Social Sciences and History / Unit 4 SSH 0315 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Dutch and British Trade Empires
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The idea
The Dutch invented currency exchange and the stock market and founded the first corporation, the East India Company, in sixteen oh two. Britain imitated: the Navigation Acts of sixteen fifty-one, three Dutch wars, New Amsterdam renamed New York.
In practice
Plassey in seventeen fifty-seven: eight hundred British with two thousand sepoys.
Where people slip
The English East India Company began as a monopoly and ended ruling India.
Your place on the trail
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