Why didnt they make more of an effort to keep australia, new zealand and all the other polynesian islands they discovered?
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Why didnt they make more of an effort to keep australia, new zealand and all the other polynesian islands they discovered?
Too busy having their sailors waterboarding other sailors from other companies.
The Dutch East India company was worth the equivalent of 8 trillion USD at their peak
Australias nominal GDP, even today, is barely 1.5 trillion USD
They made no effort to hold onto them because they were never that profitable.
>sell nutmeg
>become most powerful entity on the planet
I still dont get it, how in the frick can seasonings be that profitable. Even cocaine or alcohol prohibition never saw that kind of money
Because they were a front for the Dutch crown. Dutch citizens invested heavily into the company to support the Netherlands' expeditionary efforts, and a ROI was their main incentive for doing so. Consider all the companies around today that make billions just moving around pieces of plastic.
>Consider all the companies around today that make billions just moving around pieces of plastic.
There are some that maje their wealth by own everything in an area like the Irving family in Atlantic Canada.
>Because they were a front for the Dutch crown.
There was no Dutch crown at that point.
They lost to literally chinese pirates and can't even conquer neighboring malay microstates like aceh and johor, all they did was kneelling to japan/persia/mughal/china for gibs. also siege of maccau 1622.
The Dutch were an artificial seapower state; after De Witt was killed (and eaten) it ended because the Dutch as a seapower only existed at the expense of completely neglecting their defence by land.
>australia, new zealand and all the other polynesian islands they discovered?
All of them were already discovered by Iberians before the Dutch.
>*does nothing with pacifix ocean holdings other than daydream about conquering the ming*
iberianx moment
what did the dutch do with their pacific holding?
Calm down, anon, there's no shame in admitting the iberianx of the time were more worried about native american revolts than they were about that heckin epic chonkers conquest of ming china they were 100% going to follow through on
>conquering the ming
But they did
>Economic shocks due to the arrival of Spanish-American silver in China were among the factors that led to the end of the Ming dynasty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manila_galleon
This is pathetic levels of cope lol, panchitos really be thinking an event that indirectly lead to a foreign nation's conquest by another foreign power was "actually" a victory for spain lmao
You're the one who started this. Nobody care about Ming China who was less relevant than even Switzerland.
If that was the case why did spain never conquer it? why do you have to resort to bizarre cope about silver extraction in the americas more or less means spain "won" against ming china?
unironic mental illness, probably be ranting about how spain won ww2 because fdr's maternal great-great-grandmother was spanish lol
no but we did won the marne and crushed austria-hungarian empire 🙂
Take it easy anon
>Australia
Frick all. And too low of a pop to settle them.
>New Zealand
Frick all. And too low of a pop to settle them.
You realize that life isn't some moronic paradox game right? Or do you enjoy being a massive fricking moron online?
more like why didn't the spanish a century before
They discovered Western Australia, Northern Territory, and northern Queensland, i.e. the shit parts of Australia that nobody wants to live in. New South Wales and Victoria were completely unknown to them.