Question

explain Europe's overseas trade with east began to fetch enormous profits

Answer 1

IUCN dedicates an entire programme to the overseas countries and territories of the EU, where most of the EU’s biodiversity is located. These nine Outermost Regions and 25 Overseas Countries and Territories cover the world’s largest marine territory and a land area equivalent to that of continental Europe. A Preparatory Action for a Voluntary Scheme for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Territories of European Overseas (BEST) was launched in 2010 and continues to run in a new setup. The programme is part of the IUCN’s Regional Seas and EU Overseas Programme; day-to-day implementation is partially carried out from the Brussels office.

Answer 2

 1600, a group of London merchants led by Sir Thomas Smythe petitioned Queen Elizabeth I to grant them a royal charter to trade with the countries of the eastern hemisphere. And so, the ‘Honourable Company of Merchants of London Trading with the East Indies’ – or East India Company, as it came to be known – was founded. Few could have predicted the seismic shifts in the dynamics of global trade that would follow, nor that 258 years later, the company would pass control of a subcontinent to the British crown. The company has recently been featured in BBC One’s period drama Taboo – central character James Delaney, played by Tom Hardy, comes into conflict with the EIC, which is characterised as a mighty and villainous organisation