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Dutch East India Company

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1 What type is thing is Dutch East India Company?

2 The ________, founded in 1731

3 A considerable part originated from inhabitants of ________.

4 The ________, founded in 1600

5 The VOC became bankrupt and was formally dissolved in 1800,[4] its possessions and the debt being taken over by the government of the Dutch ________.

6 ________ (1651-1716 Surgeon, Writer)

7 Methods used to maintain the monopoly included the violent suppression of the native population, not stopping short of extortion and ________.

8 During the 16th century, the ________ was dominated by the Portuguese who used Lisbon as a staple port.

9 Dozens of Chinese sugar traders went bankrupt which led to massive unemployment, which in turn led to gangs of unemployed ________.

10 Even more importantly, the ________ temporarily interrupted VOC trade with Europe.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the National Archives of Indonesia holds the largest archive collection related to the Dutch East India Company worldwide?
  • the Mattancherry Palace, known popularly as Dutch Palace, in Kochi, India, was built by the Portuguese and renovated by the Dutch?
  • the island of Hsiao Liuchiu off Taiwan was the scene of a massacre of 300 native inhabitants by Dutch soldiers and allied Formosan warriors in 1636?
  • those villages defeated by the Dutch pacification campaign on Formosa signalled their surrender by sending small betel nut trees to their conquerors?
  • when VOC forces led by Steven van der Hagen captured a Portuguese fort on Ambon in 1605, it was the first territory captured by the Dutch Republic in the East Indies?
  • the Jakarta History Museum was formerly used as the administrative headquarters of the Dutch East India Company?
  • the naval victory of Travancore State over Dutch East India Company in the Battle of Colachel in 1741 is considered the first example of an Asian power defeating a European navy?
  • Reynier van Vlissingen, the Dutch Governor of Negapatam in India, surrendered to British forces in the 1781 Siege of Negapatam because the garrison had only one day of gunpowder remaining?
  • during the history of Pulicat between 1621 and 1665, over 38,000 Indian slaves were obtained by Dutch slave traders and shipped from the Coromandel Coast, mostly to the East Indies?
  • in 1693 Sheikh Yusuf of Makassar, Indonesia, was exiled by the Dutch East India Company to South Africa, where he established the first Muslim community in the Cape?
  • the 1609 Treaty of Antwerp was influenced by the writings of Hugo Grotius in the Mare Liberum, which was published at the insistence of the Dutch East India Company during the course of the treaty negotiations?
  • Jan van Riebeeck established the first vineyards in South Africa to help Dutch East India Company sailors ward off scurvy while traveling the spice route?
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