1
00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:03,800
Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class from how

2
00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:13,880
Speaker 1: stuff Works dot com. Hello, and welcome to the podcast.

3
00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:17,440
Speaker 1: I'm editor candas Keener, joined by staff writer Jane Hey.

4
00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:20,400
Speaker 1: They're Candice hate Jane. You know, this morning, I knew

5
00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:22,759
Speaker 1: that we were going to be talking about a certain

6
00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:25,120
Speaker 1: spice today, So when I went to get pick up

7
00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:28,760
Speaker 1: my morning coffee, I found a nutmeg shaker and was

8
00:00:28,840 --> 00:00:31,960
Speaker 1: very liberal and shaking the spice into my coffee because

9
00:00:32,120 --> 00:00:35,760
Speaker 1: nutmeg is it's such a fun spice. It's sort of

10
00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:41,080
Speaker 1: nuttie and sort of like woody tasting, and it's very savory. Yeah, definitely.

11
00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:43,159
Speaker 1: I mean, I especially like a Christmas time for my

12
00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:46,479
Speaker 1: Christmas egg, one of my favorite drinks. Yeah. But as

13
00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:50,199
Speaker 1: much as you love nutmeg, would you ever trade the

14
00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:54,200
Speaker 1: island of Manhattan for nutmeg? Knowing what it is now?

15
00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:56,480
Speaker 1: I don't think I would, but I don't think that

16
00:00:56,600 --> 00:01:00,600
Speaker 1: such a slow coming. So what we're talking about is

17
00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:04,440
Speaker 1: this sort of a quirky piece of history in which

18
00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:06,840
Speaker 1: people used to say that the Island of Manhattan was

19
00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:09,600
Speaker 1: traded for like twenty four dollars or a couple of

20
00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:12,720
Speaker 1: strands of beads or something like that. And that's sort

21
00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:15,759
Speaker 1: of fictional to begin with, but it has a longer

22
00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:19,160
Speaker 1: and more interesting story than that. And if you think

23
00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:23,800
Speaker 1: that the American Indians who resided around Manhattan were conned

24
00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:26,240
Speaker 1: into giving up this very valuable piece of land, then

25
00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:29,039
Speaker 1: we have excellent news for you guys. They were not.

26
00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:32,440
Speaker 1: If anyone was taken advantage of it was the Dutch.

27
00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:36,280
Speaker 1: And this also ties into our nutmeg discussion. Um and

28
00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:39,520
Speaker 1: going back to give you some context about nutmeg, uh,

29
00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:43,400
Speaker 1: the Europeans loved them their own their nutmeg, and uh

30
00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:45,679
Speaker 1: back at least in the fourteenth century, we did a

31
00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:47,319
Speaker 1: We did a podcast a while ago on the on

32
00:01:47,360 --> 00:01:51,800
Speaker 1: the Black Death, and during that time at least Europeans

33
00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:56,160
Speaker 1: actually loved their nutmeg. They actually wore it around their

34
00:01:56,200 --> 00:02:00,280
Speaker 1: necks in a little packet to protect themselves from the play,

35
00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:02,760
Speaker 1: which is pretty interesting. I actually read that it sounds

36
00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:05,040
Speaker 1: it sounds like superstition, but I read that it actually

37
00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:10,000
Speaker 1: might have helped in repelling the fleas that possibly spread

38
00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:13,200
Speaker 1: the plague. And nutmeg, if you've never seen a whole

39
00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:16,280
Speaker 1: one before, it's about an inch long. It's like a

40
00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:20,440
Speaker 1: little nut shaped spice, and the inside of the kernels

41
00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:24,200
Speaker 1: where nutmeg comes from, nutmeg proper. But the outside coating

42
00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:26,720
Speaker 1: on the kernel is where we get the spice called mace,

43
00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:30,800
Speaker 1: and it grows on a tree. And um, it was

44
00:02:30,840 --> 00:02:34,160
Speaker 1: considered very, very valuable, not just for medicinal reasons that

45
00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:36,440
Speaker 1: Jane mentioned, but also because it could be used as

46
00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:40,640
Speaker 1: a hallucinogen and an aphrodisiac. And in the sixteenth century

47
00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:42,960
Speaker 1: some monks were known to reduce it to an oil

48
00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:47,080
Speaker 1: and rub it on their genitals. So go knock yourselves out.

49
00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:51,600
Speaker 1: But um, today we use small quantities of nutmeg to

50
00:02:51,639 --> 00:02:55,639
Speaker 1: help quell gas and nausea, but in really really large

51
00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:58,320
Speaker 1: doses nothing you could ever get from cooking with nutmeg.

