Spices Worth a Fortune

In the same spirit

• Travellers of the Silk Road

  A Chinese monk walked to India and back over sixteen years to fetch Buddhist texts.

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• From Aztec Coin to Chocolate Bar

  Once you could buy a turkey hen with 100 cacao beans, and the bar came much later.

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• Coffee: Bans and Coffeehouses

  Rulers banned it, and the coffeehouses that sold it became where newspapers were born.

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