Was the Dutch advantage over the Portuguese the Same as their advantage over the English ? Explain you answer in Detail.
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English and Dutch merchants enjoyed two main advantages over their Portuguese predecessors. They sailed faster, cheaper, and more powerful ships, which offered both an economic and a military edge over their competitors.
Both the English and Dutch focused their efforts and build their strategies around a closed trade by which trade would be monopolized and profits maximized. ... The Dutch had an advantage in resources because they were on the cutting edge of capitalism.
Dutch East India Company, byname of United East India Company, Dutch Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, trading company founded in the Dutch Republic (present-day Netherlands) in 1602 to protect that state's trade in the Indian Ocean and to assist in the Dutch war of independence from Spain.