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East India Company, a Legendary card
The East India Company was an English, and later British, joint-stock company that was founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874.
- Rarity
- Legendary
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 88
- DEF
- 91
- Power
- 179
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 1,300,000
Power 179 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
East India Company quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the East India Company card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It was ______ for Indian Ocean trade, initially with the East Indies, and later with East Asia.
Answer
formed. It was formed for Indian Ocean trade, initially with the East Indies, and later with East Asia. From the East India Company article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
The company gained control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent and Saint Helena prior to ____.
Answer
1830s. The company gained control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent and Saint Helena prior to 1834. From the East India Company article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Khabib Nurmagomedov. Khabib Nurmagomedov 91 · East India Company 88 · List of busiest airports in New Zealand 83 · Nissedal Municipality 80 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- It was formed for Indian Ocean trade, initially with the East Indies, and later with East Asia.
- The company gained control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent and Saint Helena prior to 1834.
- At its peak, the company was the largest corporation in the world by various measures and had its own armed forces in the form of the company's three presidency armies, totalling about 260,000 soldiers, twice the size of the British Army at certain times.
Why it is Legendary
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The East India Company article was read about 1,300,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 88 and blocks with 91: each hit it takes is cut by 36 %.
How to get East India Company
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Text : Wikipedia, East India Company (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : No machine-readable author provided. Yaddah assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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