CH 14: CAUSATION

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What drove European involvement in the world of Asian commerce?
The most immediate motivation for this massive effort was the desire for tropical spices — cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, cloves, and, above all, pepper — which were widely used as condiments and preservatives and were sometimes regarded as aphrodisiacs. A fifteenth-century English book declared: “Pepper [from Java] is black and has a good smack, And every man doth buy it."  Other products of the East, such as Chinese silk, Indian cottons, rhubarb for medicinal purposes, emeralds, rubies, and sapphires, were also in great demand.

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