How The Dutch Dug Up Their Country From The Sea 

VersVlees that actually sounds really cool! You can just find sea shells right in your backyard.

@@Tyler732594 Well a downside of living on any polder or former lake/sea floor anything not a foundation tends to sink. (Severity depends on the age/location of the neighborhood in almere) Every few years you need to bring in sand to level up your garden/driveway. btw I can still find the sea shells but I now have to dig a at least through a meter of sand lol.

Guess we're neighbours, buddy😂😂😂

I’m not really

@@VersVlees Sounds like future Mexico City lol

Does the real country still have Polders?

@@donotcare57656 r/woosh

You can also use a fire charge :p

You only need 10 obsidian, you dont need to fill the corners

Sssshh!!! Dont tell them! The nazis are still hiding there....

The Netherlands was conquered from the Spanish (which gained it it's independence) and you should also look into the colonies conquered by the VOC all around the world. In fact, the Dutch even conquered England and put a Dutch king on the throne at one point.

@@exitspree Yes! It is called the glorious revolution. The Dutch king restored order after a long time of turmoil. Without this event, it would have taken the English alot longer to become the naval hegemon and build their world encompassing empire....

@@exitspree They didn't "conquer" England. William of Orange just became king.

@@alejandrayalanbowman367 Wrong! Quote from Wikipedia: "The Glorious Revolution, also called the Revolution of 1688, was the overthrow of King James II of England (James VII of Scotland) by a union of English Parliamentarians with the Dutch stadtholder William III, Prince of Orange, who was James's nephew and son-in-law. William's successful invasion of England with a Dutch fleet and army led to his ascension to the throne as William III of England jointly with his wife, Mary II, James's daughter, after the Declaration of Right, leading to the Bill of Rights 1689." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious_Revolution

Jan-Willem It was really just William of Orange was an heir to the throne and HE was very popular whilst the King was not. So they basically just invited him over and became king. Not much fighting happened

Luckily back in the day, people didn't retire :D So that problem didn't exist

I'm sure, when you've got your eyes open, that you're informed in advance, about your loss of a pretty view, Frederico. So that you're given a chance to move and find another lovely seaside beach house. Don't be dramatic.

@@devonseamoor Ever heard of humor? :p

No joke; in the USA local governments use eminent domain to take your land and in some cases do nothing with it.

​@@moladiver6817 I'm in the US. We can't afford humor like that. Some kid on the beach building a dam in front of their sand castle would turn into some Fox News headline: "Flood Prevention Barriers: Is Water Really That Bad?" By the end of the week, it will develop into: "Liberals Confiscating Beach Houses, Despite Science Disproving Climate Change" A year later, after a "random" Cat. 5 hurricane: "Obama Allows Thousands Of Homes To Flood, Despite Warnings".​

Yeah heavy rainfall, rising sea level. Sounds like a recipe for disaster. I wish you all the luck and good fortune in the world.

Why should you? Your country have solved a problem and massively reclaimed lands that other countries can only dream of doing

@@borresron Imagine a hurricane, earthquake, tsunami, or other natural disaster hitting an area 4m below sea level. The only thing that seperates our homes from a massive wall of water is a pile of rock and soil. I agree it's impressive engineering. But I also think it's important to be aware of the situation I'm in.

@@joops110 Fortunately, it is pretty much impossible for a hurricane or a serious earthquake/tsunami to hit the Netherlands due to its location.

@@hadhamalnam Yes you're right, the chance is small. But it will happen eventually, it's just a matter of when.

If I recall correctly, the original name of Amsterdam was Amstelerdam, meaning dam in/of the Amstel, which is a river running through the city.

sorry hoor maar paleis op de dam maakte het niet duidelijk voor je?

When I was a kid I reasoned that "Amsterdam" must be a dam that had been built by a giant hamster 😂

Great

@Desi Raand does the telegraaf keep telling you that?

@M G mmmm.. Naa!!!

@M G The Netherlands: "Hippity hoppety, water get off my property."

