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The Molucca Islands: The Spice War That Shaped Empires
In the early 1600s, the tiny Banda Islands in the eastern Indonesian archipelago were the only source of nutmeg and mace, spices worth more than gold. This episode follows the violent struggle between the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and the English East India Company for control of these islands, focusing on the brutal massacre at Banda Neira in 1621, where Governor-General Jan Pieterszoon Coen ordered the systematic elimination of the Bandanese population. We trace the diplomatic and commercial maneuvers, including the Treaty of Breda in 1667, which famously traded the island of Run for…
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