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Through trade, mostly. Because they had the largest merchant fleet in Europe - at one point there were more Dutch merchant vessels than all other European vessels put together - they had more or less cornered the market for corn and similar commodities. Through their conquests and trade monopolies in the Far East, they had also become a major supplier of spices. They also were the first to establish Stock Market listed companies and the stock market to trade shares and bonds on, and the first to have a form of Central Bank.

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