Call to Power II/Dutch

The Dutch are relatively new to the game arriving at independence in the early 1600s and breaking off of a German civilization called Holy roman empire. Independence was not granted by the Germans till 1648 along with a huge war called the 30 years war. but for the dutch civilization it had been a 80 something year war for independence since the mid 1500s. Tensions with the English Civilization shortly later lead to a loss of territory to the English in 1664 AD in what is now the state of New York part of Americans Civilization. Part of New York was ruled by native American civilization called the Iroquois confederacy. The most important city placement was Mohawk pre-made names that come with the game for native Americans. another city is Pavonia just west of new amsterdam. this can be found on the region showing the east great lakes. out of the Aployton real world maps. mohican was located on or near the site for Albany.

After the Dutch lost new netherland /new york. the dutch went on to build what is now Indonesia civilization its capital was called Batavia now part of the city of Jakarta.

The default game begins in 4000 BC so Dutch are very new to the time line. Some parts of the dutch colonial empire are still found on the north america map with 6 cities aruba, bonaire ,curacao ,st. maarten ,albina ,parmaribo with permanent french garrison on its land the dutch competetor called french will have 5 cities left on the map in 2010. but despite being a new civilization the dutch founded the dutch east india company wonder in the early 1600s before the holy roman empire granted it independence in 1648. but along with netherlands a new nation called switzerland was also carved out of the german civilization called holy roman empire. switzerland was not a playable civilization but can use the non-playable barbarian entities. The last major colony of the dutch empire to break away and be independent was ducth guiana now called Suriname which shares a border with Brazillian civilization. In the 1600s the dutch occupied a portion of Brazil near the city of Recife the dutch also breifly occupied what is now Taiwan. by 1700 AD Cape colony was also becoming a focus of the dutch empire. its capital was Cape town. the dutch lost control of cape colony in a world treaty in 1815 after france's leader napoleon was defeated. in 1820s brazil became independent civilization. Zulu civilization sprang up breifly near cape town. but the dutch continued to have independent colonies there til 1902 like Johannesburg. world war 2 in the 1940s caused the eventual loss of Indonesia. some dutch order was restored just after 1945 but did not last. in 1975 suriname becomes independent. eventually Indonesia went on to annex the only portuguese territory on the south-east asia map in the year 1976. in 2002 that teritory is independent its non playable so use barbarian for it.