“Mit Pfeffergewicht setzten manche Fürsten und Städte ihre Zölle fest, und wenn man im Mittelalter einen Mann als schwerreich bezeichnen wollte, so schimpfte man ihn einen Pfeffersack. Auf Gold- und Apothekerwaagen wiederum wurden Ingwer und Zimt, Chinarinde und Kampfer ausgewogen und sorgfältig dabei Türen und Fenster verschlossen, damit nicht etwa ein Luftzug ein Quentchen des köstlichen Abfallstaubs verblase.” Magellan – Stefan Zweig.
In this second episode called “Mustard”, we will expose how distances worked in previous explorations. Columbus always thought he was in India or some Japanese Island. We will pass list to see who belonged to the Armada de Molucca. Also, we will count what was carried in the five carracks (Trinidad under Magellan’s command, San Antonio commanded by Juan de Cartagena, Concepción commanded by Gaspar de Quesada, Santiago commanded by Juan Rodriguez Serrano and Victoria commanded by Luis Mendoza) before they set sail.
With the feat already completed, in this last episode called saccharin, we talk about the geopolitics of the trip, and how the world was changed (for better or for worse), until our days:
How the world was governed from that moment on by a Eurocentric vision. How the diversity of…
After a failed incursion in Cape Verde to try to get some food, and after a thousand fatigues and after countless problems and deaths, they finally make it, they complete the first circumnavigation of the world. Elcano and the survivors are received by the Emperor himself. The people of San Lucar have never seen…
Saffron is made up of threads, filaments that separate, as do the Victoria and the Trinidad in the Spice Islands. While the Trinidad, piloted by Gonzalo Gómez de Espinosa will try to return to the American continent in order to reach Europe again, the Victoria…
Seven is the number. Finally, Clove is here. The most precious spice that pushed this trip to be accomplished will not be easy to get. Magellan, immersed in an excess of confidence, will face the local chief Lapu-Lapu, in a battle where he pays with his life. So says Stefan…
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