why did Europe need Asian spices
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because it's the most pure and delicious spices in the planet
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Europe didn’t need Asian spices. It wanted Asian spices. It wanted them for a variety of uses: medicinal, ritual, and culinary.
With the desire for those spices established, most of them had to come from Asia. Some spices like ginger (and some categorized as “spices” at the time but not currently like sugar) were eventually grown closer to Europe. Cyprus, for example, was a major source of sugar for Europe by the Renaissance. Many, though, could not. For example, Europeans didn’t have access to viable seeds for most spices. Though many spices are seeds or at least seed-containing parts of plants (for example, pepper, nutmeg, and cloves), by the time they’d made the long journey to Europe from their sources in Asia, most wouldn’t have been viable. Indeed, some spice producers took deliberate steps to kill any viable seeds like roasting or steaming them before shipping spices out precisely to protect their lucrative monopolies. And even if Europeans had viable seeds, they typically had neither the correct environments for growing them or suitable knowledge of how to cultivate them. Medieval and Renaissance European opinions on the cultivation of pepper, for example, are absurd. Without the ability to make their own, then, they had to import from Asia.