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Adjusted to modern currency, the Dutch East India Company was worth $7.4 trillion in the 17th century. When ceasing operations in 1800, where did all the money go?
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Scandinavia was one of the few European areas that was never in control of the Roman Empire. What did Scandinavian civilizations think of the Roman Empire at its greatest extent?
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