The Dutch East India Company
In Our Time: History
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Is There a Monopoly?
The duches senior company is not the only one with a monopoly, which sounds strange, but they all had a monopoly to sell those acient goods in their own country. So it also returns to the first question that you gave me. These monopolies, they are very much the european thing. And if you move towards asia, you can see that those monopolies don't really make sense. Only in the case of small spices, and to a certain extent, pepper, there's much more control of the europeans. But for the rest,. when we start evolving, so they move beyond spices, and they movei towar in into tea and textiles
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