52
00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:02,280
Speaker 1: Don't worry, um, it can still cause hallucination as well

53
00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:06,200
Speaker 1: as some symptoms that are similar to an epileptic seizure. Sarah,

54
00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:07,960
Speaker 1: if you eat enough of it it will do that

55
00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:10,760
Speaker 1: to you. Yes, I'd recommend getting yourself a nice little

56
00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:13,880
Speaker 1: nutmeg mill and and grinding it into your nutmeg in

57
00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:17,799
Speaker 1: your morning coffee and so just ingesting at hall So anyway,

58
00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:21,920
Speaker 1: all of this to say, nutmeg was a really hot commodity. Yeah,

59
00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:25,240
Speaker 1: And the Europeans were used to getting their nutmeg through

60
00:03:25,639 --> 00:03:29,400
Speaker 1: um land routes. Actually with nutmeg itself was indigenous two

61
00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:32,320
Speaker 1: islands in the East Indies, and so obviously and obviously

62
00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:36,200
Speaker 1: the climate of Europe was not very hospitable to nutmeg.

63
00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:38,680
Speaker 1: They couldn't grow it themselves, and so they relied on

64
00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:43,760
Speaker 1: these trade routes. But um, about the fifteenth century, uh,

65
00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:48,480
Speaker 1: the Ottoman Empire actually took over Constantinople, and in so

66
00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:51,440
Speaker 1: doing they actually shut down these land routes, cutting off

67
00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:55,520
Speaker 1: the axis for Europeans to um continue doing their trade.

68
00:03:55,880 --> 00:03:58,280
Speaker 1: And that's why when you hear about Christopher Columbus trying

69
00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:00,880
Speaker 1: to find a new trade aide route to the East,

70
00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:02,640
Speaker 1: it was such a big deal. They had no way

71
00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:05,520
Speaker 1: of getting there by their usual directions. They had to

72
00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:08,440
Speaker 1: find an entirely new way. And we know that Columbus

73
00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:13,160
Speaker 1: dumbled upon America supposedly, but someone who had markedly more

74
00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:16,840
Speaker 1: success was Vasco da Gama, and he actually went around

75
00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:19,520
Speaker 1: the Cape of Good Hope, and by doing so and

76
00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:24,080
Speaker 1: successfully getting to trade in the East, he put Portugal

77
00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:25,880
Speaker 1: at the top of the list when it came to

78
00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:28,960
Speaker 1: trading in the sixteenth century. Yeah, but like Canada said,

79
00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:32,240
Speaker 1: Columbus ran into America in the west. So you have

80
00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:34,800
Speaker 1: these Europeans who were more interested in the East and

81
00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:37,240
Speaker 1: their spices, but they're also pretty intrigued by what the

82
00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:39,760
Speaker 1: West has to offer and they want to find out

83
00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:43,000
Speaker 1: what's there, which is why um in about sixteen o

84
00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:46,840
Speaker 1: nine the Dutch hired explorer Henry Hudson to actually go

85
00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:49,640
Speaker 1: to North America, and what they really were after was

86
00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:51,919
Speaker 1: a northwest passage to try to find an access to

87
00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:54,080
Speaker 1: the East Indies. That's really what they were all about.

88
00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:57,839
Speaker 1: But he didn't find that. Obviously, there's no exact northwest

89
00:04:57,839 --> 00:05:00,279
Speaker 1: passage that would allow them to do that, and what

90
00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:04,039
Speaker 1: he did find were um pretty interesting places like Manhattan,

91
00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:07,880
Speaker 1: the Island and Long Island and the river that was

92
00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:10,480
Speaker 1: later known as the Hudson River from its discoverer. So

93
00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:14,200
Speaker 1: by this time the Dutch had formed their own West

94
00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:19,240
Speaker 1: India Company and they took the land that Hudson had

95
00:05:19,279 --> 00:05:22,240
Speaker 1: discovered and all the surrounding properties, the water, the island,

96
00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:26,120
Speaker 1: and they essentially dubbed it New Netherland. And this was

97
00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:29,039
Speaker 1: a great place to engage in the fur trade, and

98
00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:32,640
Speaker 1: so it became very attractive to them. And around sixty six,

99
00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:36,040
Speaker 1: the director of the Dutch West India Company, Peter Minuitt

100
00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:39,560
Speaker 1: bought the island from the American Indians, like I was

101
00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:45,080
Speaker 1: alluding to earlier. And Um, what's funny about this purchase

102
00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:50,599
Speaker 1: is that the American Indians didn't really conceive of Manhattan

