1600 CE
Elizabeth I charters the East India Company
British Empire · Companies, trade & extraction · Law & imperial government
The charter incorporated London merchants and granted them an English monopoly on trade from the Cape of Good Hope to the Straits of Magellan. A private trading corporation would gradually become a fiscal, military, and territorial power in Asia
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