The Spice Ports: Mapping the Origins of the Global Sea Trade

1. The Merchants of Venice with Marco Polo, a pioneering map-maker,
Shakespeare’s Play and Galileo’s Telescope
2. Alexandria, Gateway to the East with Napoleon’s dream, the Suez Canal, the Periplus,
Aden and a taste of coffee
3 Goa and the Malabar Coast and ecclesiastical and other figures who found fame there
4 Lisbon, Queen of the Sea the search for a direct route to India andthe making of a national poet
5 Malacca and the Malay Worlda Chinese admiral, round-the-word sailor andfoundations of the law of the sea
6 Amsterdam and the birth of the Netherlands credit to an early spy, plus spices, tulips and thebirth of the limited company
7 Batavia and the Spice Islandsseeking the original source of spices amid thousands of islands
8 Cape Town and other Taverns of the Seas rivalry in the Indian Ocean, Napoleon meets thefounder of Singapore
9 Bombay, Gateway of India a Royal dowry, the American civil war, cotton, tea and opium
10 London, Warehouse of the World oceans give command over the world, plus Longitude,Newton and Darwin
11 New York, Salem and the Manhattan Transfer a territorial swap consolidates British control over spicesand North America
12 Singapore, Lion City another island state takes off with help from nutmeg,rubber and ingenuity
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