Southeast Asia

Question 1

Metropole conflict

Answer 1

Largely between Britain & NL in Indonesia

Question 2

Decline of VOC

Answer 2

Gradual decline due to debt and corruption
Declares bankruptcy in 1790s - taken over by Dutch government in 1800

Question 3

4th Anglo-Dutch war

Answer 3

1780-84: Dutch defeat and end of their spice monopoly in SEA

Question 4

Batavian Republic

Answer 4

Puppet state imposed by france in 1794 until 1806
Complicated link between Ams and Java

Question 5

British occupation of Dutch East Indies

Answer 5

From 1811 to 1815

Question 6

Treaty and convention of London

Answer 6

Java and Sumatra were returned to NL in 1814 & 1824 as buffer states
Britain held on to other colonies: cape colony, north borneo, and parts of india

Question 7

British settlements in Malaysian peninsula

Answer 7

Strategically important for trade (strait of malacca)
Made up of multiple seperate settlements (Penang 1786, Singapore 1819, Malacca 1824)
Singapore: most important

Question 8

Straits Settlements

Answer 8

Malaysian settlements united in 1826
Crown colony in 1867
Then inland expansion and indirect rule over local states: federated and unfederated malay states in 1895

Question 9

Resistence against the Dutch in Dutch Indies

Answer 9

Local resistance against taxation, migration of labourers and interference
Islam: Uniting factor against the Dutch
Java war (1825-30) and Aceh war (1873-1908)

Question 10

Expansion of Dutch Indies

Bali and Papua

Answer 10

Bali: conquered in 1849 until 1906
West Papua: controlled until 1920