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	Spice trade Summary
		Spices brought to Europe from distant lands along the so-called spice route were some of the most valuable commodities for their weight, sometimes rivaling gold.
		Ibn Khordadbeh also reported that spices were brought from the east to Europe by Jewish merchants known as the Radhanites; in other sources, such as the writings of Gregory of Tours, Jews are reported to have enjoyed a virtual monopoly on the trade in Western Europe during the late Merovingian and early Carolingian periods.
		The ideal of the Spice Islands, eventually to be enveloped by the Netherlands' Dutch East Indies empire, had led to the accidental discovery of the West Indies, and lit the fuse of centuries of rivalry between European maritime powers for control of lucrative global markets and resources.
	www.bookrags.com /Spice_trade (1566 words)

	THE SPICE ISLANDS
		Today the importance of the Spice Islands is as one of the few surviving areas of primary tropical rainforest with a rich natural history.
		Spices were also used for medicinal purposes, especially in the relief of colic, gout and rheumatism.
		Along with the spice traders came military forces and missionaries keen on converting the natives of the islands.
	www.iol.ie /~spice/Indones.htm (836 words)

	Pilot Guides.com: Spice Wars in the Banda Islands
		They are called the spice islands for their crops of nutmeg, cloves and mace.
		Spices had value not only for their exotic and unique flavours but also their medicinal properties, balancing the "humours" of the body and as a symbol of extreme opulence and luxury.
		Already the island is beginning to take off as a tourist destination for the rich and famous, attracted by some of the richest and most varied marine life in the world and its smouldering island active volcano, Gunung Api.
	www.pilotguides.com /destination_guide/asia/indonesia/spice_wars.php (548 words)

	Spices and the Spice Islands
		Spices were valued, as they are today, for the exciting flavour they can add to food and drinks.
		Health was believed to depend on a balance of the four fluids or "humours" in the body and correct spicing of foods was important to retaining or rectifying the balance of the humours.
		The name of the highest island Gunning Api means "fire mountain": it is a volcanic cone and the largest of the islands is the remains of huge crater wall.
	www.duyfken.com /original/spice-islands.html (612 words)

	Straight Dope Staff Report: Why are there so many spices in the Spice Islands?
		The significance of the islands lies not so much in the variety of spices available there as in their historical position as a source of spices that were new to European tables during the Age of Exploration.
		The history of the Spice Islands is long, exotic, exciting, and rich with colorful characters and stories, nearly all of which I'm going to ignore to keep this article to a reasonable length.
		The reputation of the Spice Islands no doubt arises from their importance in the larger spice trade of south Asia, which, as a trip out to the curry buffet at lunch will confirm, is rich with a variety of lovely spices.
	www.straightdope.com /mailbag/mspiceislands.html (1189 words)

	Spices & The Spice Routes: The Spice Islands
		Spices and The Spice Routes: The Spice Islands
		n 1603, when the first English colony anywhere was founded on the Bandanese island of Run, ten pounds of nutmeg could be bought from its natives for a halfpenny a pound and resold in europe for a profit, at least by one estimate, of a staggering 32,000 percent.
		imilarly, Ternate and Tidore and three smaller islands adjacent to the island of Halmahera in the Northern Moluccas, the exclusive home of the cloves trees, were equally prized destinations.
	www.geocities.com /~ascole/spices/SpiceIslands.html (145 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for spice
		Moluccas or Spice Islands, Bahasa Indonesia Maluku, Du.
		The capital of the province is Ambon, on Ambon island.
		A plant of the family Labiatae (mint family), Origanum vulgare, also called Spanish thyme and wild marjoram, is the usual source for the spice sold as oregano in the Mediterranean countries and in the United States.
	www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=spice (690 words)

	Maluku Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The vegetation of the small and narrow islands, encompassed by the sea, is very luxuriant; including rainforests, sago, rice, and the famous spices--nutmeg, cloves and mace (spice), among others.
		Although cultures varied across this dispersed group of islands, there is a sense in which the Moluccas were a cosmopolitan society, in that traders from across the region took residence in Moluccan settlements, or in nearby enclaves, to conduct spice business.
		Its capital is Ternate, on a small island to the west of the large island of Halmahera.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maluku_Islands (1379 words)

	The Spice Trade - A Taste of Adventure
		Spices could change hands a dozen times between their source and Europe, soaring in value with each transaction, and the Arabs were the greatest of the middlemen.
		The spices were jealously guarded by vicious birds of prey, he wrote, which made their nests of the stuff on steep mountain slopes.
		The spices that were once limited to tiny islands in hidden archipelagoes were being grown around the world and in large quantities.
	www.theepicentre.com /Spices/spicetrd.html (4299 words)

