Dutch East India Company

This is the story of one of many different explorers. His name is Henry Hudson, he started around the same time of many other explores. That time period was called The Age Of Discovery also known as The Age Of Exploration. Henry Hudson was trusted by two different sponsors. Henry Hudson went on more than two voyages though.Hudson had many more expeditions with his own crew then he did with someone else running the ship. Before we go into the exploration of Henry Hudson let's talk about his…

the East India Company paid an ad valorem tax of about approximately 25% on tea that it imported into Great Britain. In addition the ad valorem, Parliament laid additional taxes on tea sold for consumption in Britain. The extremely high taxes, combined with the fact that tea imported into Holland was not taxed by the Dutch government, meant that British American's could acquire bootlegged tea at a much better rate. The biggest market for the contraband tea was England. By the 1760s the East…

In his book Vermeer’s Hat: the seventeenth century and dawn of the global world, historian Timothy Brook explores the roots of world trade in the seventeenth century by analyzing six paintings by the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. The book has its primary focus on ties between Europe and the rest of the world and the growing Chinese impact on the world during the age of innovation and improvisation. Brook argues that globalization, which is believed to have begun in the twentieth and…

In December 16, 1773, 342 chests of tea that belonged to the British East India Company were dump into the Boston Harbor by American patriots who disguised themselves as Mohawk Indians. The American patriots were objecting tax on tea, that is, taxation without representation and the perceived East India Company’s monopoly. The Townshend Acts passed in 1767 by Parliament imposed duties on various imported products but they raised a big storm of non-compliance and colonial protest. The Boston…

thorough knowledge of East Asian history and culture with a focus on visual and material culture. My academic interests center on cross-cultural interactions during the early modern period manifested in visual and material culture. I am particularly interested in the relationship, fostered by trade, between China, Japan and the Netherlands. During the seventeenth and eighteenth century, Dutch society experienced a dramatic transformation with the establishment of the…

The Early Seventeenth Century of the English East India Company in the Spice Archipelago The English Company's first interest lay in the Malay Archipelago and the Spice islands, although from the start it faced considerable competition from Dutch merchants. The fleet of the first voyage (1600) visited Acheen in Sumatra and Bantam in Java; in both places the commander, James Lancaster, obtained permission to trade and to establish a factory. He also visits the Moluccas. The fleet of the second…

In the years roughly between 1600 and 1950, the British used the foreign land of India to their advantage. These were the years of British Empire and expansion. The use imperialistic powers to benefit economically, politically, and geographically began with the British East India Company in the early 1600s where the land was used for spice trade and provided as a trading post for both British, Dutch and other settling imperialists at the next 100 years.. As time went on, the land was beginning…

In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue. His many voyages paved the way for European exploration. But did Columbus really discover the Americas on his own? No, it is known that millions of people lived in the Americas before Columbus. For most of human history, archaeologists have found modern humans originating from Africa about 400,000 years ago (Of The People, 4). During the last ice age, glaciers expanded that the sea level dropped and created a land bridge between Siberia in Asia and Alaska…

discovery and developed over time. No one knew where the camellia sinensis, which is a tea plant, originated, however tea was consumed by tribal people in the south-east Asian jungles such as in Thailand, the eastern Himalayas, and Burma…

of May1773 was enacted for the purpose of providing economic aid to the East India Company. High import fees led to the smuggling of non-Britain goods (Dutch tea) which subsequently resulted in the East India Company going into debt and holding a big surplus of tea that no one would buy. Since Britain needed this company they were given a loan and the cancelled the import fees. As a result the tea from the East India Company would be cheaper than the smuggled tea. This infuriated radical…