First Pacific voyage. Abel Tasman was born in 1603 in Lutjegast in what is now the province of Groningen, the Netherlands. In 1633, Tasman went to Batavia in service of the VOC; four years later he was back in Amsterdam.Tasman signed on for another ten years and took his wife along to Batavia.n 1639 Tasman was sent as second in command of an exploring expedition in the north Pacific under Matthijs Quast. His fleet included the ships Engel and Gracht and reached Fort Zeelandia (Dutch Formosa) and Deshima.
A democracy is a government run by the people. Each citizen has a say (or vote) in how the government is run. This is different from a monarchy or dictatorship where one person (the king or dictator) has all the power. There are two main types of democracies: direct and representative.
This is what distinguishes it from a democracy-a republic can be a democracy or an oligarchy. So every democracy is a republic, but not every republic is a democracy. For example, the United States is both a democracy and a republic.Some countries are republics, but are not considered democracies. Examples include Nazi Germany, the People's Republic of China, the Democratic People's Republic of [North] Korea, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.ames Madison defined republic in terms of  representative democracy as opposed to direct democracy.)    A direct democracy, or  pure democracy, is where the people rule directly, voting on  every law themselves. It's a form of government ruled by majority  of every individual.