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