Why were spices important in history?

Answer 1

As answered similarly before by someone else, spices were used to add blending taste (pepper, chillies, etc.) to the food which we eat. Therefore, they were used for trade by many countries which increased the national income of that country.

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Answer 2

In the Middle Ages, Spices were seen as a sign of wealth. The higher the rank of a household, the greater its use of spices. Spices were used to flavour both food and drink and also, some spices were used for aiding digestion. Spices were presented as gifts as well.

In the time of the Renaissance, spices were used to preserve food, since the refrigerator hadn't been invented yet. They were used for making perfume, incense and medicine too.

Answer 3

Because the food was awful tasting and it was mushy, rotten, or over cooked. Spices made it better. Salt was so valuable that it was kept in salt cellars ( little boxes) and only the head table got salt. That's where the saying "below the salt" came from.

Answer 4

There were really important to them because they were used for ointmants, medicines, to flavor food, to trade and get money buy selling them.

Answer 5

Europeans found spices desirable because they increased the amount of time in which meat was edible. Without spices, meat spoiled quickly.

Answer 6

Because different people had different ones and they priced them high so the poor couldn’t get them and the others who didn’t have the spice could also not get them