Spice trade and Incense trade routes of the ancient world

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Spice trade and Incense trade routes of the ancient world

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"The spice trade involved historical civilizations in Asia, Northeast Africa and Europe. Spices such as cinnamon, cassia, cardamom, ginger, pepper, nutmeg, star anise, clove and turmeric were known and used in antiquity and traded in the Eastern World. These spices found their way into the Near East before the beginning of the Christian era, where the true sources of these spices were withheld by the traders and associated with fantastic tales.

"The maritime aspect of the trade was dominated by the Austronesian peoples in Southeast Asia namely Majapahit kingdom who established the precursor trade routes from Southeast Asia (and later China) to Sri Lanka and India by at least 1500 BC. These goods were then transported by land towards the Mediterranean and the Greco-Roman world via the incense route and the Roman–India routes by Indian and Persian traders. The Austronesian maritime trade lanes later expanded into the Middle East and eastern Africa by the 1st millennium AD, resulting in the Austronesian colonization of Madagascar."

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Incense trade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incense_trade_route

Spice trade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spice_trade

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A key term for this subject is "Silk Road". Look it up if you haven't already come across it.

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Kim O'Hara wrote: Sun Jan 23, 2022 12:19 pm A key term for this subject is "Silk Road". Look it up if you haven't already come across it.

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Ofcourse I have heard about "the silk road", the point is that here is much more to it.
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This is why the “belt and road” project has that name. Refers to both the land and the sea trade routes
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Kim O'Hara wrote: Sun Jan 23, 2022 12:19 pm A key term for this subject is "Silk Road". Look it up if you haven't already come across it.

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I think what's more impressive are Aztecs fighting the Ottomans and Japanese samurai in Mexico!


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Tenma wrote: Mon Jan 24, 2022 5:13 pm I think what's more impressive are Aztecs fighting the Ottomans
If this topic fascinates you then I would recommend Giancarlo Casale’s The Ottoman Age of Exploration.
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