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The Spice Islands: Nutmeg and the Banda Massacre
In this episode, Lucas and Luna travel to the Banda Islands, the tiny volcanic specks in the Maluku Sea that once produced the world's only nutmeg and mace. They trace how these spices reached Europe through a chain of middlemen, igniting a global frenzy that would redraw maps and end lives. The story centers on the ruthless 1621 campaign by Jan Pieterszoon Coen and the Dutch East India Company, which annihilated the Bandanese to secure a monopoly on the coveted crop. Lucas explains the bitter irony that the English, who claimed Run island in a treaty, traded it for Manhattan under the…
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