Question

why did the Dutch want to control land in the east​

Answer 1

Answer:

In 1602, the Dutch created the world's first multinational trading empire called the Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC) or Dutch East India Company (Woods, 2009: 25). The Dutch wanted to gain supremacy in the Asian trading sphere – particularly over the British and the Portuguese.

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