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The Evolution of The Dutch Empire

A brief summary: The Dutch Empire is called after 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. The Dutch built the corporate colonialism with the Dutch East India Company, following the British. All Dutch sailors and merchants were part of the voyages that explored around the world. In the sixteenth and the seventeenth century, [|the Dutch naval] rose and dominated the sea, these two hundred years were called [|the Dutch Golden Age]. After the Revolutionary Wars, Netherlands lost most of its power to the British when Holland fell to the French armies.

Sources/Refrences:
 * https://www.academia.edu/1885142/The_Dutch_Empire._An_Essential_Part_of_World_History
 * http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Dutch_Empire#Colonies
 * https://www.academia.edu/37365882/M.T.J._Vrenken_2014_The_Dutch_East_India_Company_1602-1795_-_its_rise_evolution_decline_and_legacy_of_empire_in_Asia
 * https://www.academia.edu/28231981/The_Economic_Historiography_of_the_Dutch_Colonial_Empire
 * https://www.academia.edu/10350576/_The_Dutch_and_the_Portuguese_in_West_Africa_Empire_Building_and_Atlantic_System_1580-1674_PhD_Dissertation_Department_of_History_Leiden_University_The_Netherlands_2009_