Because A BOOK was then the Dutch could reach the archipelago and to the occupation of this rich earth for centuries? The book was titled Itinerario naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien, written by Jan Huygen van Linshoten in the year 1595. This is her story:
Long before Europe opened his eyes to find a new world, the indigenous residents nationwide live in peace. This situation changed dramatically when the Europeans began to arrive on the pretext of trade, but to bring combat troops equipped with weapons. It is ironic, a character who drives the wheels of world history into the pools of blood are two different popes. First, Pope Urban II, who waged a crusade to capture Jerusalem in the Council of Clermont in 1096. And second, Pope Alexander VI.
Crusade has unwittingly opened the eyes of Europeans about the civilization that is far superior than them. Europe experienced enlightenment due to contact with the people of Islam in this Crusade. It is a fact if long before dared to sail the oceans of Europe, Arab nations have been known worldwide as the intrepid traders who used to sail the ocean to the archipelago.
Even camphor which is one of the main substances in the ritual of embalming the Pharaoh in Egypt in the centuries before Christ, brought in from a small village called Barus, who was in the middle of the west coast of Sumatra. From this meeting of European civilization to know if there is one area in the south of the globe is very rich with natural resources, which do not exist anywhere in the world.
The country was filled with rubber, pepper and other spices, but it also smelled a European gold and precious stones that are stored in the stomach. The land is very friendly climate, and nature is very beautiful. This region we now know the name of the archipelago. Hearing all this wealth of Europe is very eager to find all the things that has not ever gotten.
Pope Alexander VI in 1494 to provide a formal mandate to the Catholic church to the Kingdom of Portugal and Spain via the Treaty of Tordesillas. With this agreement, Pope Alexander with arbitrarily divide the world outside of mainland Europe into two lots to annexed. Tordesilas demarcation line in the agreement that followed the circle of latitude of the Cape Verde Islands, beyond the two poles of the earth. It gives the New World is now called the Americas to Spain. Africa and India handed over to Portuguese.
Pope shifts the demarcation line to the east as far as 1170 kilometers from the Cape Verde Islands. Brazil also fell into the hands of Portuguese. Line robbery Europeans eastward far into the archipelago was divided into two. Spanish and Portuguese sailed to the West to the East, the two finally met in the Moluccas, the Banda Sea. Previously, if two competing power center to reproduce exactly the treasure robbery met at one point then they will fight, but when met at the Moluccas, the Portuguese and Sanyol try to refrain.
On September 5, 1494, Spain and Portugal made a pact that sets Saragossa anti-meridian lines or line connection on the half circle that went on line 1170 miles from Cape Verde. The line was located in the east of the Moluccas, in the vicinity of Guam.
Since then, Portugal and Spain managed to bring a lot of spice from the voyage. The whole of Europe to hear it and start vying to also send its fleet into new territory in the south.
When Europeans send a naval expedition to discover a new world, the understanding between trade, warfare, and the spread of Christianity there was hardly any difference.The mission of European imperialism was until now known as the "Three G": Gold, Glory, Gospel. All the rulers, kings, traders, that is in Europe talking about a very rich country south of this highway.
They are vying to reach the archipelago of the various channels. Unfortunately, it was not there a map of sea voyages as a whole and includes detailed route from Europe to the region called Europe as the East Indies. Map of European nations has just reached the Indian mainland, while the area on the east side was still dark.
Compared to Spain, Portuguese is superior in many respects. Portuguese sailors who are runaway leaders Templar (and founded the Knights of Christ), with strict secrecy seeks their latest maps which contain sea routes to Southeast Asia.
The maps when it is the object of the most hunted by many European kings and merchants. But like the saying goes, "smart-smart squirrel jump, eventually fall as well", so is with the map held secret Portuguese sailors.
A number of Dutch people who have worked long in Portuguese sailors know this. One of them named Jan Huygen van Linschoten. In 1595 he published a book called Itinerario naer ofte Portugaels Oost Indien, Travel Guide to the East or the Portuguese Indies, which includes a variety of maps and very detailed description of the cruise lines that made the Portuguese to the East Indies, complete with all its problems.
The book sells in Europe, but of course this is not like the Portuguese. The nation is to hold a grudge on the Dutch people. Thanks to this van Linschoten, Netherlands finally know the many problems faced by the Portuguese in the new territory and also the secrets of the ship and voyage route.
Employers and the Dutch authorities to build and refine sea fleet ships immediately, so that they could also plunder the world's wealthy south, and not inferior to other European kingdoms.
In 1595 the Netherlands sent a first expedition to the archipelago called the East Indies.The expedition consisted of four ships with 249 crew led by Cornelis de Houtman, a Dutchman who has long worked on the Portuguese in Lisbon. Approximately one year later, in June 1596, de Houtman landed at the port of Banten, which is the main port of trade in pepper in Java, and then along the north coast, stop in Sedayu, Madura, and others. Leadership de Houtman very bad.
She was in pride and besikap arbitrarily on indigenous people and also against fellow European traders. A number of conflicts caused him to lose a lot of boats and their crews, so that when it landed in the Netherlands in 1597, leaving him just three ships and 89 crew. However, these three ships full of spices and other precious objects.
Dutch people think, if a de Houtman who is not competent to lead alone could earn that much, especially if led by someone and the fleet that is far superior. Coming back to the team de Houtman cause a burning passion in many Dutch merchants to follow in his footsteps. Houtman trail followed by dozens or even hundreds of Dutch merchants who send their fleet to the East Indies. Within a few years, the Dutch had colonized the East Indies and it lasts a long time until the newly independent in 1945.
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