i don't know.It is a long story
The british and definately not the spanish
The moors vasco de gama discovered the spice after traveling to India
Arabs
The Dutch
Portugal started shipping spices from Asia.
Portugal
Magellan went to open the "Spice route" without damaging relations with Portugal.
portugal found a water route to asia fmot&Ig @AmerisLove
Portugal
Italy lost a monopoly
Portugal lost control of the spice trade because of the Netherlands keeping them out of some of the best ports for spices.
42 years