What contributions did the Dutch Empire make to history? How did they stack up against other competing empires, like the French, Portuguese, Spanish, and British? Was there any way for them to hold onto Indonesia post-1945 or was the Japanese Empire the nail in the coffin?
Tl;dr can someone give me a quick rundown of how the Dutch Empire rose, thrived, and fell? They seem pretty underrated considering their contributions to the development of modern capitalism
>>2607627
>contributions
What do people mean when they say this? What's a "contribution to history?"
>>2607710
What was there significance? Did they do something other than meme about international capitalism? Could they have supplanted the influence of the British Empire? What influence did they have on the British becoming free trade capitalists?
>>2607722
>What influence did they have on the British becoming free trade capitalists?
The way the Dutch exploited and extracted cash crops with the Cultivation System inspired the British to try and attain that kind of efficiency in wealth-siphoning from their colonies. The Dutch received so much money from the East Indies that it paid off its national debt and financed the construction of its railways.
In the US 450k African prisoners were imported. Today they stand at 42million in the US. That represents an unheard of growth rate. Remember between 1800-1970 there was virtually no African immigration into the US.
>Inb4 "niggers breed like vermin"
The only problem with that is over 90% of those brought from Africa were men.
What's going on here? It is highly unlikely that colonial era women were getting blacked at all let alone at such a high rate?
Niggers DO breed like vermin though.
>In the US 450k African prisoners were imported
Please provide where you got this number
>>2607608
To be honest I think it was more about male black slaves getting WHITED than whites getting blacked at the time. and you need to realize that it's been 200 years since 1800
They were retards
nice nitpicking barbarian scum
>>2608608
CARTHAGO DELENDA EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEST
>>2607607
Carthage was cool tho
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>>2607545
Hahaha my weanus peanus of course hahaha.
The answer? My weanus peanus! !
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>>2609149
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Does the Civil War occupy the same cultural associations for Amerifats that the First World War does for Europeans, or did it just whet the burgers' appetites?
>>2607533
Looks like the sequel might finally be brewing... urban free trade elites vs rural religious hicks... meanwhile, every sane person trying to stay out of the crossfire
>>2607533
There was certainly an indelible "before/after" effect on both continents, associated with each war. The Civil War is fairly misty in living second-third hand memory by now, though, and the warfare itself wasn't (let me try to find the words) so execrably god-damn evil as that of the Great War was. I think that most /his/ users will understand what I really mean by that even if they nit-pick details.
>>2607533
>the same cultural associations
such as?
The Civil War is half a century older, so you're going to have a completely different conception thanks to memory (which impacts present culture as OP implies) and technology
I'm sure there were similar associations in the 1960s, when muh civil rights and muh states rights collided in the South
>>2607558
The discrepancy in geography and armaments, not to mention a large and functional government in the way, make this very unlikely. But hey there's a cultural civil war in full swing.
Why hasn't northwest Europe ever had a large contiguous empire?
>>2607503
What about the Ancient Doggerland Empire?
>>2607527
Never heard of it.
>>2607531
Basically the Irish people were kings of the entire North Atlantic in 6000 BC but then the (((((Icebergs))))) melted and the water rose and flooded all signs of their high and Atlantis-tier civilization.
So when i was in high school I remember that I used to joke about a lot of people. Most of them were nerds and people who cosplayed and me and some of my friends had really lot of fun by talking to them and "bully" them. You can say I was the bully you saw in those american films 15 years ago. Now it got me thinking is it right in any way to joke about someone just because he acts different from everyone else? I know it sounds stupid and obviously it is not morally acceptable but i still have this doubt. Keep in mind that the guys I joked about were the kind of nerds that instead of being quiet and minding their own business lied about the "cool things they did" and pretty much everyone joked about them because of this.
>>2607385
Well you need to be more specific. Would verbally denigrate them? Would you call them out on their bullshit? Would you threaten them?
>>2607385
I'd also like to ask if it is normal to find it still funny at 23 (my age) or I'm being childish without realizing it
Bullying on an individual level is wrong, and you probably live a sad life if you do it, but its still necessary.
Why were the Europeans the ones who discovered the world and not the world that discovered Europe?
Indigenous Americans were basically a Stone Age people by the time Columbus and other explorers got there. It must be hard to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a canoe.
there is essentially no point to technological progress if you live in a warm climate
>>2607364
European is such a broad term. Only the British, French, Spanish, Dutch and Portuguese did the discovering.
All other Europeans didn't do shit.
>Be Phoenician
>invent and spread alphabet
>colonize the Mediterranean before anyone else did it, literally first maritime league ever
>first globalized world ever
>get destroyed and forgotten forever
What a shame
>>2607283
>get destroyed
>forgotten forever
As it should be.