	History of the Spice Trade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		During these ancient times spices were probably traded from local merchant to local merchant and made their way slowly from east to west (with the volume of each spice decreasing and its economic importance increasing with each trade).
		So lucrative was the spice trade that after his conquest of Egypt in 332–331 BCE Alexander the Great founded Alexandria as a port for the extension of the spice trade into the Mediterranean.
		So desparate were the VOC for a foothold on the spice islands (especially the nutmeg islands of the Banda archipelago) that they exchanged one of their early colonies in the Americas, the swamp of New Amsterdam, for the British Island of Run.
	www.celtnet.org.uk /recipes/spice_trade.php (7269 words)

	Spice History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Spices were rare and precious products, and they played a dramatic role in the development of Western civilization.
		The Bible refers to the spice trade in Genesis when Joseph's brothers sell him to a spice trading caravan bound for Egypt, and in the book of Kings when the Queen of Sheba pays tribute to King Solomon in spices, gold and precious stones.
		Most of the spices that once ruled the trade, including cinnamon, pepper, nutmeg, cloves, and ginger, are still grown in Asia.
	www.globetrends.com /allaboutspices/SpiceHistory.htm (987 words)

	The Spice Garden
		Yet in The Spice Garden, his debut novel, Michael Vatikiotis, editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review, has constructed an engrossing narrative of mass hysteria and mob violence set in the Maluku archipelago, Indonesia's spice islands, during the horrific bloodbath hat swept across the area in 1999-2000.
		We are reminded regularly of the reality of life on the island, with the sights and smells of the once invaluable noli trees, the importance of fishing and the smells of charcoal fires.
		Noli, the island, is not only remote from the rest of the country, it has also dropped out of the minds of those in the political elite in Jakarta, maybe because it has ceased to be of pecuniary interest to them.
	www.equinoxpublishing.com /spiceg/default.htm (2736 words)

	Medicinal Spices Exhibit - UCLA Biomedical Library: History & Special Collections
		The quintessential spice is nutmeg: it was a highly valued exotic flavor source that grew only in the remote Spice Islands.
		It was generally imported with its companion from the Spice Islands, the aromatic clove.
		As an outcome of their fateful discovery, the Moluccan Islands remained under Portugese control until these colonials were ousted by the Dutch in the first quarter of the 17th century.
	unitproj.library.ucla.edu /biomed/spice/index.cfm?displayID=19 (887 words)

	Spice Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For the islands' internal history, see Maluku Islands.
		The Moluccas were, until the late eighteenth century, the only source of economically significant spices including clove, nutmeg and mace.
		Islands of northern Indonesia and southern Philippines, commonly called the Spice Islands
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spice_Islands (653 words)

	SPICE ISLANDS COFFEE AGENCIES
		Across Indonesia's vast Archipelago, from the islands of Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, Timor, Flores, Sumbawa, Lombok, Bali and Irian Jaya, come a diversity of coffee types and origins unmatched by any single coffee producer anywhere else in the world.
		Whilst the islands' rich volcanic soils, plentiful rainfall and ideal tropical climate provide superb coffee growing conditions, it was the arrival of Portuguese, Dutch, Spanish and British traders in the 17
		Century ---- initially attracted by the Archipelago's exotic spice trades ---- which resulted in a colonial presence and the introduction of valuable plantation crops such as tea, sugar, rubber, cocoa, teak, and coffee.
	www.spiceisles.com (206 words)

	Spices: Cloves
		Your fleets are victorious and continue east to claim the Spice Islands, the native home of the famed clove tree.
		In the mid 1700’s, a Frenchman, Pierre Poivre, stole some clove trees from the Spice Islands and began to produce cloves in present day Mauritius off the east coast of Africa.
		Today, large clove producing areas continue to be islands in the Indian Ocean east of Africa such as Mauritius, Zanzibar, Pemba, and Madagascar, Brazil, and the islands of Indonesia, the original Spice Islands.
	www.herbaleducator.com /spices_cloves.html (564 words)

	Asia Times: The Spice Islands' legacy of violence
		JAKARTA - Ambon, the capital of the province of the Moluccas Islands, or Maluku to Indonesians and the Spice Islands to romantics, has been the setting for three years of inter-religious violence.
		In the Spice Islands, it all started 500 years ago with Halmahera, the main island, the battlefield for rivalry and regional supremacy between the sultanates of Tidore and Ternate.
		The top-down violence of 500 years in the Spice Islands and the contemporary violence in an Indonesia struggling to come to terms with a fast-changing world may yet extract their pounds of flesh.
	www.atimes.com /se-asia/DB15Ae01.html (1898 words)

	ASTA Spice History Timeline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Biblical history tells of Joseph of the coat of many colors being sold to spice caravan by his brothers.
		Charles V of Spain cedes all rights Spain had claimed in Spice Islands to Portugal for 350,000 ducats.
		Spice usage in the U.S. passes the half billion pound mark for the first time.
	www.astaspice.org /history/timeline.htm (746 words)

