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The British East India Company that would eventually come to effectively rule the whole Indian subcontinent started as a(n) __________.
joint stock company
religious group fleeing persecution
combined venture with the Dutch East India Company
experiment in early socialism
missionary mission to South East Asia
Explanation
The English (later British) East India Company was founded in 1600 by Elizabeth I, who gave the company a trading monopoly on all trade with the East Indies (India and much of South Asia). The company was a combined venture of several investors who pooled their resources and shared in the profits, much in the way of a modern corporation owned by shareholders. This practice is called a joint stock company.