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Trade and the Commercial Company Spread Around the World Like a Virus. With the Spanish defeated, other Europeans join in the colonization game with their own merchants through the invention of companies, paper financial products, and commodities trading
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 1600 | English East India Company established |
| 1602 | Dutch East India Company established |
| 1660 | Royal African Company established |
| 1694 | (Central) Bank of England established |
| 1695 | Bank of Scotland established |
| 1711 | South Sea Company established |
| 1714 | John Law goes to France to eventually set up the Mississippi scheme |
| 1752 | Royal African Company dissolved |
| 1755 | Richard Cantillon publishes Essai, contributing to monetary theory |
| 1759 | Adam Smith publishes The Theory of Moral Sentiments, advocating a new system of morality that is against Utility |
| 1776 | Adam Smith publishes The Wealth of Nations,bashing the Commercial System which is based on Money and Utility |
| 1789 | Start of the French Revolution |
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