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Kazeer [188]
3 years ago
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Why did the dutch avoid occupying large foreign territories?

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1 answer:
sergiy2304 [10]3 years ago
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Answer:

Dutch chartered companies often dictated that their possessions be kept as confined as possible to avoid unnecessary expense, and while some such as the Dutch Cape Colony(modern South Africa) and Dutch East Indies(today's Indonesia) expanded anyway due to the pressure of independently minded Dutch colonists, others

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