HISA04H3 Lecture Notes - Dutch Cape Colony, Pierre Poivre, Horticulture
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Why did the french spend so much time, effort, and money to establish the colony of isle de france on a tiny island in the. Isle de france (present day mauritius) shipping people of the world, they transported products for countries all over the world. The dutch east india company known as the voc. Formed in 1602 to monopolize asian trade. A model for large-scale business enterprises that now dominate the global economy. The primary goods that the voc traded were coffee, teak wood, spices, and tea. Where spices came from, where countries got all of their spices from. Wherever possible, voc tried to: establish a trade monopoloy, fix prices, replace native population with dutch planters. Nutmeg trade monopoly was first: they seized control the cluster of islands known as banda, most of the native population was killed, left to starve, or enslaved, then they destroyed all other places of nutmeg production.
