Life – a user's manual Part II - Boksidan

English, French and Dutch conquerors took islands in the Caribbean Sea from the Spaniards (some Spanish
islands had already been emptied of people to get slaves to their projects and on others they had died of in
diseases). On the North American mainland Englishmen started settlements in Virginia and New England,
the French did the same in Quebec and Louisiana and the Dutch in what they called New Netherlands.
Figure 4. The larger nations that existed in fairly orderly form in 1600 and still do (besides Ethiopia and Thailand),
and their approximate borders at that time.
After the British victory over the Spanish Armada in 1588, they broke the Portuguese and Spanish
domination on the seas. 1612 their monopoly of trade with India also was broken, when the British East
India company 1 defeat of the Portuguese in India.
But it was the Dutch who dominated the East India trade during the 1600s. Because they built simple long
and narrow sailing vessels with plenty of cargo space and they could sail long distances without going to
port. Though both English and Dutch trading posts were built India in the 1600s.
At the beginning of the 1700s the English and the Scots chosed to merge into one nation (the UK) and they
took the lead in the further colonization. But China also expanded and conquered Mongolia, Tibet and
Nepal.
1. The early western colonization was operated as semi-public/semi-private companies. Columbus voyage to America
was funded by Italian investors and the early English, French and Dutch colonizers were private companies (trading
companies, like East India Company).
Japan
England
Spain
China
Port./Spain.
Turkey
Iran
France
Russia
Sweden
Denmark
Netherland
Austria
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