What If The Dutch Empire Reunited Today
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Which other empires could I do this for?
General Knowledge Portugal, Spain and Britain (but I’m pretty sure you’ve done most of them
maybe German? Russian? (dunno if you did any of them but it's just an idea)
German Colonial empire?
german and british.
1st Mexican empire?
The Dutch Empire is like that kid that takes a bite out of everything but never completely eats it
Devon deBorst lol so true
they do it in Indonesia
trueee u made me laugh
@@joeanwar88 indonisia is only country taken all
@@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
"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
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.
@@Gabriel-ip6me 🤡
@@Gabriel-ip6me 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.
@@vincewouw1 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.
@@Gabriel-ip6me well u just got some dumbass reasoning but well that's fine ig
*The day the Dutch find out you can grow spices in space*....
Every alien: Why do I smell stroopwafel en gebakken peren?
as a Dutch person I liked this
The dutch: Hold my Stroopwafel.
Every alien: Why do i hear boss music?
This was a good one, made me laugh, thank you
@@Hennie4life
Dutch: Aliens, we want to buy your whitewidow.
Aliens: *Hands over mourning white woman*
Dutch: And 6 feet rolling paper/blowtorch I guess.....
@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!!
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.
@@neehee3121 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.
@@neehee3121 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.
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.
@@joaov.m.oliveira9903 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.
@@joaov.m.oliveira9903 as a brazilian, thank you for these comments
The Netherlands was never considered Central Europe, It’s just western...
I paused and looked for this commentaar.
The Netherlands are not western lol
@@Xarosy hmm they definitely are 😂
@@Xarosy The UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, Luxembourg, France and Germany are all considered Western
@@Geertt Germany is central
G E K O L O N I S E E R D
Sorry i had to do it lol
Beat me to it. XD
Just like the colonizers did.
Goedendag 😁
@@martinkullberg6718 goedenavond :)
S P E C E R I J E N
2:53 “briefly” the Dutch held the cape for almost 200 years
Hold my beer
Nearly 350 years in Indonesia
@@MrJamiesilaban hold my beer
Amsterdam
@@MrJamiesilaban
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
@@superbeltman6197
should be cheers broer 🤣
The dutch farmers tried to defend it
When a random UA-cam channel talks about a small country that is my home country
Me: aandacht
The Netherlands experiences the Estonia Effect interesting
+1 maat
Dat is mijn vriend reinier
I discover this guy its from my country that is even smaler
Totale aandacht
Windmill production would rise tenfold.
Spices too
Hey Monsieur, never knew you watched G.K! I hope you get to 100K soon, and I love your videos.
Ayyy! Wussup, Monsieur!
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?
And polders for everyone
You basically missed the whole country of new-Zeeland which name comes from the Dutch province Zeeland
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.
@@Marcel75432 I know but the name is Dutch he could have mentioned it
Abboneer op serpentgameplay goeie shit daar
@@thepumpkinman381 eens
XD dat is een goeie (thats an good one)
When a country has spices
Netherlands: I'll TAKE YOUR ENTIRE STOCK!
"You heard what i said, *take, not buy!!!!"
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**
Porr countries: ima head out
As a cicizen of the Western Cape from South Africa I would be happy for the dutch to take us back
What happens in the western cape
@@thomas8190 an absalot power struggle between this province and the rest
Are Flemish people also welcome?
yes we will you give stroopwafels😉
I wouldn’t
Any country with spices: ...
The dutch:
G E K O L O N I S E E R D
it's free real estate
General Knowledge yes
And still, Dutch cuisine doesn't use any of those spices... What went wrong?
@@randyyy2609 We probably just sold em to other countries
@@randyyy2609 depends how you make it having stampot with spices is an actual thing (stampot is mashed potatoes with some mashed vegitables
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
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.
Rishabh Johary let’s see. As far as I know, Madagascar 🇲🇬 was colonized by France, but maybe the Dutch kept a harbor there too
@@user-yu8my5qr9j Sri Lanka is under India....
He didn't mean Sri Lanka
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.
This feels like a RealLifeLore video
I tried to measure their former territories in Toyota Corollas, also an impossible scenario
Yes
Ikr
SO TRUE
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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.
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.
@@kevind7227 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
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"
@@kevind7227 because of a number of stupid things the Dutch royal family did. If you want to know what they did react on this comment.
