Simply put: trade. The few small colonies they set up (later New York one of them) were basically trading posts. Fur was the thing they were most after, just like the French and English elsewhere. Keeping up those 'colonies' turned out to cost more than the fur trade generated in income. The Dutch were therefore far from unhappy when a peace treaty with the English legalized the earlier English conquest of New Amsterdam, but offered the Dutch Surinam in return with its possibilities for setting up very profitable sugar plantations.
The Dutch saw them as trading partners. . The Dutch were not interested in converting them.
The French and the Dutch each made alliances with Native American peoples.
The French and the Dutch each made alliances with Native American peoples.
Well the Dutch actually made peace with them and traded with them.. They could have done that.
The Dutch bought Manhattan island because, the Dutch were scared that the American Indians might attack the settlers.cool that why
Dutch Peoples-Union was created in 1971.
'Jesus is coming' is in Dutch 'Jezus komt eraan'.
The Dutch saw them as trading partners. . The Dutch were not interested in converting them.
The Dutch saw them as trading partners. . The Dutch were not interested in converting them.
The Dutch saw them as trading partners. . The Dutch were not interested in converting them.
The French and the Dutch each made alliances with Native American peoples.
"Anschluss" was the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany directly prior to WWII. The reasoning behind it was due to "pan-German" ideology, i.e. a belief that promoted the unification of the Germanic peoples (i.e. Germans, Austrians, Dutch, English, Scandinavians, etc...) under a single empire.
The Dutch immigrated to North America for a better life. Also to find good farmland.
The Dutch immigrated to North America for a better life. Also to find good farmland.
The French and the Dutch each made alliances with Native American peoples.
Dutch exploration and colonization in the 17th century was driven by a desire to establish trade routes and gain access to valuable resources in Asia, Africa, and the Americas. The Dutch East India Company, one of the most successful trading companies at the time, played a significant role in expanding Dutch influence globally. Economic interests, competition with other European powers, and a quest for wealth and power were key motivations behind Dutch expansionism.
Peoples who had come from Africa are called Afrikaners were descendants of Boers who in turn were descendants of Dutch settlers who come from Holland