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I like the ship because it’s such a cheerful avatar. It makes me proud to be Dutch... except I’m not Dutch.
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Thank you all, I'm proud too. My avatar is a ship of the VOC, the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, the Dutch East India Company. The company was the first multinational in the history of our world and was the result of the unification of a lot of individual traders.
The company was founded in 1602 and lasted until 1798, exactly 200 years.
The core business of the company was to trade gold for spices, such as cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, sage and many more, textiles, chinese porcelain, silk, and pepper.
Especially pepper was extremely expensive. It is still remembered in the dutch saying "expensive like pepper". The company could make enormous profits because of the intercontinental trade and the different values of products in the different areas in Asia. Example: the company bought textiles for 50 gold in India and sold them for 100 gold in Indonesia. With the 100 gold they bought spices in Indonesia and and sold them for 300 gold in Europe, where those spices were extremely scarce, especially pepper with wich enormous profits were made.
The company attracted capital via shares that could be traded at the stockexchange in Amsterdam.
The company had so called factories, businesses, in southern Persia, India, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) Bengalen (Bangladesh), China, Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Irian Yaya/Papua New Guinea, Capetown and of course the Netherlands.
The most important businesses were in Amsterdam and Batavia (Jakarta)
The company was also allowed to have war in the name of the dutch Stadtholder against other countries who liked to compete with the company. This was with especially the English.
For the intercontinental trade the company used big vessels. These vessels sailed in a fleet several times a year to East Asia. The fleets were protected by some warships, but the tradingvessels were also well armored themselves.
The Dutch East India Company finally lost the competition due to major scandals of corruption, and mismanagement. This occurred at the same time as the dicline of the dutch supremacy, in favor of England that took over the title of Ruler of the Waves from the Dutch.
I'm still wanting to create a patch that replaces the Smith Trading company by the Dutch East India Company, which was founded more than a century earlier, it should work in the same way as the Forbidden Palace: reducing corruption in the surrounding cities of trhe the citiy in which it is being built.
Aidun"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise can not see all ends." - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring.
Term 9 and 10 Domestic Minister of the C3DG I., Term 8 Regional Governor of Old Persia in the C3DG and proud citizen of Apolyton. Royal Ambassador to Legoland in the C3 PTW DG, Foreign Affairs Minister and King of the United Kingdom in the MZO C3CDG and leader of the Monarchist Imperialist team. Moody Sir Aidun (The Impatient) of the Holy Templar Order in the C4BtSDGComment
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BTW, It's now my 1000th post ! I am KING !!!
You have in front of you my new avatar.
It's in honour of my egyptian ancestor, Ramsastronicus !Comment
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is this your egyptian zodiac sign?
"Never trust a man who puts your profit before his own profit." - Grand Nagus Zek, Star Trek Deep Space Nine, episode 11
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Sheesh! Away three months and Arnelos, registered in Sep '02, surpasses my PC, and I was registered in Nov '01!!!
Never mind - I'm not that far off Emperor meself. And there WILL be celebrations when I reach that mark.
/Zim voice
Oh the celebrations there will be!
/Zim
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Originally posted by OliverFA
is this your egyptian zodiac sign?
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That is Ramses II, my favorite pharao! Nice avatar.
BTW, what do you think of my temporary DM candidate avatar?
Aidun"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise can not see all ends." - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring.
Term 9 and 10 Domestic Minister of the C3DG I., Term 8 Regional Governor of Old Persia in the C3DG and proud citizen of Apolyton. Royal Ambassador to Legoland in the C3 PTW DG, Foreign Affairs Minister and King of the United Kingdom in the MZO C3CDG and leader of the Monarchist Imperialist team. Moody Sir Aidun (The Impatient) of the Holy Templar Order in the C4BtSDGComment
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I have seen that statue in Cairo Museum. Nice!
My favourite is the statue of the hippotatumus god.
Does someone have a pic of that?My words are backed with hard coconuts.Comment
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Aidun, your avatar is a more Spanish one than before. ;-)"Never trust a man who puts your profit before his own profit." - Grand Nagus Zek, Star Trek Deep Space Nine, episode 11
"A communist is someone who has read Marx and Lenin. An anticommunist is someone who has understood Marx and Lenin." - Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)Comment
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hmmm, need to get to 500 posts soon,
in order to surprise you with my carefully tought avatar....
ok, not so carefully tought but nice looking...
very good one astrologix, though do not let the watcher see it
Señor Nuclearis Winterius the III,
Diplomat with the Voxians, and also
Señor Pablo Winterius, missionary Bishop and Archbishop of the Roleplay teamComment
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Thank you Señor Nuclearus Winterius, hope the watcher is in vacations.... I can't wait to see the yours one !Originally posted by Nuclear Winter
hmmm, need to get to 500 posts soon,
in order to surprise you with my carefully tought avatar....
ok, not so carefully tought but nice looking...
very good one astrologix, though do not let the watcher see it
Aidun,
Could you explain why this man is in this red triangle ?
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Isa mr aidun going to a slave master job?
That thing in the triangle is a slave in a mine, ain´t it?
Well, if it ain´t I can´t think of anything more...
Señor Nuclearis Winterius the III,
Diplomat with the Voxians, and also
Señor Pablo Winterius, missionary Bishop and Archbishop of the Roleplay teamComment
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Honoring the starter of the thread:
Pikesfan, I've noticed that you recently reached your 500th. Which avatar are you going to choose?"Never trust a man who puts your profit before his own profit." - Grand Nagus Zek, Star Trek Deep Space Nine, episode 11
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