
Part One: The Most Evil Company In History
Behind the Bastards
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The Dutch East India Company
All the spices that we've talked about so far come from, or only located in a chunk of inanesia called the banda islands. The dutch east india company was the first publicly traded corporation in the world. It started out with a 21 year charter, so it was supposed to be dissolved in the money given back to its original formers after that point. But it wound up getting its charter extended over and over again, and eventually lasted more than two centuries. So they get all the spice. They just had a tat as the only place fang only place cloves grew m so yet, the dutch eastindia company is formed to try and gain a monopoly
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