The Portuguese, however, were finding the Spice Islands bittersweet ... envisaged “an unending map, forever scrolling up over further horizon”, with a cartographic revolution “literally ...

An 8-foot-long wooden map of Indonesia spans a wall just beyond the entrance of Indo Spice on West Passyunk ... an archipelago of more than 17,000 islands that range from Southeast Asia into ...

However, with the political turmoil in the Middle East and trade bans, Europeans began to look for a way to the spice-producing islands and that later changed the political map in the Asian region, ...

Collectively, the two island groups were known to European colonizers as the Spice Islands. Map locates the Maluku Islands in eastern Indonesia. It also locates Pulau Rhan, an island in the Banda ...