The two outstanding successes of Dutch commerce in the seventeenth century were
a. domination of the wool trade with England and the spice trade with the East Indies.
b. the spice trade with the East Indies and the trade in sugar from the West Indies.
c. domination of the Baltic grain trade and the spice trade with the East Indies.
d. the spice trade from the East Indies and export products from domestic cottage industries.
e. the trade in sugar from the West Indies and domination of the Baltic grain trade.
c
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