@@-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.
"It ain't much, but it's honest work"
- The 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.
Well being born and raised in Arnhem...
Like to point out
👉 Arnhemland, Australia
New Zealand is also named after the dutch province.
Why wasnt Britain made part of the Netherlands, after king William lll became king of Scotland, Ireland and England.
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.
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.
And Australia
No, they remained seperate countries and it was not a proper union of the states
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
As someone who was born and raised in New Amsterdam, I am all for this.
You must be very old🤣
As a German i hereby recognize the Claim of the Netherlands on this Comment Section!
Gekoloniseerd!
Reichscommisariat commenten
Blitzkrieged
What? You already tried in 1940-1945. And your funnily moustached leader failed
Ah, a German. Gruß aus Indonesia!
@@fakhryhartono6352 (I hope Google translate didn't fail me)
Salam untuk Indonesia!
If reunited today? Dutch would probably get a severe headache from her largest colony.
@michi hofer i don't see that happening
@michi hofer wkekwkwk NGIMPI
No, we would get access to amazing food ;)
@michi hofer hahahaha ur dumb, that only happens if the dutch take u back. the current state of the country is very poor and that won’t change soon.
@@xander8468 what country is in poor state?
As an Indonesian, I wouldn't mind that much as long it's the modern Dutch.
But what about the Dutch?
Dutchman here. I don't think most Indonesians agree with you and I can't blame them.
@@hjalmar4565 Yeah probably not.
@@hjalmar4565 yep i personally would go to war for my country independence.
@@abysswatcher9172 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.
0:30 It is also not entirely accurate, the Dutch for example also had possessions in the north (e.g. Spitsbergen).
Also Nova Zembla
Dutch : takes a little land from other countries *expect indonesia*
Indonesia : wtf
Dutch : I smell spices
FI FY FO FUM I SMELL A COUNTRY WITH CINAMMON
Except or expect?umm
@@Fylnnn
Wait what-
Idk why I write this comment, and now I feel confused about my own comment....
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 :)
We would've been the first to the moon and even mars if people just convinced us there were spices on mars.
Would prob work better when they convince us the inside of mars is made out of cheese ;)
@@TMTFT it's noga and caramel?
There is spice in Arrakis
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😁😁😁
I'm glad that you're name is not ending with 'Stra'
@@Deelom100 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.
@@Deelom100 What would be wrong with a Frisian name?
@@rutgerb More like Molenman -> Moleman -> Moolman
@@Weda01 nothing but surnames ending with -ink are way better, just sayin
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 .
That is too positive a view. He was also a relentless enslaver of people. He kickstarted the transatlantic slave-trade.
@@Kelkschiz The Dutch never used locals as slaves they always bought slaves mainly from Africa which sold their own people to the Dutch
@@MusicIsLegal and your point is?
@@nicolaasjonkhart4660 You are dead wrong. Educate yourself.
@@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.
This was really interesting, I’d love to see you make these videos for other empires such as the british
Hello, from former Dutch Brazil!
The Dutch empire would actually be even bigger. If they controlled Belgium, they would also have control over their colonies (Kongo etc).
@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.
Other colonial powers would split congo if belgium never got independence
@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.
@@WHO-hm5ve Yeah maybe, we don't know... But this was just an hypothesis about the biggest possible extend
@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
New Holland (currently known as Australia) and New Zealand: "are we a joke to you?"
Wait did Australia And new sealand used to of the dutch empire
@@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.
@@rachelciel3330 yes ik now
Northeast Brazil was called New Holland too.
@@rachelciel3330 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."
Well, NLD is not in Central Europe. NLD is in Western Europe.
General Knowledge is Portuguese, everywhere else in Europe is central to him lmao
Imagine how much land we could reclaim from the sea with all that money! We would be polder empire!
N O M O R E O C E A N
We can probably capture whole Europe and that will make us the strongest country in the world IF it reunited
Who needs that much water anyways?
*finds atlantis*
we would eliminate the English chanal. and take back the English throne.
All the Dutch seeing this video. Alright you've got my attention. Now praise us.
Ik Ben hier,wie heeft me geroepd?(translate this if you cannot understand).
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.
corvus13 cool story
Cool story bro
Your ancestor was born in my hometown. Great family story, man.
