Dutch East India Company

Effects of Land on Colonial Culture: New Jersey More often than not, the most successful people endured obstacles and difficulties. Even when they have the tools to succeed, outside forces impede and slow them down. Fertile land, access to water, and a location that was ideal for trade. These characteristics of New Jersey seem to be the perfect foundation for a booming colony. However, the advantages of these features were weighed down by disputes over possession, a lack of common currency, and…

church service where they used incents, which were symbolizing cleansing and for prayer. I thought it was an interesting element to the service, although I was not feeling well because of them. After church we walked around the area, checking out the Dutch Reform Church, which was just across the street next to Parliament. I noticed there were lots of statues in the area and particularly people who represented…

drastically reduced price of two shillings per pound--a third less than the orginal price...Since the low-priced East India tea would undersell the smuggled Dutch tea, the merchants stood to lose significant income” (p.8-9), it was revealed that the main cause of the Boston Tea Party was the economic revivalry between the American merchants lead by John Hancock and the British East India Company while the latter is just trying to sell its surplus tea at a considerably low price. Although the…

Henry Hudson an English explorer, in 1609 landed on Sandy Hook on behalf of the Dutch, who at the time had the greatest mercantile fleet in the world, however, it was not until 1624 when Dutch colonialist first settled on the island of Manhattan, which was inhabited by various tribes notably the Lenape and Munsee people who belong to the Algonquain family group. The Dutch founded New Amsterdam and before long the sprawling metropolis that is today New York City came to fruition…

Human rights are one of the basic rights that people are born with regardless of their gender, race, religion, nationality, and social status. Nowadays, people take human rights as granted; however, history shows that human rights are earned instead of given. Many bloody and costly conflicts occurred in the past were actually caused by discriminations against race, religion and sex. Without being too sensitive about contentious topics, one has to admit the fact that Africans suffered the most…

The fifteenth trough eighteenth centuries was a time of vast political, social, and cultural changes in world societies, through which the world became more connected, open minded, and free. The political transformations of this time involve revolutionary changes that created growth and opportunities, and spread ideas throughout the world. Although many occurred, the most prevalent of these political changes are the growth of exploration and colonization in the New World, the spread of…

the various reasons in which each country has competed to explore the unknown lands of America. When Europeans discovered the natives this created the start of the Columbian Exchange, this then led the Europeans including the Spanish, English, and Dutch to have various purposes of exploring new land both as a whole and individually, and the following events that had occurred within each country…

examples is the British takeover of India. Indian civilization dates back more than five-thousand years (Culture Grams Online Addition Web) and has a history of oligarchies, split kingdoms, and rebellions. This fragmented state was how British traders found India upon their arrival in 1601. However, the English merchants dreamed not of domination, but trade. Fortunes were made in this new land, but the idea of trade turned into something…

Many explorers, just like Hudson, were sponsored by various people. Some by royalty, some by private companies, etc. Henry Hudson was sponsored by a couple of businesses (private companies) for these voyages. Each of the four voyages Hudson went on in his career were sponsored by either the Muscovy Company or the Dutch East India Company. Henry Hudson went on these expeditions for one main reason. He went to North America looking for the famous trade route to Asia. The…

they are subhuman, deceitful and frivolous beings. This racism further manifests itself when Flory takes Elizabeth to the pwe in order to expose her to Burmese culture and the wonders of the ‘Orient’ that Elizabeth so desired upon embarking for the East; as Elizabeth watches the dance, she looks on with “something approaching horror,” and feels disgusted next to U Po Kyin.8 Given Elizabeth’s Europeanized background and her jealousy for the affluent upper class during her days at boarding school,…