down but this wasn't enough for the germans that same year the german empire annexed nauru into its martial islands protectorate the first thing the kaiser's troops did on landing was to place all NUMBER_TOKEN chiefs under house arrest and declare they'd kill them unless every single gun on the island was handed over in all NUMBER_TOKEN weapons were surrendered and with that the age of war inauru ended and the age of occupation began for the first few years nauru's experience of colonialism was relatively benign it was so remote and seemingly useless that the germans kept only the laziest eye on it that this state of affairs changed at all is thanks to albert fularelis a british subject born in australia ellis was a NUMBER_TOKEN year old guy working in sydney for the pacific islands company when he became weirdly obsessed by a company door stop propping open one of the doors in his office the heavy lump was supposedly a piece of petrified wood that someone had brought from naoru but being the sort of funtimes guy who knew his petrified wood from his regular door stops ellis was all like that thing nah bry that's something else and he started running some tests and this was the most lucrative decision of his life the doorstop was actually a giant lump of phosphate ore a fertilizer capable of producing gigantic harvests dashing to nauru ellis ran more tests soon discovering that the whole wilderness region known as topside was rich in phosphate neither the naurens nor the germans had realized it but they were sitting on a harvest worth crazy money just below their feet lay an ancient coral bed the gaps between its jagged peaks filled with phosphate phosphate that could be mined and sold at the small cost of destroying all the topsoil it was the beginning of the exploitation of nauru of an industrial operation that would both make its owners filthy rich and utterly annihilate the island's ecology now just before we get into the rest of today's video let me tell you a little bit about today's fantastic sponsor squarespace now a couple of simple things maybe number one you've got an idea for some website or business that you want to start well two the only way to figure out if that's worth doing is to get it out there into the world and that can of course be daunting because it's scary to pursue new things but not knowing how to set up a website it's no excuse there are no excuses available with squarespace squarespace allows you to create a powerful website for whatever you want to do want to sell something online yes set up a store with squarespace want to start a podcast maybe a youtube channel well you want a website to complement it won't you it all starts on squarespace with a beautiful template that you can customize to your heart's content or you can start from scratch or you can move over from an existing domain making everything super easy to manage but take my advice don't start from scratch just use one of their amazingly beautiful templates once you've gone through the super easy customization process there's no updates there's no patches there's no technical bs to worry about and squarespace also handle all of that websitey stuff mailing social integrations member areas the list just goes on
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