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The Dutch East India Company's Spice Monopoly in the Moluccas
In 1602, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) was founded with a brutal mission: to monopolize the world's spice trade. This episode takes you to the Banda Islands, where nutmeg and mace grew nowhere else on earth — and where the Dutch, led by Jan Pieterszoon Coen, committed one of the first corporate genocides in history to secure their grip. We unravel the events of the Banda Massacre (1621), the enslavement and displacement of the Bandanese, and the ruthless "hongi" patrols that enforced Dutch dominance. We also explore the Treaty of Breda (1667), which ceded the island of Run to the…
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