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Dutch Guyana, Flanders, Bijapur, Ceylon, Curaçao, French Guyana, Mysore, Hindustan, New York, New Andalusia, Netherlands, Goa, CarnaticaĬapture and hold 15 regions by the end of the year 1799, including the regions shown. Flanders, New Andalusia, French Guyana, Carnatica, Netherlands, New York, Curaçao, Ceylon, Dutch GuyanaĬapture and hold 25 regions by the end of the year 1799, including the regions shown. There is wealth aplenty in every corner of the world, if only the Dutch have the will to go and take it!Ĭapture and hold 15 regions by the end of the year 1750, including the regions shown. They have a strong navy, and a tradition of victory. His presence has done much to calm relations, especially as the equally-mercantile British have designs on world trade that should rightfully be Dutch!įor the future, the Dutch have much to be hopeful about. William III of Orange was an acceptable Protestant ruler for the British when they needed one. The British have been… tamed is too strong a word… brought to their senses by having a good, honest Dutchman on their throne. Other rivals close at hand are now less of a threat than they used to be. An expansionist France, on the other hand, does bear watching, and guarding against. A distant Catholic emperor holds no appeal for them. Having beaten off brutal attempts to bring them to heel, the Dutch now have little love for Hapsburg-ruled Spain or Austria. The Dutch have learned to live with Hapsburg threats hanging over their heads. Spanish claims to the New World and its trade are cheerfully ignored, as are Spanish threats. They are everywhere, in fact, where there is a profit to be made. Dutchmen can be found trading in the Indies, where they give the locals a run for their money, and the Caribbean. A mere generation ago, the Dutch navy sailed into the Thames and burned the English fleet at anchor: this kind of bravado and expertise is not quickly forgotten.ĭutch merchantmen range across the world’s oceans, and the wealth of the world passes through Dutch ports. Having tamed their land and held back the sea, the Dutch have also embraced the sea and become the foremost naval power in the world. However, the edge of the Great Steppe is a troublesome place for a Hellenic culture to settle Baktria finds it difficult to curry favour with the aggressive nomad tribes.The United Provinces are a Protestant stronghold in North-western Europe, a place where science, trade and freedom of thought have flourished since the Spanish were driven out in the last century. Well-situated for trade, they enjoy enhanced commercial and industrial income, and with their popular Hellenic outlook, they find it easier to spread cultural influence with others. As a result, the Baktrian soldiery faces Hellenic armies with great confidence and courage. Immense wealth, and tough warriors, could take their armies all the way to the shores of the Mediterranean…Īs veterans of the Successor Wars, Hellenic states hold few surprises in battle for the warriors of Baktria. Under their new kings, the Baktrians could be a vigorous military power, benefiting hugely from any breakdown in Seleucid authority and inattention from Parthia. During the rule of Diodotus, and sometime between the Second and Third Syrian Wars of the 3rd century BCE, it became an entirely independent Hellenistic kingdom. With the Seleucid Empire locked in a series of wars against the other Successor states, Baktria was a satrapy with a degree of independence. As such, Baktria’s armed forces brought a rich and varied blend of warriors to the field, with hoplites, peltasts, fierce swordsmen and – unusually for a Hellenic nation – horse archers The region was heavily colonised by Greek settlers, more so than any other part of the east, and was largely Hellenised as a result, with Greek culture and influence paramount in all things. In the confusion of wars that followed Alexander’s death, Seleucus I Nicator established his control over the eastern parts of Alexander’s empire, including Baktria. Roxana, Alexander’s wife and the mother of his nominal heir who was born after his death, was a Baktrian princess. The land was a home to Greek colonists, Persians and many more peoples, and was a part of Alexander’s vast empire. It was wealthy thanks to those trade routes and the rich agricultural lands of its fertile valleys and plains. It lay in what is modern-day Afghanistan, and Kandahar itself was founded by Alexander the Great.Īs a protectorate of the Seleucid Empire, Baktria was famed as a province of a thousand cities. Baktria was a gateway to trade between east and west, to India, and to the far-off lands of China.