The History of the World Podcast, written and presented by Chris Hasler.

This is the history of the world Podcast with me Chris Hasler and this is a special

episode on the colony of New Netherlands for History of the World Podcast, Illuminati member Ian Van Alphan. Oh, yeah. Oh, At the beginning of the 17th century global exploration was a major political

activity for the wealthiest European nations who were encouraging

enterprise in order to bring the riches of newly discovered lands back to their own nations.

The Dutch were happy to let their wealthiest entrepreneurs take advantage of the opportunities to fund their own private

ventures and so private companies were set up in order to organize the investments and

distribute it effectively.

The company favoured by the Dutch government was the Dutch East India Company, which was

granted a monopoly on Asian trade activity and so private investors

would be invited to buy shares in the company in what was quite an unprecedented business practice at the time.

The company became so powerful as a consequence that it developed the political power of a nation in its own right.

For the Dutch East India Company, one of the most important strategies

was to find the Northeast Passage, the Arctic Sea route to the Far East,

which had been searched for for many decades and especially by a great rival of the Dutch in terms of global exploration, the English.

One English Sea explorer called Henry Hudson had attempted to sail along the north coast of Russia

thanks to the investment of English trading companies.

But Hudson came back to England unsuccessfully with storage of large barriers of ice preventing

safe passage.

It's possible that Hudson fell out of favour as the right sailor to get the job done,

but the Dutch East India Company were willing to invest in him

and so Hudson took advantage of the new opportunity to fulfil his ambitions with them.

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