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What was the Dutch West India Company's role in New Netherland?

  • They ignored it

  • They colonized it

  • They sold it

  • They destroyed it

Answer

The Dutch West India Company was instrumental in the Dutch colonization of the Americas, including New Netherland, in the seventeenth century. New Netherland was a 17th-century colony of the Dutch Republic that was located on the east coast of America.
The Dutch West India Company: Conquerors of the New World

The Dutch West India Company: Conquerors of the New World

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