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__Dutch East India Company__ The Dutch East India Company reaped enormous wealth and dominated the European economy in 1650. They traded with the Eastern Asians and began to set up towns such as the Cape Town which was located in the southern tip of Africa. With this the global expansion of Europe began and also their curiosity. The Europeans began to become amused about the foreign countries after they began to trade and in the __General History of the Indies__ a detailed eyewitness account of the plant and animals that lived in the foreign countries were being read by the curious European citizens.

McKay, John P., Hill, Bennett D., Buckler, John //__A History of Western Society__// Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003.