A Tour of New Netherland Hudson River

If you are looking for a short distance route to Asia to bring the Dutchman to North America, that is a beaver to make them stay. In Europe of the 16th and 17th centuries, the fur was more than just a luxury. Along with the improvement of standard of living, coat with fur, fur collar, fur shawls and scarves were needed. Beaver is particularly valuable because its fur has special features: another layer of short, tight hair beneath a long glossy coat. This layer is made of felt, making various hats and fashion with high warmth and quality.

Russia is the first major supplier of Beaver and other furs. The French found rich Beaver's land in Canada and the Hudson River chart by Henry Hudson. West India Company created a new Netherlands as a way to develop "soft gold" in this area, not as a colony for growth of settlement. During Hudson 's 1609 voyage, many tribal Indians brought animal fur from the three major river systems to the Dutch trading center.

The contract was much bigger than it was generally thought: in the seven years from 1626 to 1632, the Netherlands exchanged 52,584 furs in the Netherlands. Trade made it possible to rapidly change the tribe of this area, to keep it far away and to capture most furs throughout the year to exchange the supplies you need right now . This brings about the collapse of traditional male and female obligations and greater dependence on Europeans.

The Dutch soon learned how to adapt to Indian. We have to prepare various products Indian desires, such as knives, axes, needles, glassware, kettles and thick wool called duffle (now produced in Belgian duffel town). Northern British This is a system that inevitably ends because the Beaver population can not simply satisfy demand, but even if it is often dangerous to be bound by a complex environment, for a while Europeans and Native Americans were involved. Relationship

Although the Netherlands dominated the Hudson River basin from 1609 to 1664, in the short term the Dutch entrepreneurs established a new Netherlands in the Hudson River. The town built the foundation. Today the fortress of Orange is the northernmost outpost of the Netherlands, known today as Albany; New York City was formerly known as New Amsterdam, and the third home base of New Netherlands Wilwick as Kingston today is known. However, unlike Kingston's New York City and Albany, traces of colonization are hard to find and the history of Dutch colonization in New York is quite obvious.

After 1609 explorer British explorer Henry Hudson explored the Hudson River, the Netherlands West India Company (1621) established a new joint venture company in the Hudson River (Hudson River). The river region acquired power of the colonial period and founded New Netherlands. The Netherlands West India Company specializes in trading in the New World and the Netherlands has acquired colonies on the east coast of Brazil, the Caribbean Sea and North America. The company pursued the commercial interests of the New Holland by establishing Swanendael (Lewes) of Fort Orange, Breuckelen, Vlissingen and Delaware. In 1624, the company also established the Netherlands Reformed Church (American Reformation Church) which played an important role in the Netherlands - the United States Community.

After Henry Hudson declared the Hudson Valley as Dutch in 1609, the Netherlands and Native Americans occupied the same land along the Hudson River and then in the Delaware River Basin in North America. The Holland's Dutch colony extends to Albany in the North, Pennsylvania in the West, and now part of Connecticut and Maryland so the Netherlands interacts with several different Native American tribes, sometimes mutually beneficial We are engaged in trade and other full-scale warfare. age