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What was the Dutch West India Company's role in the colonization of the Americas?

  • It was instrumental

  • It had no involvement

  • It was opposed to it

  • It tried to prevent it

Answer

The Dutch West India Company was instrumental in the largely ephemeral Dutch colonization of the Americas in the seventeenth century, including New Netherland.
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