103
00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:53,200
Speaker 1: as their island. It was a place where they occasionally

104
00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:56,479
Speaker 1: went to hunt, game and to fish, but it certainly

105
00:05:56,480 --> 00:05:59,440
Speaker 1: wasn't a place where they had, uh, permanent dwellings or

106
00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:02,800
Speaker 1: even timber very dwellings. And when they wandered over occasionally,

107
00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:05,159
Speaker 1: that's when they encountered the Dutch. And we think that

108
00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:08,800
Speaker 1: perhaps Henry Hudson encountered them at one point in time

109
00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:11,760
Speaker 1: and and the spirit of sharing and you know, uh

110
00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:15,240
Speaker 1: good sportsmanship offered them some liquor he had brought over.

111
00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:19,000
Speaker 1: And that's why the American Indian term or the island

112
00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:22,440
Speaker 1: of Manhattan is a word that translates to place where

113
00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:25,280
Speaker 1: we got drunk, Yeah, which is pretty interesting. It just

114
00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:27,520
Speaker 1: goes to show that they didn't really consider it their own.

115
00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:29,600
Speaker 1: You know, they didn't even live there, you know. Um,

116
00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:32,640
Speaker 1: but the Dutch didn't really know that. They just assumed

117
00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:36,599
Speaker 1: that the Indians considered considered it their own. And so

118
00:06:37,320 --> 00:06:39,400
Speaker 1: in this consideration they tried to do the right thing

119
00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:43,440
Speaker 1: by actually giving them commodities in exchange for the land. Yeah,

120
00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:46,719
Speaker 1: and historians like to note that um at least, compared

121
00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:50,280
Speaker 1: to maybe Spanish conquistadors who just sort of took the

122
00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:52,960
Speaker 1: land when they wanted it without any concern for the natives,

123
00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:55,760
Speaker 1: the Dutch at least tried to show a sign of

124
00:06:55,760 --> 00:06:59,599
Speaker 1: good faith by trying to purchase uh, the island of Manhattan.

125
00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:03,560
Speaker 1: Formal so, while the fur trade is flourishing in Manhattan,

126
00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:07,720
Speaker 1: we have the spice trade flourishing with the East India companies,

127
00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:11,400
Speaker 1: and nutmeg by this time has attained a six thousand

128
00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:15,760
Speaker 1: percent markup. It is incredibly valuable, and a group of

129
00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:19,200
Speaker 1: islands near Indonesia, the Banda Islands, became so much more

130
00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:23,360
Speaker 1: attractive to traders at this time. In Portugal actually annexed

131
00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:26,360
Speaker 1: the islands in fifteen twelve, but the Dutch did not

132
00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:29,840
Speaker 1: like this. Yeah. So, actually the Dutch came into the

133
00:07:29,880 --> 00:07:33,400
Speaker 1: Banda Islands in about sixteen o two and formally like

134
00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:36,560
Speaker 1: ousted the Portuguese. And at the time the Bandonese, the

135
00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:38,880
Speaker 1: local population, they were pretty happy to see the Dutch

136
00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:42,240
Speaker 1: because they the Portuguese. You know, we're known as as

137
00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:45,800
Speaker 1: harsh colonizers. Little did they know, however, that the Dutch

138
00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:48,880
Speaker 1: would end up being much harsher as colonizers in general.

139
00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:52,680
Speaker 1: And when they took over, the Dutch immediately made a

140
00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:56,920
Speaker 1: treaty with the Bandanese people, the village chiefs in particular,

141
00:07:57,320 --> 00:08:00,320
Speaker 1: and so they tried to get the Bandonese to to

142
00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:03,680
Speaker 1: only deal their nutmeg through the Dutch, so that the

143
00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:06,800
Speaker 1: Dutch could have monopoly. And unfortunately, this is a problem

144
00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:10,760
Speaker 1: that has persisted throughout history, the idea of someone coming

145
00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:13,400
Speaker 1: into a land that does not belong to them and

146
00:08:13,480 --> 00:08:16,880
Speaker 1: brokering a deal in a foreign language, with foreign terms,

147
00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:20,120
Speaker 1: and maybe sometimes even with the culture that doesn't have

148
00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:22,440
Speaker 1: a formal system of writing, and getting them to sign

149
00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:26,360
Speaker 1: a piece of paper, And in the case of the Bandanese,

150
00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:29,600
Speaker 1: this is sort of what happened. They didn't fully understand

151
00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:33,400
Speaker 1: the terms of the Dutch contract, and nutmeg was valuable

152
00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:37,760
Speaker 1: to them as a bartering tool for neighboring islands from

153
00:08:37,800 --> 00:08:41,640
Speaker 1: which they got different types of garments and textiles and food.

