One colonial governor from this empire ordered a massacre after believing a lamp crashing onto a mosque floor was a signal for revolt. This empire’s soldiers started the practice of taking native women known as nyai as concubines. Japanese mercenaries assisted this empire’s conquest of one region’s kingdoms of Ternate and Tidore. This empire enforced the policy of extirpatie (“ex-teer-PAHT-see”) to artificially limit (15[1])the output of one good in that region. Agents of this empire waterboarded (*) English traders before killing them (10[1])in the Amboyna Massacre. Locals who were not killed during this empire’s brutal conquest of the Banda Islands were enslaved and taken to its colonial capital. That city, Batavia, was founded by Jan Pieterszoon Coen. For 10 points, the VOC directed the 17th-century colonial exploits of what empire in present-day Indonesia? ■END■