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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
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    • Geography resources
    • Podcasts on history and the news
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