154
00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:45,640
Speaker 1: So they needed nutmeg for their own sustenance. It wasn't

155
00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:48,240
Speaker 1: just a mercenary matters them. It was a matter of

156
00:08:48,280 --> 00:08:51,839
Speaker 1: survival and when the Dutch got word of them being

157
00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:55,760
Speaker 1: the non exclusive recipient of their nutmex supply, they got

158
00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:59,199
Speaker 1: really upset. So you know, you can't really say the

159
00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:03,120
Speaker 1: Bandonese broke their contract if if the possibility is there

160
00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:06,040
Speaker 1: that they didn't understand it and they relied on on

161
00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:09,880
Speaker 1: the bordering to survive and so. But the Dutch obviously

162
00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:12,600
Speaker 1: didn't understand it or didn't care why they were breaking

163
00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:16,480
Speaker 1: the contract. They responded with violence. Most of the time

164
00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:19,560
Speaker 1: these were like isolated skirmishes, a series of attacks, but

165
00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:23,000
Speaker 1: at points there are situations where the Dutch just came

166
00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:27,079
Speaker 1: in and sweeping violent massacres of the local population of

167
00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:31,160
Speaker 1: the Bandonese. And uh it was so sweeping that um

168
00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:33,720
Speaker 1: they actually ended up killing I think most of the

169
00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:36,719
Speaker 1: Bandonese population, so much so that the Dutch had to

170
00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:39,200
Speaker 1: import their own farmers to be to grow the nutmeg.

171
00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:43,480
Speaker 1: And meanwhile, at this time Britain has gotten a hold

172
00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:47,319
Speaker 1: on a neighboring island where natmeg also grew, and they

173
00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:49,880
Speaker 1: were using not their advantage to try to destroy the

174
00:09:49,960 --> 00:09:54,880
Speaker 1: Dutch monopoly on nutmeg. And um, the Dutch traders were

175
00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:58,480
Speaker 1: so adamant about being the only ones to dabble and

176
00:09:58,520 --> 00:10:00,559
Speaker 1: the trading of the spice that they actual like dip

177
00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:04,079
Speaker 1: nutmeg and lime to prevent anyone else who purchased it

178
00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:07,840
Speaker 1: from planting at and sprouting their nutmeg trees. So, like

179
00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:10,640
Speaker 1: you said, the British had this island named Run, and

180
00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:12,800
Speaker 1: this was the missing piece in their in their banda

181
00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:16,600
Speaker 1: island um monopoly. And there was this one Dutch commander

182
00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:20,160
Speaker 1: who's known for being especially ruthless. His name, I believe

183
00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:23,559
Speaker 1: is Yon Peterson Cohen. He if he had his way,

184
00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:26,120
Speaker 1: he would have just gone into the island of Run

185
00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:30,840
Speaker 1: and just expelled the British violently. But unfortunately for him,

186
00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:33,520
Speaker 1: the Dutch in the English back in Europe had recently

187
00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:37,920
Speaker 1: signed a cooperation agreement in UH in sixteen nineteen, so

188
00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:41,800
Speaker 1: he couldn't just go in and kill the British and UH. Instead,

189
00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:45,440
Speaker 1: he decided to do a more handed, underhanded trick, and

190
00:10:45,559 --> 00:10:48,040
Speaker 1: he snuck on the island of Run when the British

191
00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:50,760
Speaker 1: left it briefly, and he actually burned down all of

192
00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:53,720
Speaker 1: the nutmeg trees on that island in a fit of rage.

193
00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:56,040
Speaker 1: And you know, it's funny, Jane, because the joke really

194
00:10:56,280 --> 00:11:00,240
Speaker 1: was on the Dutch, because as we know, UH dyeing

195
00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:02,840
Speaker 1: a seed and planting it is not the only way

196
00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:06,640
Speaker 1: to grow your own crops. Birds and animals do a

197
00:11:06,679 --> 00:11:09,360
Speaker 1: lot of work for us when it comes to pollination,

198
00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:12,320
Speaker 1: and so many birds who ate the fruit from the

199
00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:15,760
Speaker 1: nutmeg tree and flew to different islands actually scattered the

200
00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:18,559
Speaker 1: seed around. The natmeg was growing in different parts of

201
00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:20,560
Speaker 1: the islands at this time, so there was no way

202
00:11:20,679 --> 00:11:23,520
Speaker 1: the Dutch could control the spice unless they controlled the bird.

