How did Europeans maintain power in South Asia

In the early phase, European control in Southeast Asia was largely confined to the establishment of trading posts. These trading posts were used to store the oriental products obtained from the local traders before they were exported to the European markets.

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''mile-high mystery ''My sister and I hear this eerie wail coming from outside. So they find this alone,sad,homeless dog and so they instead of them saying ''whatever'' and just shut the door on the little guy they acted to help him and find the owner and get him a better life then on in the ''Bitterly cold snow''. So they tried and tried,but even it got hard or it didn't work out ''I sigh,but I just couldn't give up. and the tried so hard they tried phone books, they tried asking so many animal clinics, and then THEY FOUND HIM A HOME So the theme of the two stories are ''dig a little deeper and you will find the solution''