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The last one the route increased contact with foreign countries
Most famous of the governors, Peter Stuyvesant, was also the most headstrong and shortsighted.… …of the Dutch period was Peter Stuyvesant, director general of New Netherland in 1647–64. In 1658 Peter Stuyvesant, Dutch governor of New Netherland, established the settlement of Nieuw Haarlem
It is B. New European medicines made surviving harsh colonial conditions possible.