Trade routes have been the lifeblood of civilizations for thousands of years, connecting cultures, economies, and people across continents. This video offers a detailed map-based summary of the ...

In his new narrative history of Iberian rivalry over the coveted spice trade, Roger Crowley emphasises ... envisaged “an unending map, forever scrolling up over further horizon”, with a ...

T he spice trade was once the world's biggest industry and made merchants rich across the globe. The insatiable appetite for ...

“But nutmeg, now used in pumpkin spice, has the most compressed terrible history. Thousands were killed.” Today, nutmeg has no negative connotations, he said. Photos of Starbucks’s Pumpkin ...