Losers.
>>2607283
>get destroyed
As does everyone eventually.
>and forgotten forever
But... you're talking about them...
>>2607283
Most of the Phoenicians were alright. Just don't gone to Carthago tomorrow.
>Be japanese
>live on a tiny island
>become civilized hundreds of years after your neighbours
>have all your culture be a copy of Chinese culture
>have meaningless wars over pity feudal disputes for almost a millennium
>only reason mongols didn't invade was because you where lucky enough to have them hit by a large wave
>didn't bother to try and do a major invasion again because your island is so insignificant
>have shitty resourches so you invent the most overrated weapon of all time: the Katana
>your warlords sells part of your population to portugese merchants who then sells them as slaves to African warlords
>stay in the medieval era all the way to the mid 19th century because you isolate yourself like an autist because reasons
>Industrialize
>pretty much copy western culture the same way you copied chinese
>get forced to end your isolation and trade with the rest of the world because the americans parked four scary looking ships in one of your ports
>wage a meaningless war against your former feudal warlords that chimped out because of industrialization
>win a meaningless war against russians because of sheer luck
>some years later
>start to attack your neigbhourse when they are weak because of civil wars
>attack european colonies when they have their troops fighting in europe
>think you are creating a great empire
>get hybris and attack America
>oh shit they aren't weak like our neighbours
>don't have enough resourches because nobody wants to trade with you anymore
>literally have to send young men on suicide missions
>can't feed your own armies
>get your ass kicked by america
>surrenders
>Emperor rejects his divinity, pretty much proving that millions of you people died for nothing
>stil worship him like little sheeps
>don't have any military so they are an american protectorate instead
>make cartoons for autistic manchildren
>work like ants
>males are too beta to have a gf so they have fake viritual gfs
tfw you realize japanese are the KANGZ of East Asia
Because people are attracted to the Zen-style aesthetics of certain aspects of the culture and the ways in which the history both mirrors and differs from European history.
But yeah, I don't even know what the fuck the point of the Russo-Japanese war was. What did the Japanese gain other than bragging rights and some bare land? Did they gain anything worth 50,000 or so dead Japanese boys?
It's overrated because everyone forgets the Heian period like you did
>Noah, 314 BC
that image isn't *#@!ing funny.
>>2607097
>Pythagora
>126 bc
I, Cody Hebel, located in Gainesville, Florida have found the answer to life.
The answer to life; is perspective, from the vagueness of perspective, you can go deeper into attitude, love (which doesn't pay the bills) and into the survival aspects of life.
Perspective is vague and solves all issues. Internal and then manifested into the solving of external issues.
Corporate start up job said no philosophy in the workplace, should I quit?
I thought the answer to life, the universe and everything was 42.
>>2607096
42 is the key to perspective. Perspective leads to math, math leads to undeniable truth.
Here's a pic of me and my friends doing fancy Thursday for my friends birthday who showed me 4chan. He browsed /k/ and moar.
Why? Because I believe that I disserve credit for my findings.
Be Mussolini
>introduce welfare and other social programs for the good of your people
>be backed by notable artists and architects who give your regime a distinct and memorable aesthetic
>have the support of the catholic church despite being an atheist
>have your entire reputation ruined because you allied with an idiot who stole your ideology
Be Hitler
>corrupt Mussolini's ideology with racism, nationalism, imperialism and anti-semitism
>refuse to pay taxes
>conduct regular purges in your government for no reason other then to satisfy your corrupt corporate backers
>be a failed artist who makes sure his regime kicks out every single good or forward thinking artist in your country and end up having one of the shittiest aesthetics of the century
>fail to receive the support of the catholic church despite you being a catholic yourself
>start the worst war in human history because of your ridiculous expansionist fantasy
>give land to a regime that you say is evil and jew controlled
>fuck up a bunch of times by not listening to your generals which causes you to lose the war
>commit suicide after you lost the war and put most of eastern europe and part of your own nation under communism
>have a small penis
Il duce should've stick to the socialism desu.
>>2607115
This to be honest. It seems like a lot of people distanced themselves from Communism because the Russians fucked it up.
>>2607058
Aside from Mussolini also being expansionist (and, in fact, the promise of said expansionism holding him in power), this was surprisingly accurrate. Particularly aesthetics-wise.
>You'll never be a young Italian architect sent to Asmara
*builds your path*
>>2607028
ooga booga we wuzz civilization and shieeeet where da white wimminz at
*walks the yellowbrick road*
*flees your path*
*rides up and dow your lines*
> *yells "LONG LIVE ENGLAND!!!!" in French*
>>2607024
*jumps off boat*
"BY GOD"S CALVES!"
>>2607537
>in French*
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Not in French BUT in ANGLO-NORMAN french