The Dutch Company of the Oriental Indies.

Toward end of the fifteenth century, the explorers Dutch merchants were desirous to compete with Portugal to achieve part of the commerce of spices.for to divide the risks, just like the profits, that represented the commerce with the Oriental Indies, the rich merchants of Amsterdam invested in a Dutch Company call corporation of the Oriental Indies.



The government offered to the company the monopoly of the commerce among the Tip of Good Hope (Africa) and the strait of Magellan, in America Southern, with the right to sign dealt with the neighboring states, to maintain armed forces and to name officials in the new territories.

In 1603, the Dutch were taken the island of Amboina, one of the first lost by the Portuguese. Malaca was captured by the Dutch in 1641 and the control of Ceylon, with its precious stones, pearls and cinnamon, finally was started the Portuguese in 1656. For 1755, most of the island of Java was in the hands of the Dutch.

In the 18th century, the company was transformed of a business of commercial navigation to an of local government, with interests in the agricultural production. The Company began to operate with the purchase of local products, that were envoys to Europe while the utilities remained in hands Dutch.nevertheless, these measures failed to stop the slow deterioration of the company.its monopoly was broken, first by the smugglers and then, after the tried Paris in 1784, by their old rival British, that obtained the right to trade with the Indies Oriental.In 1798, while Under the control of the Napoleonic empire, the company was intervened by the Dutch government.