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The Dutch East Indies Company was a joint-stock company chartered in 1602 by the Netherlands States-General in atttempts to expand trade and to establish close relations between the enterprises in Asia (mostly the spice islands in the southeast) and the Dutch government. The formation of this company along with the British East Indies Company shows the importance of trade and economy to the Europeans as well as trade's direct ability to increase the wealth, and therefore the power, of a country or empire.

Created by Jaclyn Speer 12.11.08

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