Lmao how did this get 719 likes

@ 755 likes but it should be about 25mill? not sure of Dutch pop. but it's all about Dutch perseverance, patience, ingenuity, imagination and capabilities. Hence this video! 😘😉

@Junjun Hmmm...I dunno, I love his accent!

The english word for polder is polder, you better tell him you were joking before he googles it.

Strange really, because England does have a polder of its own, called The Fens. What you end up with is marsh land, low laying flat and prone to high water table and periodic flooding. The Fens were reclaimed by Dutch engineers and labour, many of whom settled as growers on that land.

@@kapiteinbadmuts5043 And don't forget gezellig

@Jim Bovens Apartheid, Apart = being separate. Dutch and English has many similarities.

It's like reading a Polandball comic without the pictures.

Wouter van Engelenburg lol I’ve never seen it. Now after searching for it I can say it’s just as good as I hoped it would be.

@Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin The duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz is the coolest Mecklenburg. Change my mind

@Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin but the schwerin loyal hereditary line was broken. If Germany went back to 1918 now, the strelitz line (same guy) would rule Mecklenburg-Strelitz and the larger Mecklenburg-Schwerin

@Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin yeah, and to be fair. Wilhelm II almost put the schwerin line in ruling all of Mecklemburg. The strelitz grandduke died in early 1918, and 2 of the most possible heirs were fighting against the germans .... So, the schwerin grandduke took the temporarilly job, to wait until the war was over. But Wilhelm II didn't want traitors have to throne, but then the revolution and all that shit happened, so yeah. To be honest thoe, The schwerin part was the coolest part. Strelitz just ontrolled the city of Strelitz+some swampland and some random small pockets of forest. Schwerin was way cooler, having harbours, castles, large forests. I just wanted to chat a bit, loved your name.

Thx

@TheWeeaboo I'm an Indian and the last sentence is so bloody true

@TheWeeaboo Rhodesians weren't boers/Afrikaner tho, they were anglos

You Somalian overlords apriciate your hard work.

They do not produce the food they export. They are actually re-exporters. Meaning they import food from other countries and export it to their neighbors. This made them the 4th largest importer in the world with a significantly small population. Even their main exports are eggs, meat and beverages. Meaning, not a land oriented produce.

What happened? What it's about?

@@unematrix The now extinct texcoco lake.

@@TheAutobotPower ahhh, I forgot about that.

Are talking about Tenochtitlan?

I mean, they couldnt hold the Dutch themselves

I agree!

Also when you drive through all three from north to south you can tell the different ages by the building styles of the farm houses and the diversity in the forrests.

Small correction: Flevomeer and Almeer where still sweet water. Only after the 11th century it became salty and renamed into Zuiderzee.

Indeed, I agree, great video, very clear and to the point.

and then replaced with RAPE seeds *music plays louder*

@@lilpapalstate628 AKA Canola (Stands for Canada oil) seeds.

did he say weed seeds? If so this land was indeed made using the Cannabis plant

Hey mr G what’s up map

I did too

Here in the Netherland, Indonesian cuisine is still hugely popular to this day.

Good thing we left something to be proud of... Our nation did some shitty things to your country, trying to control your populace, while taking your land, burning down resistant villages, executing hordes of people...

@@desu38 yass! Excellent spicy food. I make rendang quite often and combine serundeng on dishes with rice. Gado Gado, Nasi goreng (though that has spread quite far, everywhere).

Indonesia dapat yg banyak bagus dari Belanda, tidak hanya masalah. Semua teknik dari Belanda, kereta api, edukasi, sekolah, universitas, RS, infrastruktur semua di bangun. Tapi knp skg banyak banjir di Jakarta? Krn waktu merdeka orang Indonesia tutup "kanal" bangun dr Belanda. Tdk begitu pintar kan? Skg Belanda mau bantu krn Jakarta benar di dalam bahaya, tidak hanya dari musim hujan tapi juga dari Laut Jawa.

