Pepper trade

species of plant

obsolete name for an area of western Africa, between Cape Mesurado and Cape Palmas, enclosing present-day Liberia

thumb|400px|Return of the second Asia expedition of Jacob van Neck in 1599, by Cornelis Vroom (-1661) A voorcompagnie (pre-company) is the name given to trading companies from the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands that traded in Asia between 1594 and 1602, before they merged to form the Dutch East India Company (VOC). The pre-companies were financed by merchants from the Northern Netherlands and rich immigrants from the Southern Netherlands.The government forced the smaller trading companies to unite and form the (United) East India Company. In turn, it received exclusive rights to trad