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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 of one good, this empire enforced the policy of (*) extirpatie (“ex-teer-PAHT-see”). Agents of this empire waterboarded English traders before (10[1])killing them in the Amboyna Massacre. (10[1])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, (10[2])was founded (10[1])by Jan Pieterszoon Coen. For 10 points, the VOC directed the 17th-century colonial exploits of what empire in present-day Indonesia? ■END■

ANSWER: the Netherlands [or Dutch Empire]
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