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The East India Company forms–the first joint-stock monopoly corporation.
Date: 1600
Corporations
Colonization
Economy
Europe
The role of a joint-stock corporation is to manage a monopoly of trade over a newly colonized land. The East India Company will be central to building the economic power of the British Empire.
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