The Dutch East India Company
In Our Time: History
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Amsterdam and Antwerp
Amsterdam had already been a reasonably important port before the big changes of the 15 nineties that i mentioned. The netherlands is important as a country because it doesn't have much of an agricultural base. And so amsterdam became a place which had amazing amounts of capital expertise but also contacts all over the place, which helped to make the trade possible. Between between he 15 nineties and the middle of the seventeenth century, grew by three to four times.
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