The Dutch Reformed Church and Catholic Church maintained robust ties with former colonies due to their extensive missionary activities during the colonial era. The academic study of Islam has deep roots in Dutch universities, shaped by historical connections with Indonesia, the world’s most populous ...
The term “Dutch Colonial” can also be used to describe the period of Dutch colonial rule, which lasted from the 17th to the mid-20th century, depending on the specific region. During this time, the Dutch established colonies, trading posts, and settlements in various parts of the world, ...
7 Failed North American Colonies Deadly mistakes doomed these early European settlements. Read more What School Was Like in the 13 Colonies Standards of education varied widely, and corporal punishment was the norm. Read more America’s Forgotten Swedish Colony For nearly 20 years in the 17th cent...
The braadpan (frying pan) made of gietijzer (cast iron) was a Dutch invention that made its way into the early North American colonies. Especially on the trails westwards, it was a popular cooking utensil. It was so popular, in fact, that the cast iron Dutch oven was declared as the...
By locating early modern European political, military, and territorial debates in writings from New England and New Netherland, this project suggests that the histories and cultures of European colonies in the Western hemisphere and their European mother countries in the seventeenth century are more ...
Dutch and British forces again went to war in 1780, nearly a century after the last conflict, just as the latter's war against its American colonies was winding down. Much had changed in the century since the last war. The Netherlands, in particular, was on the decline, even as the ...
American Archaeology Uncovers the Dutch Colonies European coins were scarce in North America If someone dropped a coin, they looked hard fori hut archaeologists still do A local minister wrote that, while he slept in his bed one night, eightNative Americans slept on the floor at 24- ... LM...
Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles, former West IndiesThe Dutch colonies in the West comprised both islands and parts of the mainland of the South American continent. Suriname, on the north-eastern coast of South America, came under Dutch rule in the late seventeenth century. The majority of...
Many emigrated to the American colonies and elsewhere, seeking religious freedom. Occasionally those groups would locate in close proximity and intermarry, but not marry outside of other Anabaptist denominations. Native American (Indigenous) People –all indigenous peoples found in North and South ...
The company also established several colonies in the West Indies andGuyanabetween 1634 and 1648, includingAruba,Curaçao, andSaint Martin, but later lost many of them to the French. The Dutch colony inNorth America, New Netherland (renamedNew Yorkin the mid-1660s), became a province of the...