I was expecting a more glorifying narration, but the video was very factual. As a dutch hobby historian you have my compliments!
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.
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
I get mad “history with Hilbert”-vibes from the anthem in the start
Back in line bro. You're Dutch now ;)
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
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.
Sounds to me like a good plan. Let's start with the Dutch America's and expand from there.
I'm all for it.
That would be such a culture shock for the current inhabitants.
@@NeedANewName The way things are going right now, it can only be an improvement.
@@freudsigmund72 indeed
@Maggiee The Dutch back then is a different people than the Dutch now... it is even a new country (founded in 1812)
if someone try to colonize my motherland im ready to die for it
The VOC seems happy after this video
the VOC is now called SHELL
0:05 The Netherlands isn't Central Europe, it's Western Europe.
0:07 As shown in the diagram the Netherlands also holds Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, not just Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten.
2:07 The official dividing line if I recall correctly was the Drake Passage in the west and the Cape Colony in the east (however the West Indies Company did hold the chilean outposts even tho this is past this line).
5:48 There was never a claim by the Dutch on Australia (then called New Holland), it was just exploratory mission. Tasmania was renamed in honor of one of the Dutch explorers, Abel Tasman, so it technically still has a Dutch name.
6:28 Most of South Africa was either colonised by the Dutch or their decendants (the Boers), the green area on the map is just what the Dutch Empire controlled. In this scenario I'm pretty sure it would all join. This map is also not self consistent since the Dutch claimed much more of Brazil as theirs but not all of it is shown, however in Taiwan while they claimed it all, they only controlled a bit of the south of the island.
Thank you for mentioning Saba! I live on Saba and was disappointed that he didn't mention it
9:51 EU is not a country, and if it was germany would be part of it
@delonix regia I said most of South Africa and the English only took over what the Dutch and Boers already had.
@@foundunwanted713 no problem!
You are wrong on your second point. The kingdom of the Netherlands = The Netherlands, Aruba, Curacao & Sint Maarten. While Saba, Sint Eustatius and Bonaire are provinces within the Netherlands "under special status".
Indonesians: *grabs* *bamboo* *spears*
We're not protestant. We're secular with our biggest religion being: not religious.
Back in the days we were very religious, mainly catholic and protestant
Actually highest (self identified) 'religion' is "ietsisme" (which roughly translates to 'something-ism' for all you non-dutch speakers ). They believe in something else than just the material and tangible, but it's not clear what it is exactly.
@@fordprefect9296 which include many humanism an paganism things.
@@JB-bh3yi lol it where christians as biggest group dude. Catholic was the second biggest group. Now its atheïst that is the biggest group in the Netherlands. Thank God.
Are you ignoring that most atheists here still come from protestant family, attend protestant schools and the fact that we literally had a 100 year war with spain bc most of the Netherlands was protestant? Tolerating other religious views and secularism doesn’t mean the majority is atheist which makes it very clear you never paid attention in high school social studies nor history.
"Would part of South Africa split off to rejoin the Dutch?"
The Western Cape already wants to secede apparently, so
Please!!!
Orania
With Belgium included we would have an awesome international soccer team
Thanks for planning ahead
Indonesia: ah sh*t here we go again
"...Budi. Get the bamboo spear."
Pulang bang
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)
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
Great video!
I come from the Netherlands and I barely knew any of that. Great vid.
Small country big colony lol
Yes 😡
Portugal be like
This is all of Europe except Russia and in the old days Germany
Eh living in a small country has some good parts. Like for exemple, if i want to go to a friend that lives on the other side of the country ill just take a train that will take like 1 hour or go with the car
@@sid86588 1 hour with the car? Hell no, you would get stuck in traffic easy
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
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.
Here in north Piauí we also have some influence.
Love your videos. Could you also do a video like this but this time about the spanish empire?
Oh no I dont want to fly to Mexico DF every time I have to go to the capital of mu country . Joke.
Good stuff!
Roman blueprint, chapter 1.
You forgot to include landtrade.. hanse-trade-route, which is land/river, is Cool. Dus edifact, cbs. The Frysian reality. But watch out for the Double Dutch sandwich..
I love how the thumbnail paints the ocean orange as if the dutch have already destroyed the sea
Didn’t destroyed sea but we did mastered it. Literally because we can make land out of water
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?
