Reaction To When The Dutch Ruled The World: The Rise & Fall of the Dutch East India Company

We see the Indonesians as brothers, even though we have done terrible things against their people. But personally I see all colonies as family because they are completely integrated and part of Dutch culture.

Brooklyn-Breukelen, Harlem-Haarlem,Coney Island- konijneneiland, Deventer-Deventer, Amsterdam(ohio) - Amsterdam(north Holland), Harlingen(texas) and Harlingen, Breda (Iowa and Minnesota) - Breda, Flushing-Vlissingen, etc etc most are around or in New-York and Michigan has a lot of Dutch towns with names of Dutch provinces like Zeeland, Drenthe, Gronigen,Overissel-Overijssel

Also a fun fact: The oldest piece of a fence still intact in New York was put there by the Dutch. It's also the Dutch that built that neighborhood with all the red brick houses. Also, a lot of the vocabulary that the Amish use has it's roots in either Dutch or German since I can understand most of what the elders or whatever talk about

Why did the Dutch started the stock exchange. In other countries the endvours of trading and exploring was founded by the king using taxpayers money. As there was no king, who would have that power, in the Republic. They had to come up with other ideas.

One example of Indonesian & Dutch cooperation resulted in the Rockband Van Halen. Alex and Eddie van Halen had a Dutch father and Indonesian mother. 😁

The Dutch where able to build boats 6 times faster than England and Portugal because of the windmill... :face-red-heart-shape:

"Apartheid" is not a word to be proud of but probably the only worldwide used Dutch word. i recently learned that Duck-tape comes from the Dutch word "doek" for cloth or rag. And Dutch itself came from the time when the English confused us with those other people, calling themselves Deutsch, die Deutschers auf Deutschland.

There are a lot Dutch "cities" in South Africa.

Zeeland is a dutch province, it's capital Middelburg was in the VOC time a important harbor

This video is British bull shit back to forth. The Dutch Republic won it's independence in 1581 while it was already huge in the European trade and despite the war. The spice trade from Lisbon to the Baltic Sea was a futile part of that. By the time the VOC started paying profits for the first time, in 1633, the reclamation projects (also as a stock company) were already finished and the Dutch merchant fleet, thanks to the wind saw mill, an early central bank and efficient specialized merchant ships, was bigger than the rest of Europe combined. No way the less than 200 ships taking a year to sail back of peak VOC were a significant part of the wealth. Even the herring fleet alone was more profitable than peak VOC. The story is that the English couldn't compete in the free and fair trade of Europe and therefore made up that trade went global, nonsense, 99 percent of the trade was European and that was mostly Dutch. The English had to go global to make a buck. The Dutch went global to take the war for independence with Spain and Portugal overseas. VOC shares weren't sold at the exchange, there were sold in chambers spread over many port cities. Because it was a nationalistic war entreprise and a lot of it's shareholders were very ordinary people with their savings, carpenters and maids and stuff. But because the VOC soon saw a lot more opportunities than anticipated (sink some Portuguese ships and bring some silk to pay for the operations), it wanted to reinvest profits instead of paying dividends. The maid with a part of her savings in the shares could not wait for ROI that long, so a stock exchange was founded so she could get ROI through selling her share, to a rich merchant who could build wealth patiently. So the shares shifted from the working class to the rich while the VOC didn't pay dividends for 31 years. The public stock company was the important innovation here, the stock exchange is not of much economic relevance, not back then and not now. The Dutch had their colonial sins, but it got obscenely rich from dominating the free fair European trade. It's not like Europe switched from wheat, rye and herring to nutmeg, cinamon and pepper for nutrition. The big money was in the boring, safe and far more frequent bulk trade. The spices were the backbone of the VOC's trade within Asia. The Chinese, Japanese, Persians and Indians were far to sophisticated to take any interest in European goods, it was either silver or spices that got the Dutch access to their markets and the Dutch had to be very humble and submissive with most of the Asian powers. Over 65% of the VOC's trade was done within Asia. Indeed all the rich merchants had VOC shares, because that is what rich people do, they would have become rich from shipping bulk goods in Europe though. This is a false both ideological and British chauvinistic narrative. Britain got rich from colonialism probably, for the Dutch it was a tiny cherry on a huge cake and only in very late 18th century the British took over as the world's biggest trader, thanks to the French invasion. The real colonization of Indonesia only started in the late 19th century and early 20th century and was meant to be an improvement for the people there, since the exploitation through local rulers was often cruel. It did lead to bloody wars though. The independence war after WWII was bloody too, including racist massacres by the Indonesian nationalists called Bersiap. But despite the messy divorce, there is still a lot of love for Indonesia here. It's in the arts, architecture, food and in the blood of lots of people that might seem white at first glance and are considered native white Dutch in the statistics because there is no statistical difference anyway. It's fully integrated and mixed through marriages for several generations.

Zealand is a province in The Netherlands (Zeeland), Thats why is called New Zealand

The VOC was the biggest and most powerful company in the world ever, worth of the VOC today would be: $7.9 Trillion U.S. Dollars

Nice vid, I am dutch as well and like these types of videos, a little tip, it might be better if you put a light behind you, orange or something warmer since it is hard to see you and it is all a bit gray, keep in mind that I don’t know a lot about it, so if you have already tried something like it and it didn’t work don’t do what I said. Nice vid

Ruling the world does have it's negative side effects. Not so much for the ruler, but very much for the ruled. To gain power one must subjugate.

Zeeland is one of the Dutch provinces located in the southwest.

Saint Petersburg: Its current and original name was given to the city in 1703 by its founder Peter the Great in honor of Saint Peter, one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ. Although the name was derived from Dutch, to avoid sounding German-like, the city was renamed to Petrograd, during World War I.

You should watch the Defqon.1 music festival Sunday endshow of 2024 (the closing ritual). The end part is fenomenal. Also the Defcon.1 Power hour Left Right is one of the biggest crowd controls ever.

it;s not the golden coach but he tels the story about the dutch freestate in Europe, where people from hole of europe could find a safe place

South-Africa has a lot of Dutch city-names

In actuality, during what the Dutch call the golden century, the heyday of the VOC, the vast majority of Dutch people was very very poor and could barely feed themselves. Women and children had to work and still could hardly get by. There has been a lot of discussion lately about asking for “ forgiveness“ for the slave trade, obviously immediately followed by the question how much the black community should be paid. I can trace back my family on both sides to the 16th century. In most cases, that includes where they lived and what their trade was. There was no money there and no benefits that I can see of this golden age for my ancestors. They were poor people living hard lives. I think historians might spend a little more time on what life was like for ordinary people.