The Dutch East India Company — The Forgotten Trading Empire
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Welcome back everyone! Hopefully we can stay on schedule from here on out, but I promise absolutely nothing, especially as I head into a holiday season that is also playing double duty as “get all your shit packed for moving 5000 miles away to grad school” season as well.
I hoard clothes and shoes along with the typical academic hoarding of books. Choosing what I can take in my two suitcases is already giving me anxiety and I haven’t started yet.
This week’s episode is entitled: The Dutch East India Company — The Forgotten Trading Empire.
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If you ever watched the Pirates of the Caribb-ean — and half of you just cringed at how I pronounced that — Fine, Pirates of the Cari-bbean, now the other half of you can be pissed off too. Is it too late to just call it “that pirate movie based on the ride at Disneyland’ — anyway, if you’ve seen it…and who hasn’t really? Then you probably recognize The British East India Trading Company. Formed by Royal Charter in 1600 by Queen Elizabeth the 1st, operated until 1858, presumably located the heart of Davy Jones and used it to force the Flying Dutchman to terrorize the Caribbean…no…