@@corbeau-_- All the colonialists treated their subjugated quite poorly by todays standards, but todays standards are MUCH higher than in those days. My father used to tell us that in the Dutch East Indies we treated the natives much better than most colonial powers, sending some back to Holland so that they could be trained to eventually take over the running of their country as the Dutch saw in advance that the colonial days were coming to an end. They intended for the Indonesians to be independent but a willing member of the Dutch Commonwealth, as their West Indies Antillean have become. Unfortunately the 2nd. WW. got in the way and afterwards the English and USA. forced the Dutch to relinquish control to the rebels there even tho' the Dutch warned that Indonesia was not ready for self rule, and as a result went into 20-25yrs? of internal struggle. The English did this because they were jealous of the Dutch control of the spice trade!

Het is ook een engelse uitdruking.. tenminste als je die bedoelt van god created the world but the dutch the netherlands..

Hij kan wel een logopedist gebruiken.

:'(

It was originally a French saying by Descartes. Know your history. That was translated to English and most Dutch gave heard thus saying in Dutch too.

@@Grav648 Het was een oorspronkelijk een uitspraak in het Frans van de filosoof Descartes die zich in de Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Provinciën gevestigd had.

why do we need to fix the dam?

@@jianyang6281 it is at major risk of bursting putting tens of millions at risk

@@jianyang6281 Samuel McNeill 1 month ago @jian yang it is at major risk of bursting putting tens of millions at risk But of cause! you don't know this because your govt. hides every mistake so you ppl. don't realize how inept they are! They didn't even discover that baby formulas made in China had melamine powder in it. It took the Australians to discover that for you! So how are your communist regulators in your country looking after the ppl. Btw I bought a China made washing machine a yr. ago and already it is faulty! . . .keeps giving me error 5 messages which according to the manual means the machine is not level, but it IS level ! what a piece of CRAP! and ONLY 1yr. old!

@@johnzuijdveld9585 Can you please share some source regarding the dam? I would like to learn more about this, whatever sources I have read do not offer any concrete inference on their own just that someone said something about that dam. I would be much obliged if you could share a source that talks about some metric on which it has been established to be under duress. At one point I read that it was only ten metres from over flowing, but if the dam does not give even when it overflows, doesn't it mean that it will potentially never break? Though of course downstream damage could still be very extreme.

@@randomrandom316 I'll tackle this again . . . NEVER say never! many dams have lasted for a very long time and 10mtrs is about 35 feet +or - sounds fairly reassuring to me! BUT! ALL dams built around the 1980's did not account for any thing called 'Global Warming' A few years ago there was catastrophic floods in Queensland Australia, there were unprecedented rains and the authorities feared that the dam may collapse so they let billions of gigalitres of water flood the plains to ensure that the dam would not fail which would have been much worse. But as a result there were millions if not billions of $ damage, a failure of long term panning or just plain ignorance? All Govts. are having or going to have these problems soon, will they adjust as necessary or simply deny any problems? The 5 Gorges Dam system has been identified around the world as a serious threat to life, (it's not the only one worldwide, there are others elsewhere) but the CCP. refuses to acknowledge international good will and offers of help, saying this is ALL Western propaganda trying to destabilize it's control!

At the end of the day, Jakarta is just a much larger, much more tropical version of amsterdam. (Or was)

Tapi lihat Jakarta sekarang! Banyak kanal di tutup dari orang Indonesia kapan merdeka dari Belanda. Hasil: banjir terus sekarang. Dan Belanda harus bantu Jakarta lagi. Pak Anies yg bodoh bebar.

Hi I'm a Dutchman in S. Au. there's a lot to be gleaned from surnames all over the world. My name means South field, hence that is where my forefathers came from, yours came from some polder region, a name like Van Dyke or Van der Zee tells you where he/she is from when you know that Van means from, as does Von in German, Du in French and De in Spanish and Portuguese I think do the same thing. In English Smith or Black most likely means your ancestral name comes from the trade of blacksmithing, Brown or Bruin of someone involved in leatherworks, Green most likely greengrocers, Cob or Cobbs to do with being a cobbler (bootmaker) ... now joking Jack from a jackass and Jackson being the son of aforementioned jackass! 😊

And i, i am dutch, and as a dutchman i can tell, you need a nether portal to come here

plox fam the bacteriophage 😂😂😂

plox fam the bacteriophage Groudon is probably my favorite Pokemon.

