

@TrueBlueKangaroo You know, those are Britans old colonies and allies right? The name doesn't matter, it (the name) can be something else.

[Darth O P]

@TrueBlueKangaroo Yeah i know, but i was thinking of something on the line of a Greater United Anglosphere.

[Hendricus56]

Maybe join the DC server and write that suggestion in the #suggestions-video channel. GK regularly checks the suggestions there

[TrueBlueKangaroo]

@randamu CANZUK is a real thing. Look it up. Yes, theyre commonwealth countries and thats why theyre so similar.

[Erik Wijnhoven]

When a random KZbin channel talks about a small country that is my home country Me: aandacht

[Superbeltman]

The Netherlands experiences the Estonia Effect interesting

[Marco]

+1 maat

[Pita Apple-man]

Dat is mijn vriend reinier

[Tiago costa]

I discover this guy its from my country that is even smaler

[ζεφυρος]

Totale aandacht

[Suyeon]

Let's get an applause for Colonization

[Henry Gutierrez]

What if the Spanish Armada had succeeded?

[AbyssWatcher]

As an Indonesian, I wouldn't mind that much as long it's the modern Dutch.

[Ilhamdi Hafiz]

But what about the Dutch?

[Hjalmar]

Dutchman here. I don't think most Indonesians agree with you and I can't blame them.

[AbyssWatcher]

@Hjalmar Yeah probably not.

[Nationalist Liberal]

@Hjalmar yep i personally would go to war for my country independence.

[Heisse Scheisse]

@AbyssWatcher With the modern day Dutch you could expect more something like a trade union. We would have more spices again (fair-trade this time) and you guys can enjoy our tax heaven while you store money on Luxembourgish banks.

[Helen ooft]

We dont need to be an Empire like before, we are civilized and knows that we have to respect other country's, we just have to make friends and have respect for their culture like they do ours. I hope that we in the next future always welcome foreigners to our country.

[Laura Ryan]

I would like to request a Febo franchise in New Amsterdam with this scenario. Bedankt!

[Mr. Brightside]

Do Dutch people know about Herman Willem Daendels? He build the road in my country during the colonial era. The road is about 1000 Km runs across Java, called 'Jalan Raya Post' or 'De Grote Postweg'. History is dark and miserable but I guess Indonesia and the Netherlands is okay right now 🇮🇩🇳🇱

[Julian dB]

As a dutch man I must watch this with pride

[robbin smeekes]

Blijkbaar mag je niet trots zijn op ons verleden en de voc want dan ben je meteen een racist

[Miss b]

Heb echt medelijden met je... het waren plunderaars maar ja daarom leven we nu in een rijke land he

[The Bear]

@Miss b Trots op Nederland en de VOC! ❤️🇳🇱💪🏻

[kabouterwesley83]

New Holland (currently known as Australia) and New Zealand: "are we a joke to you?"

[foxskaminer]

Wait did Australia And new sealand used to of the dutch empire

[Rachel Ciel]

@foxskaminer More like, Netherlands named it. They only stayed around briefly, study the land for a bit, named it, and then be done with it since their main focus and favourite darling was Dutch East Indie, not that big piece of land that didn't look fertile (New Holland/Australia). New Zealand was initially New ZeEland, the british changed it a bit.

[foxskaminer]

@Rachel Ciel yes ik now

[Ender]

Northeast Brazil was called New Holland too.

[kabouterwesley83]

@Rachel Ciel you are correct. the islands have first been explored by Abel Tasman, but he saw no potential in it. (the island Tasmania is named after him) Later James Cook explored a different area of the islands and did see potential. The British asked "can we have those?" and the Dutch were like "sure, why not."

[Sefi's Fressmeile GmbH]

You forgot to mention New Zealand since it's named after the Dutch provence "Zeeland" and is still spelled with a Z(ealand) and not with an S(ealand).

[Niels Schenkeveld]

And Australia and Tasmania, those were discovered by Abel Tasman, but the dutch didn't see trade possebillities, and let them be. The other colonies were meant for trade or slavery (which was back than trade)

[Artichoke The joke]

I love how the thumbnail paints the ocean orange as if the dutch have already destroyed the sea

[Ivo Eenink]

Didn’t destroyed sea but we did mastered it. Literally because we can make land out of water

[Robert Boender]

To all former colonies and it's people who we treated terribly. I'm sorry we did and love you all. But maybe we can make a difference together and at least start talking to each other and make a better life for all.

[DaaromRochdiGames]

You forgot that The Netherlands had Australië and new-Zealand. And Australië was called new-Holland

[Kevin Bohorquez Malengreau]

The small trade posts could be small embassy neighbourhoods instead of an embassy building, also, not to brag, but quite a big chunk of the Flemish wouldn't mind merging or joining the Netherlands again.

[Z-J-I 🇵🇭]

The Netherlands: Mr. Worldwide Also, I have a question: What if all Southeast Asia nations (ASEAN) united today?

[TMSupreme 77]

Civil war?

[ComradeKenobi]

@TMSupreme 77 nah they're chill

[TMSupreme 77]

@ComradeKenobi ah good.

[ComradeKenobi]

Blue-Creeper UTTP THDTC the South East Asians are pretty tame guys compared to the Balkans though

[elektron117]

@ComradeKenobi But uniting them? I see, you like jungle warfare eh?

[Blago Meni]

Well, NLD is not in Central Europe. NLD is in Western Europe.

[Prasanna Srinath Subhasinghe]

Very informative, but a small correction. Dutch never ruled the entire Sri Lanka. Only the British did that. I think Dutch may have rule half of the country at most

[Miklos de Rijk]

the Dutch owned Spitsbergen, and a house on Nova Zembla. The Dutch are like the Ferengi of Star Trek. Trade is everything.

[Roodborst Kalf]

Ferengi is the south-east Asian name for the Franks. The Franks are also the most important of the Germanic tribes that gave rise to the Dutch 1000 years ago.

[I’m crying in a corner While i count my money]

@Roodborst Kalf The franks are celts lol