When I red a book entitled Dewa Ruci: Pelayaran Pertama Menaklukkan Tujuh Samudra by Cornelis Kowaas. One of the chapters told about the glorious of Banda, Maluku. Marvelous! When I red this book, I just realized that in the past centuries, Banda was struggled by Netherlands and England. Indeed, “Banda’s enchantment” competed with New York which called New Amsterdam at the past time. When Banda Island More Precious Than New York Believe or not, rempah-rempah “spice” (nutmeg, clove, pepper) was the main factor which supported world’s developing movement. Based on ancient history recorded, spices had brought to Middle East for more than four thousand years ago through sea and land tracks. Then, it continued to the Middle East through the well-known silk road and come out to the mountain and desert. Experts said that in the 2600 BC, Egyptian gave the spice that took from Asia to the laborer who built Pyramid in order to have extra power. According to archaeological sites recorded that Mesopotamia, now is Syria, had took the advantage of the spice from Maluku to home needed function. It seemed, spice made Aria who have high cultural level moved to India. European people should pay more expensive to get the spice that controlled by Arabian trader. Therefore, European people attempted to find the sources that they say it located in the sacred island of bird paradise spot where the birds never flew away surround it but landed when they dead. This case occurred the desire to discover the source of spices. The journey’s note from China to Asia by Marco Polo affected European people. This matter supported Columbus’ sailing to America. He named the people who have dark skin in the new continent as “Indian” and he also invented the red spicy fruits called red pepper. He
When I red a book entitled Dewa Ruci: Pelayaran Pertama Menaklukkan Tujuh Samudra by Cornelis Kowaas. One of the chapters told about the glorious of Banda, Maluku. Marvelous! When I red this book, I just realized that in the past centuries, Banda was struggled by Netherlands and England. Indeed, “Banda’s enchantment” competed with New York
