The second time that watched this documentary my children joined me and I considered it part of homeschooling (even though we watched it on the weekend.) I even drew these coloring pages and made copies for my children to color.
Nutmeg is native to the Banda Islands, which was a closely guarded secret by spice traders for many many years. When the European companies and governments finally figured out where nutmeg was coming from each power tried securing a monopoly on nutmeg. In the end England ceded their Banda Island to Holland as a trade for what Holland called New Amsterdam in America. New Amsterdam's name was changed and today we know it as Manhattan Island of New York!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/11gy7ypraOyYkr99KzdZ7S6RfD9orzyu0/view?usp=drivesdk
https://drive.google.com/file/d/11WghLsYNdG-ul3Si-kqs--vmNHripS5P/view?usp=drivesdk
I thought it was such a good idea so I drew it like this:
3 comments:
Thanks for the link to the nutmeg documentary, as well as the links to the worksheets, which I printed out. We really enjoyed watching the documentary and then following up with the coloring pages as a fun summer homeschooling activity! I learned a lot, too :)
-Alyssa
Thank you for the comment, Alyssa! I am glad to hear that the link for the pictures worked. Thank you for letting me know that you enjoyed the post.
That's probably why some areas in NYC have still "Dutch" names, such as Brooklyn (Breukelen in Dutch), or Harlem (Haarlem in Dutch).
The spice grade and the VOC history is a subject we learned a lot about in Dutch schools, but mainly from the colonizers point of view. It's been just few years that also the perspective of the indigenous people living in Indonesia have been taken into consideration, which I think is important, as the Dutch owe their wealth mainly due to the spice trade and everything that involved that (colonizing countries, slavery etc).
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