What role did Japan play in the development of the Dutch empires in Asia? What events enabled the Dutch to have a relative monopoly on access to Japan?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Role of Japan in Dutch empires
1. Asian communities could become more selective about their
partnerships
a. more buyers and shippers from Atlantic-side Europe
were now operating in maritime Asia
2. Dutch did establish dominance as carriers of Europe's Asian
trade in the seventeenth century
a. combination with political instability in Central Asia
3. Dutch success due to the favor of indigenous states
a. privileged position the Dutch established in trade with
Japan
4. Japan's willingness to participate in the spreading web of
economic interconnections came close to collapse
a. phenomenal success of Catholic missionaries from Spain
and Portugal
b. Japan had a fear that this alien religion would undermine
traditional loyalties to the state
c. provoked an official ban on Christianity
d. led to the bloody martyrdom of Catholic clergy and
converts until Christianity was driven underground
e. from 1640, Dutch merchants were the only Europeans
allowed in Japan
1. Dutch allowed Japanese servants to participate in
the revolt against Christianity
2. Dutch were Protestants
5. Japanese government channeled Dutch trade
a. strictly monitored the merchants' contact with Japanese
subjects
6. trade in Japan was an enormous bonus
a. Dutch dominated the handling of all the most valuable
products of China and Southeast Asia for European markets
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