Second Stage Colonisation 1600-1800 History 103/103 G
Second Stage Colonisation 1600-1800 The Rise of the North Atlantic (or the Decline of Spain) The Dutch Revolt (1566-1648) The Dutch East Indies (and the wreck of the Batavia, 1629) The Dutch/English/French Atlantic English North America: plantations of confessional culture Britain and France in the Pacific (and Terra Australis Incognita)
Four aspects of this transition National: from Portugal, Spain and Italy to the Netherlands, Britain and France. Seas: from the Mediterranean to the North and Baltic. Oceans: from the Atlantic to the Indian and Pacific. Empires/colonies: 1) for extraction; 2) for trade; 3) of settlement; 4) penal.
The Political Divisions of Europe in the Sixteenth Century
England and the Netherlands, c. 1648
The Dutch Empire at its Height Around 1688
The Route of the Batavia
Routes of Explorers from Magellan to Roggeveen
The Voyages of Tasman and Dampier
European Colonial Empires c.1750
European Settlement in North America.
British Voyages in the South Pacific, 1699-1775
The British Empire in 1815