Global trade
Spices are the seeds, roots, and bark of tropical plants such as black pepper, cinnamon, and cloves.
- Where the pepper grows
- Columbus's navigational methods
- Colonial products (coffee, tea, sugar, etc.)
- Trading Places (how England's trading companies built the British Empire)
- Triangular trade (animated map)
- Yemen's well-traveled bean (coffee)
- Sugar changed the world
- History of sugar cane
- Sugar plantation and refining (illustrations from Diderot's Encyclopedia)
- The sugar and slave trades
- Sugar (Wikipedia)
- How sugar is made
- Sugar and pirates
- Chocolate: The Exhibition (Field Museum); making chocolate (interactive); chocolate challenge
- Dutch East Indies Company
- Encyclopedia of spices
- Another encyclopedia of spices (McCormick)
- Spices
- Spices: Exotic Flavors and Medicines (UCLA)
- History of spices