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The Spice Islands War: Nutmeg, Banda and the Dutch East India Company
Before nutmeg became a kitchen staple, it was one of the most valuable commodities on Earth — worth more by weight than gold. In this episode, Lucas and Luna trace the brutal history of the Banda Islands, the only place in the world where nutmeg grew wild. They explore how Bandanese traders had already built a complex network linking their atolls to Java, Malacca, and China long before Europeans arrived. When the Portuguese, then the Dutch East India Company (VOC) arrived, they found a sophisticated trading system — not an empty frontier. Lucas recounts the shocking 1621 massacre ordered by…
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