as spices (nutmeg and cloves particularly) fell in value on the global market at the end of the seventeenth century, how did the VOC seek to remedy this? The abandoment of their spice monopoly with a shift toward trade in Japan The increased production of Nutmeg and Cloves by terraforming other Southeast Asian Islands The introduction of new spiced dishes in Europe to increase demand Forced deforestation to limit clove and nutmeg production to only one island each