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• How successful were European Companies in organising long-distance sea trade?
• Where the early modern sea routes completely dominated by European merchants?
• Compare the role of two European trading Companies in Asia.

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European-Asian Trade

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• Europe's Asian Centuries Project at Warwick
• The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857
• BBC Programme on the East India Company