• mika_mika@lemmy.world
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    1 个月前

    They sold the spices to other nations for major profit to enrich themselves. They never intended to eat said spices.

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      That’s what the Portuguese and the Dutch did. By the time the British finally defeated the Dutch in… like… the seventh war, the spice trade was no longer the most profitable. It was then the Atlantic Triangle… or whatever it was called.