Dutch Empire

• The Dutch Empire

• Dutch Social Relations

The Dutch Empire• The Dutch colony near the Hudson

River was a small enterprise in a wealthy and ambitious empire that developed fast. In the early 17th

century , the Netherlands merged as an economic and military experts with its small population of 1.5 million people. The Dutch dominated the carrying trade of northern and western Europe, the North Seas fishing, and Arctic whaling. The great Dutch city of Amsterdam was the main shipping, banking, insurance, printing, and textile manufacturing center in all northern Europe.

Dutch Social Relations• In the early and middle 17th century, the

Dutch had stolen the Portuguese primary imperial commerce: the export in sugar from American plantations and the transportations of slaves from West Africa to cultivate sugar. In 1637, the Dutch captured Elmina Castle, the main Portuguese trading post on the west coast of Africa. During 1630’s, the Dutch dominated northeast of Portuguese Brazil, prime sugar producing colony. The Dutch was able to spread themselves in violent matters and by the mid-centuries they were facing attacks from their formal allies against Spain, French, and English.