Posts Tagged ‘spice trade’
From the Archives: A Spy in the Spice Trade
One more post from the past dealing with the spice trade You know the beginning of this story. In the fifteenth century, Portugal under the leadership of Prince Henry the Navigator(opens in new tab) * began maritime exploration along the coast of Africa. More or less a hundred years later, a Portuguese fleet commanded by…
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From the Archives: Asia’s Inland Trade, or How the Spice Trade Worked
While writing my most recent newsletter(opens in new tab), I had reason to spend some time thinking about my historical roots, and looking for an old blog post about the organization of the Dutch and British East India Companies. I evidently never wrote that post, but I found a couple of related posts from 2016…
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Asia’s Inland Trade, or How the Spice Trade Worked
The way we learn the story in elementary school in the United States, European trading companies sailed East in search of spices and other luxury goods. What those merchants took with them to trade is generally left unmentioned–perhaps because it makes it clear that Europe was a backwater in the global marketplace until well into…
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