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The Spice Islands: Cloves, Nutmeg, and the Blood of Empire
We left off talking about how the Dutch East India Company and Portuguese traders competed for cloves and nutmeg in the Banda Islands. But the story doesn't end with trade agreements; it ends in blood. In this episode, we zoom in on the Banda Neira massacre of 1621. We explore how Governor-General Jan Pieterszoon Coen used total war to monopolize the global spice supply, slaughtering thousands of Bandanese people and enslaving the survivors. This wasn't just business; it was a calculated ethnic cleansing that reshaped the demographics of Southeast Asia and cemented Dutch imperial…
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