1. Use this passage and your knowledge of world history to answer all parts of the question that follows.
All of the residents of these United Provinces shall be allowed to participate in this Company and to do so with as little or as great an amount of money as they choose. Should it occur that there are more moneys offered than are needed for the voyage, those who have
more than 30,000 guilders in the Company will have to decrease their capital pro rata in order to make place for others....
As soon as 5% of a return cargo has been cashed shall it be distributed to the participants.
- Charter of the Dutch East India Company, granted by the States General of the United Netherlands, 1602
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A. Identify ONE common economic process in the early modern era that is reflected in the passage.
B. Explain ONE way in which passages such as this one can be seen as examples of how a government could use economic power to establish its authority.
C. Explain ONE example of another economic system used by governments prior to 1750 to
establish their authority.

One of the common economic processes they used is how they determined things based off ones wealth. In the passage, it stated "United Provinces shall be allowed to participate in this Company and to do so with as little or as great an amount of money as they choose." that shows depending on the amount of money someones had they were either allowed to do certain things or they wernt. In the past they based a lot of things on wealth which also determined what social class you were in and how much of a power you had.