@jaca van heesch May Kyogre's floods cleanse your bitter soul!

Yep. Fair point. I did not think of that, it should have been 'agricultural products' :(

🤔 Hmmm a large part of their agricultural products are seeds this expertise started in the 17 th century and this expertise is unmachted. It's so important for the worlds food production that they feared that the Corona crises endangered food production worldwide because seeds could not be exported in time for sowing crobs...

Yeah that surprised me too, I was thinking there was no way Netherlands export more food than the countries you listed haha

@@HistoryScope Btw, I'm not trying to dismiss the achievements of the Netherlands. It's all incredible and I love the Dutch.

Im Dutch and i build greenhouses all around the world because we are the only one who can build them and you will be surprised what you can create in a greenhouse. Our knoweledge of making food with less water, LED light ect. goes around the world now and its created at the university of Wageningen. I think we must be the nr. 1 haha no im kidding ;p

Reclaim land*

Lucas Nederlandse Patriot ????

The incorrect measurements irritates me but I can tell by the pinned thread that you are one of the only youtubers that listen to their viewers!

It annoys me too... This is something so small yet so silly to get wrong :(

@@HistoryScope But you made larger errors in this video than just the numbers. Mixing up polders flooding by the Germans for example.

Das bij mij in de buurt (Breda)

@@dimrrider9133 ah toevallig

Hé, dankjewel!

Thanks

Jan van speijk heeft niks verkeerd gedaan

Hallo Belg! Hartelijk dank voor je heerlijk bier, ook verkrijgbaar hier in het verre New Zealand.

Logoncal can Estonia join nordics?

I am not hear a "no"

+Desi Raand Didn't see any Moroccans and Turks destroying the place when l was there. Seemed quite a Dutch country really, with tolerance being a part of their culture.

@@lazarus2691 1953 worst year of life!

The Dutch's war on the sea

This is a great comment!

*the Netherlands

lol good one, im dutch btw

Tnx

Nice, but please wait until after the travelban :D

@@HistoryScope lol...ok

I'm a number of decades old Dutch man...but i NEVER heared or used the phrase: " God creeerde de wereld, maar Nederlanders creeerden Nederland"...!!??

@@HighDutchMan77 Het is een engelse uitdrukking, maar het wordt toegeschreven aan de Fransman Voltaire. Ik woon in Ierland en heb het hier vaak gehoord, maar in Nederland nog nooit.

@@HighDutchMan77 god schiep de aarde maar de nederlanders schiepen nederland

@@HighDutchMan77 then where have you been hiding. Every Dutchman knows this. By the way it comes from Descartes and was originally in French. However he moved to the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands and felt more at home than in his own France.

@@gustavthemagician Incorrect, the French philosopher Descartes said this about two centuries before Voltaire. Descartes lived a long time in the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands.

Hahaha you can visit my city because i live 2 km from the Belgium border in Breda ;p

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Wat is gekoloniseerd? de polders?

@@aliaguerin1266 dat hoor je te zeggen als iemand iets over nederland zegr

@@thijs275 waarom?

@@thijs275 Ik ben heel goed in staat om zelf te bepalen wat ik zeg, dat maak jij niet uit. Bovendien gaat dit over polders, dus je gebral slaat nergens op. Als je wil laten zien dat je deugt en alle blanken slecht zijn, want dat bedoelt jouw soort eigenlijk, dan is dat mislukt. Je wilt gewoon aandacht, zielepoot.

@@gustavthemagician en wat zou dit te maken met mijn eventuele huidskleur?

Thanks, if you want it to be realy like the Netherlands just build farms everywhere.

he! That'll learn ya! 😊