In this third episode called “Cardamom”, Magellan’s crew will reach the American Continent, also known as Abya Yala. In the Brazilian coast, they faced its indigenous peoples, their behaviors and traditions as Stefan Zweig pointed out:
„Kaum daß die Landungsboote sich nähern, eilen die Eingeborenen aus ihren Hütten und Wäldern und empfangen mit Neugier und ohne Argwohn die geharnischten Soldaten. Sie erweisen sich als völlig gutmütig und zutraulich, obzwar späterhin Pigafetta zu seiner Kränkung erfahren muß, daß sie als wackere Kannibalen gelegentlich getötete Feinde auf Spieße stecken und wie von einem Pfingstochsen dann die schönsten gebratenen Stücke sich abschneiden.“
Also, we will witness the fall of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec empire by Hernan Cortés, that almost happened at the same time.
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…
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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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