Remove the USA and you have CANZUK. The USA wouldn't fit with any of those countries.
@@TrueBlueKangaroo You know, those are Britans old colonies and allies right? The name doesn't matter, it (the name) can be something else.
@@TrueBlueKangaroo Yeah i know, but i was thinking of something on the line of a Greater United Anglosphere.
Maybe join the DC server and write that suggestion in the #suggestions-video channel. GK regularly checks the suggestions there
@@raandamu CANZUK is a real thing. Look it up. Yes, theyre commonwealth countries and thats why theyre so similar.
Thank you very much!
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.
The VOC (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie) only had a monopoly on trade with some regions and was by far not the only company to foster trade with the world. But it became the poster child of dutch colonization. Lots of companies were run by just small private investors that pulled some money together and started a trading company. The real driver behind the trading empire was free and private entrepreneurship, not a government mandated organization. However, the VOC is the first multinational company in modern history and set the template for others. Also the Amsterdam stock exchange is the first stock exchange and we had the first economic bubble with the tulip mania. (a dubious honor)
Today we still have a lot of problems in the world with big multinational companies that are more powerful than some countries. And just like the VOC at the end, they need a bailout by the government and cost the economy a lot of money. Short term they seem profitable because they can control end exploit some markets and oversees countries. But in the long term they eventually fall behind because they are unable to change with changing market conditions and build up a lot of debt. And then I'm not speaking of the social problems they cause.
BTW. According to the dutch Wiki page, the VOC was created by joining a lot of smaller existing dutch trading companies into one organization. This was forced by the government to generate money to support the war efforts against Spain. Before the individual companies were in fierce competition with each other and didn't generate enough profits that could be taxed. Conclusion: The VOC was not the cause of the boom in trade and was not a natural occurrence.
This might be to political, as this channel is quite a-political. The deeper point is, the dutch were at some point the cradle of free trade and that did a lot of good to the world. But we also created some, in my opinion, wrong institutions that changed trade into means of oppression and exploitation. Which as a Dutchman, I regret.
Okay commie time to go to bed
@@pashaofutrecht6392 You didn't understand anything of what I said, and it is one o'clock in the afternoon.
Z E G M A K K E R !
Good plan, we might put it into practice😂😂👀👀👀👀
I never knew this about my country lol thanks you for this
back to school you go. How could you have never learned about the VOC?
This video is extremely interesting, it is incredible to think how the world has changed.
Do you guys think it would've been possible for the Dutch Empire to exist through the Napoleonic Wars?
No one:
The Dutch: GEKOLONISEERD!!!!
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.
Btw the dots are not colonized it are "handelsposten" what stands for tradingpoints
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.
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.
@@DrBreadstick 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.
@@jonasjaagur9635 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.
"Daar was a brief overview" Did I hear a bit of Dutch there?
Would have been nice to also have talked a little about Dejima. For some time the only foreign trading post with Japan.
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.
As a dutch man I must watch this with pride
Blijkbaar mag je niet trots zijn op ons verleden en de voc want dan ben je meteen een racist
Heb echt medelijden met je... het waren plunderaars maar ja daarom leven we nu in een rijke land he
@@joeredebom dieven dat is wat jullie waren!!!! En nu huilen om buitenlanders ga janken ga
@@missb9628 haha dus omdat ik Nederlander ben ben ik racistisch. Ga toch fietsen Of is fietsen ook racistisch omdat Nederland het fiets land is Mensen zo als jij sporen niet. Jij bent onderdeel van het probleem. Beetje blindelings mensen veroordelen zonder dat je ook maar iets van ze weet 🖕👋
@jasper loman racist 🤣
"Absolutely impossible"? Just you wait untill my campaign for prime minister starts
Have you done some of the oldest continuously inhabited cities (years from their foundings till now) in the world?
The Dutch empire truly reflective to the Dutch culture/attitude. They only took the trading post that is significant to their trading purposes (VOC).
I rather be Dutch then fundamentalist Islamist.
Sri Lankan Highlands was not a part of Duch Empire. They were Independent as "Kindom of Kandy".
Indeed lot of points on the map where stations to support ships and for trade, it was not possible to exist without the blessing of local rulers and that seems to be forgotten by a lot of people. Voc started in Indonesia also with support of local sultans but it changed 200 years later (1800) in a real colony.
