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Casa da Índia: Europe's First Global Trade Monopoly
In this episode of The Rise of Colonialism, Lucas and Luna explore the Casa da Índia, the Portuguese royal trading house that managed the spice monopoly and became the model for later colonial companies like the Dutch VOC and British East India Company. Founded in 1500 in Lisbon, the Casa da Índia controlled every aspect of trade between Europe and Asia: the arrival and sale of pepper, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg; the dispatch of fleets; the collection of customs duties; and the dissemination of cartographic knowledge. Lucas explains how the Casa worked as a state-run monopoly, the…
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