The East India Company was chartered during the last years of the reign of Elizabeth I to secure a trading monopoly for trade to and from the Indian Subcontinent. Originally operating out of Madras...
The Dutch East India Company was a private company hired by the Dutch government to protect Dutch trade in and around the Indian Ocean. The company wanted to shorten the lengthy and expensive voyage...
Both companies tried to monopolize the trade of sugar cane, coffee, cocoa, rubber, coconuts, bananas, and pineapple. Bribing people to work on farms for them