"Better eat cassava but Independent than eating steak but become Dutch servant."
- Soekarno Indonesian leader of revolution againts Netherlands-
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Stop waving our flag thank you.
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
I could see those old trade posts turning into bases on those countries. That would make the most sense instead of just neighborhoods.
Technically Netherlands has more Catholics than it has Protestants.
But in reality Netherlands is mostly a-religious, followed by catholic and then protestant.
@delonix regia not really, the south is fully catholic, most ppl are irreligious and the biggest Christian party unifies both catholics and protestants
@delonix regia there are also hindu jews etc. Just stopped where he was wrong.
While its true that a portion of irreligious people grew up in protestant families, the decline has been going on since 60s.
The monarchs only have a ceremonial role so that point is moot.
Indeed. A majority of the dutch is irreligious nowadays.
Most people still have christian traditions like easter and christmas so it still kinda has an culteral influence
EetJeBordOpツ jongens, waarom voeren jullie een discussie met andere Nederlanders over Nederland in het Engels.
I am Dutch, so I have to say the funny word: G E K O L O N I S E E R D
Ehm ik denk niet echt dat je Nederlands bent
D E K O L O N I S A T I E
Bruh moment
G E K O L O N I S E E R D!
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.
Verry interesting. Thanks.
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.
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).
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)
At 6.00 The name Tasmania, like Van Diemen's Land, is Dutch too, named after the explorer Abel Tasman
I recommend getting a pop filter for your voice over recordings
I live in The Netherlands and i didn't even know we had that much colonies😂
Ken je Geschiedins niffeau 😉
Kom frikandelbroodje halen bij appie
@@Simon-zw2hr en jij je spellings niveau 🤪
Ravi Van den broek dat is niet niveau..., volgens mij bedoelt hij/zij niffau
I didn't even know the Dutch have that much colonies!
0:29 G E K O L O N I S E E R D
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.
9:02 These numbers even add up to over 3 million soldiers
As long as they would decide to join up with us, I wouldn't complain. I think it could be pretty cool!
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Great video, but you made quite a few mistakes:
-You mention the Dutch briefly occupied The Cape of the Good Hope, I think that is off considering they are still the nation to have held on to it directly for the longest time.
-The Forts you mention were often land purchased from the natives (or stolen from the Portuguese) but were not considered Dutch territory. They were owned by corporations that made their own laws and waged their own wars.
-Indonesia being majority Muslim is a vast oversimplification or the ethnic and religious diversity in Indonesia. The Netherlands is a majority Atheist country that has had an official policy of tolerance since its declaration of independence, as well as a complete separation of church and state for almost all of its existence.
-You seem to (probably intentionally) left out the Dutch occupation of Great Britain during the Glorious Revolution/The War of the Coalition of Augsburg/King William's War
-Finally, especially in New Netherland, South Africa, and Brazil there is still quite a bit of Dutch cultural legacy. Brazil is one of the most religious and ethnically diverse nations in the world, in part thanks due to the changes the Dutch made while in charge there. New Netherland still exists culturally and is both diverse and far more progressive than it's a neighboring area within the states. The language gap is also smaller than you think as the Netherlands actually has a higher percentage of English speakers than the USA and rural areas occasionally still have Dutch slang (Knickers=Marbles as an example). South Africa's Boer population speaks for itself.
I'm not arguing your main point that it would be highly unlikely, but as someone fascinated by history I felt the need to correct a few of these misgivings.
Agreed, however the majority of the Dutch is non-religious (agnosticism being the largest) so it is not an atheist country.
J are you dutch
@@thomash7294 Agnosticism and atheism are not mutually exclusive, in fact most self-identifying atheists will more specifically identify as agnostic atheists. Gnostic atheists are very rare because atheists usually don't want to adopt a burden of proof by making positive statements.
@@antimonycup7066 never thought about it that way. But I think most agnostics or atheists don't even exactly know what type they are. So, I think my statement holds lol.
@@thomash7294 That's why I said *self-identifying atheists* which is that portion of atheists that arrived at their conclusions after some research and thought. Technically, every baby is an atheist too. But I don't state that The Netherlands is an atheist country, it's a secular country (mostly).
Fun fact. In terms of companies the voc was the biggest ever. It was worth more than Google, Amazon, Apple, mircosoft and luxemburg combined
Lovely to see glory again