1. British and Dutch East India Company
Faith Simpson, Emma Washburn, Irene Yang
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2. How did competition for resources play an important part of the trade and the British and Dutch East India Companies?
Competition for resources played an important part of the trade and the British and Dutch East India Companies by being fierce enough to result in multiple confrontations. The Dutch East India Company drove away other countries and ruled over Indonesia in order to have more resources to trade. The British East India Company had to maintain an army in order to enforce their rule in different Indian areas. Soon the company ruled India just so they could trade resources to make money. Different companies searched for different resources to trade, creating competition to get the best kinds of resources.

3. What were the effects of the Dutch East India company on military conflict, social condition, and the economy throughout the world?
The effects of the Dutch East India Company on military conflict, social condition, and the economy throughout the world were innumerable. The effect on military conflict was that the leader, Jan Pieterszoon Coen, would torture and kill Indonesians who traded with people besides the Dutch. The effect on worldwide economy was that the company was gargantuan and most likely the richest and most powerful company in the world at that time. The effect on social condition was that this allowed for the Netherlands to have a golden age and spread different goods around the world.

4. How were the British and Dutch East India companies able to control trade?
The British and Dutch East India Companies were able to control trade by ruling over different portions of land to acquire resources and be in control of where they were traded. For example, the Dutch East India Company ruled over Indonesia, so was therefore able to control the vast majority of trade in Indonesia. The British East India Company was ruling over the majority of India and leading an army to control the people living there. This would grant them just about complete and utter control over the importation and exportation of goods in the country.

5. What role did scarcity of resources play in the these companies success?
Scarcity of resources made the British and Dutch companies very successful. Most of Europe had no spices, that were coincidentally very useful. As a result, they paid for a higher quantity at a higher price than normal. The companies selling spices and other things from Asia became very rich because of this.

6. What conflict was a result of the success of the Dutch East India Company?
The Dutch East India Company was the most successful, leading to many conflicts between them and it’s neighbors. For example, the British tried to attack them a few times, but the Dutch defeated their fleet. Another war was the Dutch-Portuguese war. The Dutch eventually won, taking control over India’s spice trade.

7. What products were these companies trading?
The British East India Company traded spices from South Asia. They also traded cotton, silk, indigo, and saltpetre. It eventually extended to the Persian Gulf, Southeast Asia, and East Asia.

8. How did the Dutch East India Company influence culture then and today?
The Dutch East India Company had a great influence on today’s culture. For instance, The Dutch East India Company brought porcelain, spices and exotica to Europe. It was the first multinational company, bringing goods all over the world. The goods from trade all around the world would power the Dutch economy for over two hundred years.

9. What is the difference between the two companies?
There are many differences between the British East India Company and the Dutch East India Company. For instance, the Dutch East India Company only lasted for about 200 years, 197 to be exact and the British East India Company lasted for about 300 years, 274 to be exact. Another example is that the Dutch East India Company traded, “ in the waters between the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa and the Straits of Magellan between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans” while the British East India Company traded with Asia. Another difference between the two is that the British East India Company had a serious rivalry with the French East India Company and the Dutch East India Company had little to no trouble with the French East India Company. One last difference is that the Dutch were very cruel to their subjects and killed them while the British were a lot kinder to their people.

10. MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
Based on the document provided, what can you infer about the British East India Company’s surplus?
They have a large supply of resources
They do not have a lot of resources
They have no resources
They have enough resources to buy themselves fake southern accents
(This is for the British East India Company)

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