The Spice So Valuable It Justified Genocide - The History of Dutch Nutmeg

A trading company once looked at a tiny, three kilometer island covered in nutmeg trees and decided it was worth more than Manhattan, and that wasn't even the darkest part of the story. 🌰 In this episode of Muddled History, we trace how nutmeg went from a single volcanic archipelago in Indonesia to one of the most valuable substances on the planet, and how the Dutch East India Company's obsession with owning that supply led to one of history's most brutal, least remembered atrocities. Along the way: plague cures, silver nutmeg graters, the birth of the modern stock market, a company worth more than Apple, Google, and Amazon combined, and the near total destruction of an entire people to protect a monopoly on something now sitting in your spice rack. It's a story about greed, empire, and how far people were willing to go over a single seed. If this one hit you the way it hit me, subscribe to Muddled History, like the video, and tell me in the comments what you think the right word for 1621 actually is. 🔔 #spicehistory #nutmeg #dutcheastindiacompany #colonialhistory #historydocumentary #MuddledHistory #darkhistory #indonesia #weirdhistory #ColonialTrade #foodhistory