Different Kinds of Spices
As the majority of the world's spices come from South East Asia, the spice trade helped drive the global economy starting in the Middle Ages. The Silk Road was a dangerous and long trade route that went from China to Europe. Sailing helped to speed up the shipment of spices. In search of a faster root to India, Christopher Columbus chose to sail east, landing in North America instead. It is believed that this mistake in continents is why Indigenous peoples were wrongly named "Indians."
