mainly cotton, silk, salt, saltpeter, and opium.
The Dutch East India Company was a private company hired by the Dutch government to protect Dutch trade in and around the Indian Ocean. The company wanted to shorten the lengthy and expensive voyage around the Cape of Good Hope.
Both nations set up an east India company to control the Asian trade.
The Dutch West India company wanted its colonists to set up a fur trade.
Both companies tried to monopolize the trade of sugar cane, coffee, cocoa, rubber, coconuts, bananas, and pineapple. They bribed people to work on farms for them.
The English East India Co's first successful voyage to India under the name "Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading with the East Indies" was in the year 1601. Earlier attempts made by merchants since 1588 were unsuccessful with either the ships returning home or lost at sea. The successful voyage was commandeered by Capt. James Lancaster
The Dutch East India Company was a private company hired by the Dutch government to protect Dutch trade in and around the Indian Ocean. The company wanted to shorten the lengthy and expensive voyage around the Cape of Good Hope.
The Dutch West India Company had a monopoly on beaver fur from their trading depot at Fort Orange (what is now Albany) from 1624-1664.
Both companies tried to monopolize the trade of sugar cane, coffee, cocoa, rubber, coconuts, bananas, and pineapple. They bribed people to work on farms for them.
Both nations set up an east India company to control the Asian trade.
The Dutch West India company wanted its colonists to set up a fur trade.
The Dutch East India Company :)
The Dutch East India Company :)
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Both companies tried to monopolize the trade of sugar cane, coffee, cocoa, rubber, coconuts, bananas, and pineapple. They bribed people to work on farms for them.
Both companies tried to monopolize the trade of sugar cane, coffee, cocoa, rubber, coconuts, bananas, and pineapple. They bribed people to work on farms for them.
The Dutch West India company wanted its colonists to set up a fur trade.
Set up a fur trade.