page_title: The evolution of the Dutch Empire
section_title: The global revolutionary of the Dutch Empire
hierarchical_section_title: The evolution of the Dutch Empire / The global revolutionary of the Dutch Empire
caption_attribution_description: English: Dutch East India Company Merchant Ship
context_page_description: The Dutch Empire is a term comprising different territories that were controlled by Netherlands from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. They settled outside Europe, they had skills in trade and transport. In the late sixteenth century, the Netherlands took back their lead at sea, and by the second half of the seventeenth century their cultural and economy rose to dominate the sea. These two hundred years were called the Golden Age. The Dutch built their empire with corporate colonialism by conducting the East Indies and the West Indies companies, following the British Empire footsteps, which led to war between both empires. All Dutch sailors and merchants were part of the voyages that explored around the world. After the French Revolutionary Wars, Netherlands lost most of its power to the British after the French armies invaded Holland and parts of the Dutch colonies. So, the Dutch leaders had to defend their colonies and homeland.
context_section_description: The Dutch Colonial Empire survived for three and a half centuries. They controlled parts of the global trade by plantation islands. The Naval Warfare, on the other hand, was controversial. This period of 1800, was the beginning of a new revolutionary world from the American Revolution to the French Revolution. These revolutions had an impact on the European political, cultural and scientific revolution. The political revolutions resulted in the intellectual and the cultural uprise in Europe which gave this period the name "Enlightenment". Due to the Enlightenment thinking and scientific revolution in Europe, the western economy was able to develop faster than the rest of the world. Therefore, the consequences of this world's revolutions were the beginning of the modern imperialism and the rise of the colonial states. Essentially this led to the rise of the Dutch Colonial Empire. The Dutch Colonial Empire lasted for three and a half centuries, both in the east and west of the globe. The majority of the Dutch Empire economy was concentrated on the East Indies and only a small part of their focus was on the West Indies. In the decades after 1880, Netherlands started losing most of its position in Asia, while Great Britain managed to become the undisputed powerful country that took over most of the Dutch East India Company. For that reason, the Dutch East India trade had weakened, and the British took control of Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean.
caption: East India Company Ship
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