Question

By this time, southern India's Indian Ocean trade had grown highly profitable from the spice trade in such rare spices as nutmeg, ginger, cinnamon, and cloves, but especially ________, a spice which would drive what ultimately became the world's first global trading system.

Answer 1

Answer:

Indian pepper

Explanation:

The evolution of spice trade has a great significance in the history of Asia, North Africa, and Europe. Pliny the elder even exerted that all gold from the world would be dumped in the Indian subcontinent because of their supremacy over the spice trade. Spice was an important commodity of trade in European land because it could preserve the meat for a long time. Later the Portuguese and Dutch started trading network with India in lure of the high profit they gained from the spice trade.