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Europe's early poverty and desire for East Indies spices pushed Spain and Portugal to seek new routes after Muslim-controlled trade routes became costly or blocked.
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Spice Trade
Venice becomes powerful precisely because it lacks resources and must use trade, piracy, diplomacy, and imperial parasitism to survive.
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Venice becomes powerful precisely because it lacks resources and must use trade, piracy, diplomacy, and imperial parasitism to survive.
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The Dutch East India Company is presented as a quasi-state corporation with monopoly, army, currency, government, and law-making power.
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"so the first thing you need to understand is that for most of its history, Europe was a very poor place. And in order..."
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"They're actually worth more than gold, okay? Something like cinnamon, nutmeg, peppercorn, okay? These spices are extremely valuable commodities. In fact, one ship, if..."
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"It's a private bank. It's a private interest. They print money, and the government, how's it gonna spend money? It borrows from the Federal..."
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"All right, so this is Venice today. And as you can see, it would be very hard to invade. Also, remember, at this time,..."
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"...to set up trade networks throughout the world. This is a spice trade, and the center, of course, is in Venice, and this makes..."
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"And it makes their people very lazy, okay? So there are three ways in which you can take advantage of that. The first, of..."
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"Okay? And the reason why, it is a monopoly over the spice trade from the East Indies. It has its own army, it has..."
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"...is the richest area of the world because it controls the spice trade in this time in history spice is the most valuable commodity..."
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