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They were very important because, well there are two reasons:

1. Salt helped preserve food.

2. When they food started to go bad, people put the spices on it so a. the food would not taste bad b. the food would not smell bad.

Another thing about spices is that there was not enough in certain places so explorers went off to other countries to find more.

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