Jan Van Riebeeck - The History of South Africa
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ก.ค. 2023
- Jan van Riebeeck, a Dutch explorer and merchant who played a significant role in the colonization of the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. Jan van Riebeeck was born in 1619 in the Netherlands and joined the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in 1639. The VOC was one of the most powerful trading companies in the world at the time, with a monopoly on Dutch trade in Asia. His story starts a massive chapter in the history of South Africa
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Are there any descendants of Van Riebeeck in South Africa today..??
Also, western history books like Portuguese, Dutch, British say it was the spice trade that led them to venture out. This is hard to believe once you delve further eg, if Europians imported spices in large quantities for them to establish those trading companies, then today or 100, 200 years ago spices would have been widely used in everyday cuisine in Europe. There would have been old recipe books showing spice use back then by ordinary people. I think it was more to do with the quest for gold, silver and precious stones. Its like the 'flat earth' story - before Columbus and da Gama's sailings to the New World. The true fact was that early European navigators did not know how to calculate Latitude, which is necessary for ocean crossings. It was only the Arabs in the Indian Ocean and some Polynesians in the Pacific who knew the art of Latitude calculation for many centuries.
Gold and Witwatersrand was definitely the reason why the English went into the Boer Republics and declared war etc.
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The VOC was created in 1602 and sailors sailing around CT to the East died about 50% because of scurvy. So they established a trading post to farm vegetables and meat for sailors which led to Free Burghers (citizens) deciding to stay and live in what turned into colony. Dutch had numerous trading posts all over the world, but not all turned into colonies for varius reasons. Only in 1880 did Europeans colonize Africa to get minerals when they saw the diamonds England were getting out of the Kimberly open shaft mine. There are some exceptions concerning other continents but in general this didnt happen, certainly not in Africa. The medical science wasnt close to developing something for malaria. Small pocks only got cured in 1780s and Rabbies in 1880s after which medical sciences boomed after the rabbies cure.
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It was not good 😂