203
00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:27,600
Speaker 1: Understood that, I guess not, probably not. There were two

204
00:11:27,679 --> 00:11:31,480
Speaker 1: ticked off about their spice. So um, the Dutch are

205
00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:35,280
Speaker 1: pretty upset about this. They've lost their monopoly. They've essentially

206
00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:38,000
Speaker 1: burned this great supply of nutmeg to the ground. And

207
00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:40,640
Speaker 1: what's more, you can imagine that relations with the British

208
00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:43,760
Speaker 1: aren't exactly at a peak at this moment. Yeah, the

209
00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:46,120
Speaker 1: British and the Dutch actually engaged in a few wars.

210
00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:50,640
Speaker 1: During these wars, obviously they would extend to the colonizing

211
00:11:50,679 --> 00:11:52,920
Speaker 1: that was going on in the East and West, and

212
00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:56,800
Speaker 1: so a British fleet actually took over Manhattan forcibly in

213
00:11:56,880 --> 00:12:00,520
Speaker 1: sixteen sixty four in the in the second the Anglo War,

214
00:12:00,559 --> 00:12:04,160
Speaker 1: I believe, and a few years later in sixteen sixty six,

215
00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:06,000
Speaker 1: the on the other side of the world, the Dutch

216
00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:09,520
Speaker 1: forcibly took over the island of Run and so um,

217
00:12:09,559 --> 00:12:12,080
Speaker 1: you have all these lands in different hands, just going

218
00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:14,840
Speaker 1: back and forth. And finally, in the Treaty of Brita

219
00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:17,920
Speaker 1: in sixteen sixty seven, they this was the treaty that

220
00:12:18,040 --> 00:12:20,480
Speaker 1: it ended the war and the Dutch were able to

221
00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:24,840
Speaker 1: relinquish their claim on Manhattan in exchange for control of Run.

222
00:12:25,480 --> 00:12:30,680
Speaker 1: So long story shorts, they have it. Essentially, Manhattan was

223
00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:34,240
Speaker 1: traded for a spice for NatMag Yeah. And another interesting

224
00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:37,200
Speaker 1: side note to this is that um, even though the

225
00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:40,040
Speaker 1: Dutch at this point got control of Run much later,

226
00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:43,760
Speaker 1: and I think the Napoleonic Wars in the early nineteenth century,

227
00:12:44,280 --> 00:12:47,120
Speaker 1: the British actually came back to the Banda Islands and

228
00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:49,960
Speaker 1: took some num make with them. This time it wasn't

229
00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:52,400
Speaker 1: dipped inlime like the Dutch used to do, and they

230
00:12:52,440 --> 00:12:54,560
Speaker 1: were able to replant it, and they went to different

231
00:12:54,559 --> 00:12:57,920
Speaker 1: islands in the West Indies actually and were able to

232
00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:01,120
Speaker 1: plant in different places, including Grenada, which is where it's

233
00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:04,320
Speaker 1: really popular now. So next time you're drinking a cup

234
00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:07,760
Speaker 1: of eggnog and you sprinkle on this very significant spice.

235
00:13:08,120 --> 00:13:11,120
Speaker 1: Remind yourself that it was the cause of many deaths

236
00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:14,480
Speaker 1: and much to violence and a very interesting trade. Back. Down,

237
00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:18,880
Speaker 1: down or enjoy your Christmas eggnog please, not that you'll

238
00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:20,920
Speaker 1: be enjoying it the summertime, but just think about it

239
00:13:20,920 --> 00:13:23,679
Speaker 1: when the holidays roll around. It's pretty cool story, it is,

240
00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:27,680
Speaker 1: And we have weird and quirky stories like this every

241
00:13:27,720 --> 00:13:30,000
Speaker 1: day that we post on our new blog. Yeah, but

242
00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:32,560
Speaker 1: Candice and I blog every day on SOFFI miss and

243
00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:36,360
Speaker 1: history class on our website how stuff works dot com,

244
00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:38,480
Speaker 1: so be sure to check that out for the latest

245
00:13:38,559 --> 00:13:42,240
Speaker 1: updates about your favorite podcasts, as well as the latest

246
00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:45,600
Speaker 1: news and politics and history and culture. And when you

247
00:13:45,640 --> 00:13:48,319
Speaker 1: go there, you can also find this article on how

248
00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:52,600
Speaker 1: stuff works dot com. For more on this and thousands

249
00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:56,200
Speaker 1: of other topics is how stuff works dot com. Let

250
00:13:56,280 --> 00:13:58,920
Speaker 1: us know what you think, send an email to podcast

251
00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:00,520
Speaker 1: and how stuff Work. Stock cam