Originally components for explosives (gunpowder) and associated materials, paper money, silk, etc.; as the centuries passed, the items traded for were spices, tea, and drugs (opium), etc.
The English and Dutch merchants had more powerful and faster ships, joint-stock companies and cheaper ships.
Henry Hudson was an English sailor who sailed for English merchants and later for the Dutch East India company. Thus he sailed at different times under the British and the Dutch flags.
The Portuguese, Dutch and British.
Because Dutch started to control some part of them .
Greenland and England
How did the dutch merchants make there profit during the 1500s?
The English and Dutch merchants had more powerful and faster ships, joint-stock companies and cheaper ships.
India
Henry Hudson was an English sailor who sailed for English merchants and later for the Dutch East India company. Thus he sailed at different times under the British and the Dutch flags.
H. Quarles van Ufford has written: 'A merchant-adventurer in the Dutch Republic' -- subject(s): Biography, British, Foreign Merchants, Foreign relations, History, Merchants, Politics and government
He sailed for English and then Dutch Merchants.
40% British, 60% Dutch
tea silk cloth etc and spices as they were looking for the japans and india and tried to also import european goods
Henry Hudson's first and second voyages were paid for by the English Musovy Company, a group of merchants who frequently traded goods with merchants in Moscow, Russia. His third voyage was paid for by the Dutch East India Company. His fourth and final voyage which led him across the North Atlantic and to the Hudson Strait and then the Hudson Bay was financed by the English merchant Thomas Smith.
dutch merchants
Henry Hudson
The Portuguese, Dutch and British.