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One of the most influential Dutch seafarers circa 1650s that was analyzed in the slides.
Who was Abel Tasman?
The company that was established to challenge the Portuguese’s position in the Asian trade
What is the Dutch East India Company (VOC)?
A famous invention later used to look at the stars but was first used to navigate and create maps.
What is a telescope?
The unexpected place where people live in the Netherlands today.
What are floating houses?
Who Abel Tasman worked for.
What is the Dutch East India Company?
The people who founded the Dutch East India Company
Who are wealthy Dutch merchants?
The ship invented by the Dutch developed in the late 1500s.
What are Fluyts?
The Dutch East India Company was the first company to be granted this in Asia and it lasted 21 years.
What is a monopoly?
The places Abel Tasman discovered.
What are New Zealand and Tasmania?
What was the Dutch East India Company the first to do?
Who was the first company to sell shares of thier company to the public?
Abraham Ortelius created what is considered to be the first of these known as the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.
What is a modern atlas?
The percent of the Netherlands that is water.
What is 20% of the Netherlands?
The year when Abel Tasman passed away.
What is 1659?
The important point or the trade route the Dutch East India Company controlled that were both mentioned in the presentation.
What are Batavia (Jakarta)/the Moluccas? (ONE of the answers is enough)
The way that ships on the Øresund strait were taxed by Denmark until 1669 which caused the creation of a new Dutch ships.
What was taxation based on the area of the ship’s deck?
The company the presentation compares to the Dutch East India Company, ASML (Advanced Semiconductor Materials Lithography) hold this position by market cap.
What is the 28th most valuable company?
The place Abel Tasman was trying to find in his SECOND voyage.
What was a sea passage (from Batavia to Chile)?
One of the competitive advantages the Dutch East India Company had over the Portuguese and Spanish.
What did not being controlled by a monarchy/having independent political and military power do for the Dutch East India Company? (ONE of these answers is enough)
The skilled Dutch glassmaker who created the first telescope.
Who was Hans Lippershey?
This is the meaning of ASML.
What is Advanced Semiconductor Materials Lithography?