What Was the Largest Commercial Enterprise of the Seventeenth Century

question 46

Multiple Choice

What was the largest commercial enterprise of the seventeenth century?

• A)The Dutch East India Company
• B)The British East India Company
• C)The Royal Africa Company
• D)The British West India Company
• E)The Virginia Company

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