VOC and WIC

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Today's plan

Instruction chapter 3.2 A world economy

Explanation formative assignment

Online workbook

Freshen up your memory

Up next... 

a few quiz questions to freshen up your memory. 

You get 20 seconds to answers the question. 

It is multiple choice. 

Wrong answers? You need to pay attention to this :)

In the Dutch Republic every province was ruled by....

1. The States General
2. The Provincial States
3. One Stadtholder
4. The Regenten

What did the Regenten do?

1. The daily government of the Republic
2. Something political
3. The Regenten were the Dutch government
4. The daily government of the Provinces

When the Provinces worked together the .... would meet.
What is the missing word?

1. States General
2. Regenten
3. Stadtholders
4. Grand Pensionary

The Dutch Republic was at war...
against which country?

1. Belgium
2. Germany
3. Spain
4. France

What wanted the Spanish to block with "embargoes"?

1. The VOC
2. The Protestant church
3. Trade with the Spanish and Portugese trading posts in the East.
4. The Baltic trade

Amsterdam became a commercial centre. Goods were stored in warehouses, eventually these goods were sold for the higest price possible.

Eventough there was a war, the Dutch republic became a wealthy country.

VOC

The VOC

States General joined all small trading companies into the Dutch East India Company in 1602.

The First multinational

Monopoly on the spice trade with the East Indies

Match the correct products the VOC traded in.

Pepper

Nutmeg

Cinnamon

Tea

Rights of the VOC

The States General gave the VOC the rights to:

• Wage war
• Take and execute prisoners
• Invade land in the East to make it into a colony
• Set up trading posts

The WIC

Dutch West Indian Company, established in 1621.

Reaction to the Spanish embargo.

WIC was allowed to capture and destroy the Spanish silverfleet

This is called privateering.

Triangulair trade. Africa - South America - Europe

Formative assignment

Imagine you would like to sell your map to the people of the VOC and WIC. So.... make your map look so realistic as possible!

Make a map with the sea routes:

Draw or print a world map (you can search for a "blinde kaart.") Then you will draw the trade routes of the WIC and VOC in that map. You can work alone or in pairs. Make clear which company used which route.

Deadline: Tuesday 19 January 2021. You will hand in your map on paper!