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Introduction
Journey to the East
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Journey to the East
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Journey to the East
Chasing the Cinnamologus – sailing for the East Indies
Of the giant Cinnamologus bird Herodotus wrote: “Where the wood grows, and what country produces it, they cannot tell—only some, following probability, relate that it comes from the country in which Bacchus was brought up. Great birds, they say, bring the sticks which we Greeks, taking the word from the Phoenicians, call cinnamon, and carry them up into the air to make their nests” (Rawlinson, [trans.] ‘History’, Book 3). The world’s obsession with discovering the exotic source of this and other elusive spices grew throughout the Roman era and into the medieval period, defining what it meant to be wealthy and powerful. From India to Europe the trade had a profound social, emotional and economic impact; giving rise to some of the first truly international trade routes, and shaping the structure of the world economy in a way that can still be felt today.
Globalisation
For nearly one hundred years, after Vasco da Gama discovered a sea route to India in 1499, the Portuguese and the Spanish were dominant in the eastern and western hemispheres respectively. Early challenges to this hegemony are recorded in Hondius’s complementary maps of the world (items 1 and 2): the “Drake Map”, which depicts the real circumnavigational achievements of Francis Drake and Thomas Cavendish; and the “Christian Knight” map, which uses allegory to rally protestants in England and throughout Europe to the side of Henry IV of France at the moment of crisis in his struggle against Spain and Catholicism. And that is exactly what happened: in 1579, the Dutch overthrew their Spanish masters, and in 1595 Cornelius de Houtman led the first Dutch expedition to Indonesia, parts of which were then under the control of the Portuguese. Teixeira’s monumental map of the world (item 3), epitomises the dawn of globalisation that this challenge achieved. It encapsulates the idea of power and wealth – a symbol of the birth of international commerce at the beginning of globalisation, a testament to the confidence and ambition of the Dutch enterprise. In 1602, the same year that the Teixeira map was commissioned, the States General granted the newly-formed VOC a monopoly of Dutch navigation in the vast area east of the Cape of Good Hope, and to the west of Estrecho de Magallanes: the combination of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. The Company immediately centred its operations on the Malay archipelago, and in a remarkably short time established a trading empire that extended from Southern Africa to Southeast Asia.
