Empires were made from the growth and sale of spices and the age of discovery was lunched in pursuit of them. Existing text and historic images explain to children how spices were used to cure the sick, flavor foods, and make perfume. Other topics include
- What is a commodity?
- What is a spice?
- where spices originated and where they are grown today
- how different spices are harvested, manufactured, and processed
- ancient peoples and how they used spices, from flavoring and preserving their foods, to the mummification of bodies!
- how the Crusades changed European tastes
- slavery and the spice trade