	Nutmeg
		The nutmeg tree is a large evergreen native to the Moluccas (the Spice Islands) and is now cultivated in the West Indies.
		The Arabs were the exclusive importers of the spice to Europe up until 1512, when Vasco de Gama reached the Moloccas and claimed the islands for Portugal.
		The Dutch were especially cautious, since the part of the fruit used as a spice is also the seed, so that anyone with the spice could propagate it.
	www.theepicentre.com /Spices/nutmeg.html (1093 words)

	FT.com / Arts & Weekend - The seafood and spice islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Looking at a map of the Maldive Islands in the Indian Ocean is akin to looking at a map of constellations in the sky: tiny dots in a deep blue wonderworld, impossible to imagine or grasp.
		One of the well-known island resorts I visited, Cocoa Island in the South Malé Atoll, was uninhabited in the late 1970s.
		Perhaps because the island is wooded and much larger than Cocoa Island - about 2.25km in length - guests do not get the feeling of being cast adrift - albeit luxuriously - in the middle of a calm, see-through sea, with the watery world on their doorstep.
	news.ft.com /cms/s/0f44a0ca-f7a4-11da-9481-0000779e2340.html (1235 words)

	How did the Dutch control the Spice Islands? - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Yet when the surviving ships returned in 1597 to Texel, an island port of the Netherlands, the ships were loaded with valuable spices and had a treaty with a sultan in Java.
		Over the next 15 years, the population of the Banda Islands was reduced from an estimated 15,000 to less than 1,000.
		In 1623, the Dutch took the English colony on the island of Ambon and rid the area of the last non-VOC traders.
	www.killerplants.com /plants-that-changed-history/20040113.asp (702 words)

	Amazon.com: The Spice Islands Voyage: The Quest for Alfred Wallace, the Man Who Shared Darwin's Discovery of Evolution: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		No mere travelogue of palm-fringed beaches and photogenic natives, Tim Severin's The Spice Islands Voyage is a rewarding mix of historical biography, contemporary adventure travel, and firm (but not shrill) warnings for the future of this exotic East Indonesian island group.
		Spices at The Tubular Spice Co — Premium and organic spices.
		I bought this book to read about Maluku (the "Spice Islands"), one of my favourite regions in the World, but instead found myself reading far too much about the author's obsession with Alfred Wallace, whose voyages he is trying to follow.
	www.amazon.com /Spice-Islands-Voyage-Discovery-Evolution/dp/0786705183 (2249 words)

	Metroactive Dining \| Spice Islands Cafe
		The Spice Islands Cafe is one such place.
		Influences from the ancient kitchens of China and India, threads of flavor from Vietnam and Cambodia--all are stitched together with fruit and coconut from the tropical islands.
		Exceptional cooking technique coupled with flawless presentation prove that the Spice Islands Cafe is a restaurant very clear about its mission: To provide authentic native dishes in a pleasant environment.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/02.07.02/dining-0206.html (642 words)

	Spice Islands clashes continue - Worthy News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		According to news reports, the fatalities resulted from clashes between Muslims and Christians in the town of Galela on the island of Halmahera in North Malaku province.
		Indonesian press reports said the clashes were the worst of any religious conflict since the country achieved independence half a century ago.
		In mid-January the violence spread to other parts of the Moluccas, including the tourist resort island of Lombok, near Bali.
	www.worthynews.com /news-features/newsroom-spice-islands.html (359 words)

	Spice Islands - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Spice Islands" at HighBeam.
		Call me the SPICE ISLAND GIRL; Kirsty Gallacher takes a break from presenting sport on television for a romantic holiday on friendly Grenada.
		Spice up your life For centuries, the quest for exotic flavours has driven travellers to the magical East African island of Zanzibar
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-x-spiceisl.html (224 words)

	Medicinal Spices Exhibit - UCLA Biomedical Library: History & Special Collections
		Currently, clove trees are grown in such places as Zanzibar, Madagascar and Mauritius, as well as in Ternate, Tidore and a couple of other of the northern Spice Islands and in Indonesia.
		Fortunes were made in the East Indian and Spice Island trade, since precious spices brought huge rewards to successful importers.
		A certain Elihu Yale, who was born in 1649 in Boston, made his fortune as a spice merchant in India; he gave material support from his family home in Wales to help build up the institution that was to become Yale University.
	unitproj.library.ucla.edu /biomed/spice/index.cfm?displayID=7 (684 words)

	Spice Islands, Spice Island, Old Spice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		spice islands We pay was qualified to take in the doctor's office.
		spice island Using brute force her way forward elbows to make something...
		spice islands Say it reached by it in the seconds was time...
	nutopy.info /swd30/spice.html (343 words)

	The Spice Islands
		Most of the islands in the region are the visible parts of huge coral reefs.
		The island is so small, you can take a walk all around it in about 1-2 hours, depending on whether you stroll along and admire the clear waters of the sea, or whether you put your head down and plunge ahead.
		The best part of Prison Island is a spot where, if you know how to swim, you can put on snorkelling gear, and see the abundant marine life within the corals.
	www.varma.net /articles/spice.php (1137 words)

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