11 sentences with 'spices'
Example sentences and phrases with the word spices and other words derived from it.
• « Along with spices (especially pepper), the silk trade eventually drained huge amounts of gold from Rome, adding up to a serious economic liability over the hundreds of years of trade. »
• « Silk and spices were worth far more than their weight in gold, and their trade created the basis for the first financial markets and banks. »
• « From the Turks, the Italians (especially the large merchant empire controlled by Venice) bought precious cargoes such as spices, silks, porcelain and coffee, in exchange for European wool, handicrafts and gold bullion. »
• « It is difficult to overstate the value of spices during the Middle Ages and Renaissance - Europeans had an unlimited hunger for spices. »
• « As an aside, note that the theory that spices were desirable because they masked the taste of rotten meat is patently false; Europeans in the Middle Ages and Renaissance did not eat rotten food. »
• « The rise of Turkish power in the east posed a problem for the east-west trade routes that Italian cities had benefited from since the time of the Crusades and, despite the agreements reached between Venice and the Ottomans, the profits to be made from the trade in spices and luxury goods diminished (at least for the Italians) over time. »
• « As they had always done, Europeans desperately wanted luxury goods from the East, including spices, silks and porcelain. »
• « While intra-Asian trade routes linking China, Korea, Japan, the western Pacific islands, Southeast Asia and India ensured that Asian states had access to wealth and luxury goods, Europeans had to rely on costly long-distance trade between Asia, the Middle East and Europe to access goods such as spices and porcelain that Europeans desperately wanted (as far as we can conclude based on the prices European elites were willing to pay for them) but could not produce themselves. »
• « Europeans had also long traded with Muslim merchants in North Africa for gold, ivory and spices, and wanted to cut out the middlemen and reach sources further south. »
• « What changed, however, was that Europeans were for the first time able to access directly the sources of luxury goods such as spices, indigo, ivory and gold, and Portugal was at the forefront of European states trying to reach these sources. »
• « For most of the 17th century, the Dutch controlled an enormous amount of the hugely profitable trade in luxury goods and spices from the East Indies as a result. »