Get your sea legs ready, we’re sailing through a convoluted mess of trade routes and accidental discoveries! In this episode, Clara tells Sabrina about the Europeans' ravenous thirst for spices they mostly no longer use in modern day, and all the inefficient things they did to make the trip to Asia more efficient. Also, we break the news to Christopher Columbus that he did not, in fact, find India. He didn’t even find America either, actually. And once we navigate our way to the Panama canal, we’ll explain how the cure for malaria also created happy hour. So grab your tonic water, and prepare to have your preconceptions shaken like a gin and tonic in the hands of a clueless explorer. It's gonna be one heck of a voyage!

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SOURCES:

History.com - Panama Canal

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Wikipedia - Austronesian peoples 

Slate - The Imperial Cocktail

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