However, from there on the fortunes of the VOC started to decline. Five major problems, not all of equal weight, can be used to explain its decline in the next fifty years to 1780.There was a steady e ...
Further information: Spice tradeA bond issued by the Dutch East India Company, dating from 7 November 1623, for the amount of 2,400 florinsDuring the 16th century, the spice trade was dominated by the ...
Exploration of these regions by European powers first began in the late 15th century and early 16th century, led by the Portuguese explorers. The Portuguese described the entire region they discovered ...
Emanuel Bowen (1694?–1767) was an English map engraver, who worked for George II of England and Louis XV of France as a geographerAn 18th-century map and print seller, who worked in London from about ...
Thévenot came from a family of royal office holders (nobles of the robe), which partly explains his wealth. He was reputed to speak English, Greek, Latin, Hebrew, and several oriental languages, incl ...
In 1620 he became a doctor of law but he joined the work of his father. In 1635 they published the Atlas Novus (full title: Theatrum orbis terrarum, sive, Atlas novus) in two volumes. Joan and his bro ...
Citizenship status, under social contract theory, carries with it both rights and responsibilities. In this sense, citizenship was described as "a bundle of rights -- primarily, political participatio ...
Citizenship is the status of a person recognized under the custom or law of a state that bestows on that person (called a citizen) the rights and the duties of citizenship. That may include the right ...
In 2008, oil, gas and coal generated about 69 percent of New Zealand's gross energy supply while 31% was generated from renewable energy, primarily hydroelectric power and geothermal power. New Zealan ...
New Zealand is located near the centre of the water hemisphere and is made up of two main islands and a number of smaller islands. The two main islands (the North Island, or Te Ika-a-Māui, and the So ...
Main articles: Foreign relations of New Zealand and New Zealand Defence ForceAnzac Day service at the National War MemorialEarly colonial New Zealand allowed the British Government to determine extern ...
New Zealand is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary democracy, although its constitution is not codified. Elizabeth II is the Queen of New Zealand and the head of state. The Queen is represe ...
Abel Tasman was born in 1603 in Lutjegast in what is now the province of Groningen, the Netherlands. In 1633, Tasman went to Batavia in service of the VOC; four years later he was back in Amsterdam. T ...
The first known European explorer to visit the region was the Dutch Willem Janszoon (whose name is also written as Jansz) in his 1606 voyage. His fellow countryman, Jan Carstenszoon (or Carstensz), vi ...
Pieter de Carpentier (19 February 1586 – 5 September 1659) was a Dutch, or Flemish, administrator of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) who served as Governor-General there from 1623 to 1627. The Gul ...
