Spices: Dawn of the Modern Age
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Spices:Dawn of the Modern Age
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“For Christ and spices!”
Vasco da Gama Malabar Coast (India)
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Great demand & highly controlled supply
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Vasco de Gama arrival in Calecut on 1498
Ceremonial & culinary function
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Inadequate food-preserving techniques
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Emissaries from a fabled world
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Status symbols for the ruling class
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Means of separating the classes
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Borrowed culture
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Foreign trade was the spice trade:most highly prized luxury goods
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Spice trade lucrative, complex & prone to dislocation
Venice(Venice, as rendered by Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis in his Kitab-i Bahriye,
a book of portolan charts and sailing directions produced in the early 16th century.
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Change in taste signaled the end of the Middle Ages and the dawn of the modern age
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Crisis!
• increased demand
• stagnant transportation technology
• spiraling customs duties
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Spices lured the Old World into the New, where it lost its way