a league or alliance, especially of confederate states.
The Dutch East India Company was a trading company. It had many rivals, but it didn't specifically focus on waging war or combat, it was used to focus their trade powers between territories.
<span>The first recorded appearance of the plague in Europe was at Messina, Sicily in October of 1347. It arrived on trading ships that very likely came from the Black Sea, past Constantinople and through the Mediterranean. While Sicily was succumbing to the horrors of the disease, the expelled trading ships brought it to other areas around the Mediterranean, infecting the neighboring islands of Corsica and Sardinia by November.</span>
To have laws and enfocement to enforce those laws and keep peace among citizens
