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On December 31, 1600, the Company of London Merchants Trading with the East Indies, better known as the British East India Company, was founded in London. Soon, Queen Elizabeth I granted her a monopoly on trade with eastern countries. Such actions were quite in the spirit of the time, when foreign trade was based on […]