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The most profitable early modern trade, in Jiang's telling, was control of East Indies spices rather than New World gold and silver.
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East Indies
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...the world. Specifically, it wanted spices from what they call the East Indies, okay, Southeast Asia. At this time in history, the main power..."
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"...basically, they imported spices, okay? So this became known as the East Indies, the East Indies. And this is where the money was to..."
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"...the world. Specifically, it wanted spices from what they call the East Indies, okay, Southeast Asia. At this time in history, the main power..."
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"...Portuguese have no choice but to discover new routes to the East Indies. So they went this way. And this is hard because Africa..."
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"...it, okay? Now, the Dutch were responsible for going to the East Indies and bringing back the spices because it's a very dangerous job,..."
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"...a merchant, you're being very wealthy through trade by going to East Indies and getting spices and come back to Europe and selling them...."
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"...it primarily engages in trade with India, as well as the East Indies."
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"...And Spain, because of the Ottoman Empire, Spain cannot access the East Indies trade. Okay? So it had to figure out new ways to..."
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"...needed to keep their wealth safe, right, especially the the Dutch East Indies Company, the VOC. So the Dutch and the English came to..."
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"...The Dutch will set up a power company called the Dutch East Indies Company, which is almost like a nation onto itself. It becomes..."
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"...why, it is a monopoly over the spice trade from the East Indies. It has its own army, it has its own currency, it..."
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"...because it was able to control the spice trade in the East Indies. I mean, the Dutch East Indies Company was, I think, the..."
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"...out how to make a lot of money out of the East Indies, all right? So how did the Dutch, how were the Dutch..."
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