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Spices: Dawn of the Modern Age

Spices: Dawn of the Modern Age. “For Christ and spices!” . Vasco da Gama . Malabar Coast (India). Great demand & highly controlled supply. Vasco de Gama arrival in Calecut on 1498. Ceremonial & culinary function. I nadequate food-preserving techniques.

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Spices: Dawn of the Modern Age

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  1. Spices:Dawn of the Modern Age

  2. “For Christ and spices!” Vasco da Gama Malabar Coast (India)

  3. Great demand & highly controlled supply

  4. Vasco de Gama arrival in Calecut on 1498 Ceremonial & culinary function

  5. Inadequate food-preserving techniques

  6. Emissaries from a fabled world

  7. Status symbols for the ruling class

  8. Means of separating the classes

  9. Borrowed culture

  10. Foreign trade was the spice trade:most highly prized luxury goods

  11. 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.

  12. Change in taste signaled the end of the Middle Ages and the dawn of the modern age

  13. Crisis! increased demand stagnant transportation technology spiraling customs duties

  14. Spices lured the Old World into the New, where it lost its way

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