Dutch East India Company

The name of the Dutch colonization in South America was Surinam, also known as Dutch Guiana. The colonization in North America was the Hudson River Valley (The Western Heritage). In South America, the Dutch at first had an economy weighing on the established sugar plantations. In North America, at first sugar plantations were also the leading industry. In fact, the Dutch were the first to bring African slaves to North America and were used on…

His death marked the end of a Mughal era in India. The empire was the largest in India at the time of his death, yet it the Mughal empire falls. Aurangzeb death followed by a war of throne among his three sons which ended up by the victory of his third son Bahadur Shah. The downfall stated with the Aurangzeb’s religious policy. Aurangzeb turn off the support of the Hindus by committing all sorts of cruelty on them. He imposed Jizya on the Hindus in India. The Rajputs and Brahmans also have to…

NEED FOR FDI IN INDIA As India is a developing country, capital has been one of the scarce resources that are usually required for economic development. The flow of FDI in India from across the world will help in acquiring the funds at cheaper cost, better technology, employment generation, and upgraded technology transfer, scope for more trade, linkages and spillovers to domestic firms. The following arguments are advanced in favour of foreign capital  Sustaining a high level of investment …

The Dutch formed the VOC which was the Dutch East India Company and the slaves were taken as ‘property’ of this company. The Dutch company came about after the Dutch colonized the Cape. The Khoikhoi and the San people were the first Bushmen and herdsmen to arrive in the Cape. The Dutch built refreshment stops where the sailors could have fresh food and water on their way to other countries to…

Introduction The United Nations, whose responsibility is to protect the basic human rights of all individuals, created the Millennium Development Goals to meet unprecedented basic needs of the poor in different areas of the world. The United Nations’ first mission: eradicate extreme poverty and hunger. Nonetheless, how is an entity such as the United Nations, or individual nation-states at that, supposed to break down systems that were meant to be permanent? A system can be described as an…

The success or failure of any political decision often depended on the monarch’s whims. While the king may be a master giving orders to fulfill his will, the emperors of the east were often seen more as a fatherly figure, whose job was to guide the people, or at least act as a reassuring figurehead. The most telling example of this theme is Japan’s “emperor”, who although believed to be almost divine, exerted little influence…

report gave continued to hope that a passage existed between Hudson Bay and the Pacific. England based its claim to the vast Hudson Bay region on Hudson's last voyage. Exploration of the region led to the establishment in 1670 of the Hudson's Bay Company, a fur-trading firm on Hudson Bay, fifty-nine years after Hudson's…

found in the caves of Mexico, its first cultivation can be traced back to India. After the introduction of cotton in Europe in the late 16 century, the clothing market exploded and cotton instantly became one of the most used fabric in Europe as it was very easy to handle and easy to transform it into cotton threads which then in turn was used to make clothes. Due to such a high surge in demand of cotton, the East India Company increased its exports from 15.6% to almost 43% in 1806. This was…

ocean and exchange courses. One such ocean course to India was found by a Portuguese called Vasco da Gama in 1498. Thus, the English, French, Portuguese and the Dutch came to India for exchange. They likewise utilized it to spread evangelist exercises in India. The European and the British traders at first came to India for exchanging purposes. The Industrial Revolution in Britain prompted the expansion sought after for raw materials for the…

moving consumer goods (FMCG) company. It is a British-Dutch company which operates in four main categories; Health and personal care (HPC), Refreshments, Food and Home Care. It is the world’s third largest FMCG company operating in several companies. Unilever is the largest producer of food spreads eg. margarine and it’s products are available in around 190 countries. It has research and development facilities in the United Kingdom (2), the Netherlands, China, India and the United States.…