Context: In 1634, the Mughal emperor extended his hospitality to the English traders to the region of Bengal, and in 1717 completely waived customs duties for the trade. The company's mainstay businesses were by then cotton, silk, indigo dye, saltpetre, and tea. The Dutch were aggressive competitors and had meanwhile expanded their monopoly of the spice trade in the Malaccan straits by ousting the Portuguese in 1640–41. With reduced Portuguese and Spanish influence in the region, the EIC and Dutch East India Company (VOC) entered a period of intense competition, resulting in the Anglo-Dutch Wars of the 17th and 18th centuries.

Question: How important were cotton, silk, indigo dye,saltpetre and tea to the company?
Answer: The company's mainstay business

Question: Name the wars that was caused by the intense competition between the EIC and Dutch East India Company
Answer: Anglo-Dutch Wars of the 17th and 18th centuries

Question: what caused the Dutch to expand thier spice trade in the malaccan straits?
Answer: ousting the Portuguese in 1640–41

Question: what year did the Mughal emperor completely wave customs duities?
Answer: 1717

Question: who did the Mughal emperor extend hospitality to?
Answer: English traders

Question: what region was made available to english traders by  the Mughal emperor?
Answer: Bengal

Question: in 1717 what made the region of Bengal  so appealing to English traders?
Answer: waived customs duties

Question: why type of  dye was one of the East  India company's main  products?
Answer: indigo dye

Question: Who were the main competitors that  had a monopoly of the spice trade in Malaccan?
Answer: The Dutch

Question: what wars was a result of the competitive nature of the mulitple trading companies in the 17th and 18th centuries?
Answer: Anglo-Dutch Wars

Question: What caused the Greeks to expand their spice trade in the Malaccan straits?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What year did the Mughal emperor strictly require customs duties?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What region was made available to black market traders by the Mughal emperor?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Who did the Mughal emperor forbid hospitality to?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What type of dye was one of the North India company's main products?
Answer: Unanswerable