The Age of Exploration: Chapter 7, Exercise 3 — Possible Solution
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CAUSES OF DECLINE (per the source)
After 1730: erosion of intra-Asiatic trade, rising corruption, high employee
mortality and unsustainable dividend policies. The Fourth Anglo-Dutch War
(1780 to 1783) devastated the fleet. The charter expired on 31 December 1799
after the Batavian Republic was established in 1795.

NOT SAID
What the nationalization into the Dutch East Indies involved; the source gives
it in one sentence.