EARLY EUROPEAN VOYAGES
Copy this page into your History folder, and save your finished work there.
If you are working in pairs, write both partners’ names here:
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Go to the following website, and use the information to answer the questions.
Website: http://library.thinkquest.org/26488/en/index.html
1. What is the English name for the VOC?
2. When was it founded?
3. What did it do?
Click on Golden Age
4. What did all this give the Dutch?
5. Name one important Dutchman during this time.
Click on Origins
6. Who monopolised sea trade with Asia?
7. List TWO things the Dutch gained from merchants.
Click on Flourishing Period
8. How many did they employ in 1750?
Click on On Board
9. List TWO diseases the sailors suffered from.
10. Why were sailers “fined for relieving themselves in inappropriate places.”
11. Describe Keelhauling.
Click on Cargo
12. List TWO precious metals.
13. List TWO trading goods.
14. List TWO consumer goods
15. Why did they carry canon as ballast?
Click on Ranks
16. Identify an important rank on board
17. Identify an unimportant rank on board
18. Identify an important sort of craftsman on board.
Click on Food
19. Why was food supply limited?
20. What problems did this create?
21. Why did they have to clench their teeth to drink water?
Click on Entertainment
22. What was the “Devil’s picture Book”?
23. What was allowed only during the daytime?
24. What happened when they passed the Scilly Isles
Click on Routes to Asia
25. What was the compulsory route to Asia called?
26. What did the ships have to avoid?
27. On what did the exact route depend?
28. Show the route of the journey. (click on the map)
Click on Navigation
29. List THREE tools for navigation
30. Identify ONE problem in accurate navigation.
Click on Stopover
31. Where did they stopover?
32. What did they get from this?
Click on Accidents
33. What happened to the Batavia?
Click on Trade
34. Who worked on nutmeg plantations?
35. How did they stop smuggling?
Extension:
1. Write a paragraph describing life on board ship.
2. Write a paragraph evaluating the impact the Dutch had on their trading partners.
Then go to: http://www.bataviawerf.nl/en/batavia_virtueel.html