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Whipps looks at the importance of spices in medieval life and traces how trade to and from the Middle East was controlled by a few wealthy families.
Spices were an important component of ancient commerce well before the 15th-century, but were monopolized for centuries by Middle Eastern and North African middlemen who guarded the Asian provenance of their valuable sources closely and became fabulously wealthy for it.
