Just how profitable was the spice trade? #shorts

[tgfire]

He who controls the spice. Controls the universe.

[Chubbycat]

The Dutch trying to explain why they traded Manhattan for nutmeg:

[workingstiff]

Yeah that was a killer episode. I'm so glad Gabby is back, don't let her leave again

[oddball_the_blue]

It got more fun, when the Dutch also managed the first recorded occurrence of corporate espionage with a Dutch sailor landing on a British East India Company owned island. Fun times.

[theduke]

The Dutch East India Company at its peak was worth more than the entire Prussian Economy by itself, and the VOC owned more ship than the British Navy

[leeholmes]

So it's their fault I'm addicted to spicy food and

[franzferdinand]

If you ever come to the Netherlands I highly recommend a visit to the maritime museum and the VOC ship reconstruction of "the Amsterdam" or "the Batavia" very informative and beuriful to visit!

[ronmaximilian]

It was valuable enough that if you owned some joint stock, you could afford to purchase a colorful tulip

[Siphuncularity]

It was Dutch explorer Willem Janszoon who also rediscovered (for the Europeans, anyway), the Continent of Australia 1606. Even doing a decent job of surveying the coastline, with other Dutch explorers following.

[donaldhanning]

An alternate VoC are the villain in my homebrew dnd campaign set in essentially our world

[thgravmakrgaming]

You could do a vid about how the VOC was actually superior to the EIC for the start of the spice trade

[redarogallo]

VOC. The Golden Age for us (With an extreme dark side to it)

[MaskHysteria]

Trade with the East is what drove Columbus to try to find a westward route to India for the Spanish and what drove the British to build the Suez canal to cut travel time and make the route safer.

[arnowisp]

And now I learn how we have Modern companies and stocks.

[SecurityMonitorLizard]

Spices were so valuable that the British made beans on toast their national dish

[Willothemask]

A pocket full of nutmeg in Elizabethan/Jacobean England could net you enough cash to buy a modest mansion, retire, and hire a manservant for the rest of your life. The dockworkers were forced to wear special clothes that didn't have any pockets just so theft was less likely.
Also the VOC's Joint Stock system may have been the fiirst step to the modern Stock Market, but when that ship came in, you got your money back plus profit. And would then have to reinvest again. It wasn't until the English East India Company introduced their Continuous Stock system, where you paid in, got dividends relative to your investment, and kept your investment in the company until you sold your stock, that the modern concept of the stock market was truly born.

[tonywalker]

Yeah, the East Indian Trading Company was essentially the first megacorporation.

[thepoglin]

This one and the british east india company had enough wealth to fund entire armies, the only other group ive ever seen with enough wealth to go to war with major powers was the family lineage of hamilcar barka AKA the family of Hannibal the greatest enemy of rome

[pietermollema]

Col facts. Also it is not pronounces Voc as in one word, but instead you pronounce the letters separately: Vee O Cee

[indigodegelder]

We dutch were the first to implement never get high on your own supply, we stole all the sices from all over the world but never used any of them and we still don't use any spices in our native dishes XD.