Spice Road
Published on Nov 23, 2015
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COUNTRIES INVOLVED IN SPICE ROAD
- India, Brazil, Portugal, China and Yemen as well as many other counties have taken part in spice trade over the past centuries.
- Earliest countries to partake are traced back to medieval Europe, in England and France and Egypt.
- Babylonia, Carthage, Rome
GOODs BEING TRANSPORTED
- Nut meg and cinnamon were brought from a port city of Basra and Sailers
- Would bring them to Baghdad to trade. In one of the earliest spice roots
- Around 1498 Portuguese would trade with India as well as other the biggest product the Portuguese traded was black pepper
- Greeks also traded cinnamon with Arabian countries .
TIME PERIOD
- Archeologists BElieve that as far back as 50000 BC people have been using spices to help flavor their foods.
- Spice trading however was most prominent during the age of discovery , and around the late 1400s into the late 1500s
HOW DOES THIS IMPACT US TODAY
- Though we don't necessarily trade with ships or boats , we still import our spices from other countries in cases that a spice is not native to where we live.
- Our trade provider in our day, instead of merchants are our supermarkets are who we buy from but trade it alive and well.
COUNTRY STILL EFFECTED BUY SPICE TRADE
- Since the discovery of North America , there has been trade to the European counties.
- Because of exports, Europe was able to get goods that they didn't have.
- They were looking for a quicker spice route, when North America was discovered
- Because of imports of spices and goods North America was able to be colonized.
