The Dutch East India Company
In Our Time: History
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Are the Dutch Imposing Their Will on the Arab Overland?
In the seventeeth century, i think if you look at the duch east india company, they outstripped all the shipping of all the other east india companies. But we have to realize that a lot of these people died. So for instance, in 17 75, there were 370 soldiers that arrived in batavia. Within two years, 80 % of them were dead. And once they start moving from the coast land inwards, they they die even quicker. The overland route is the arab overland loutis rous is losing its authority because of the series the dutch are imposing over there. It was diminishing spain's power after diminishing portug
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