Question

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. A city established by this empire was successfully defended against a siege carried out by Sultan Agung. To artificially limit the supply (15[1])of one good, this empire enforced the (-5[1])policy of (*) extirpatie (10[1])(“ex-teer-PAHT-see”). Agents of this empire waterboarded (10[1])English traders before (10[2])killing (10[1])them in the Amboyna (10[1])Massacre. (10[3]-5[1])Locals who were not killed (10[1])during this empire’s brutal conquest of the Banda Islands (10[1])were enslaved and taken to its colonial capital. That city, Batavia, (10[5])was founded (10[2])by (10[1])Jan Pieterszoon (10[1])Coen. (10[1])For 10 points, the VOC directed the 17th-century colonial exploits of what empire in present-day Indonesia? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: the Netherlands [or Dutch Empire]
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