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By the early 17th century, the Dutch had taken over as the primary Euopean colonial power in Asia. They took control of
the Moluccas and instituted a new plantation system. These plantations were much like the Spanish settlements where they
used native people to tend the lands. The Dutch plantations, however, were dedicated to a single Cash Crop to make
money.The Dutch also colonized parts of North America. They based thier claims to the land on the explorations of Henry Hudson. In 1609 Hudson visited where is now present-day New York City and explored the river that now bears his own name. Over the next few years, the Dutch dispatched some trading vessels to the region, which they named New Netherland. Some more permanent colonists bagan to arrive in 1624, where a trading outpost was made. They called the settlement New Amsterdam and the first large wave of settlement there occured that same yesr.
