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How did the East India Company change the world?

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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The Formation of the East India Company and England's Competition with the Dutch

This chapter explores Queen Elizabeth's strategy to obtain spices from the East Indies by creating the East India Company, the first joint stock corporation, to compete with the Dutch in the spice trade.

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