Christopher Columbus’s brutal conquest shaped America’s foundations — a legacy Donald Trump seems determined to revive today ...

In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” I remember the poem from my school days, when we were taught the Italian explorer, ...

“They used the surplus of mace, which was difficult to sell at the market at the time,” Professor van Zanden explained, noting how the VOC distributed a spice from the nutmeg tree cultivated in the ...

The Dutch East Indies Co., which operated in the Pacific Ocean in the 1600s and traded porcelain, spices, and textiles, is generally considered one of the first multinational corporations.

From Russia the samovar and tea came to Turkey although tea was also imported by sea from the south east. Turkey is usually ... which is commonly used all over the Indies, not only among those ...

This time the volcano Krakatoa, in the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra, erupted. News of the colossal eruption was ...

noting how the VOC distributed a spice from the nutmeg tree cultivated in the East Indies . “It was a kind of compromise solution,” he added. Starting in 1623, the VOC paid dividends every two ...

Look for coral in the mud that was brought from the West Indies in the ballast of ... Bermondsey To the east of Tower Bridge, where spice and tea were offloaded from ships into huge warehouses ...