Monopoly Portuguese Edition - What Did the Dutch Do?

Today's episode is monopoly Portuguese edition. The Dutch killed or enslaved everyone on those islands, made these big plantations and created it in monopoly where they were the only ones to supply nutmeg to the rest of the world. So as cinnamon became wildly expensive and everyone's like, I gotta get my hands on this,. Arab traders are like, nah, we sell to the Venetians. And theVenetians are like, yeah, we're gonna sell to you and we're never gonna tell you where we get it. But the Portuguese decided to find out for themselves. They ended up finding this and then created their own monopoly on this spice that comes from Sri Lanka.