The correct answer is letter D
In the last centuries of the Low Middle Ages, Europe underwent a series of transformations that marked its entry into the modern period. The conflicts and epidemics that took over the Old World were followed by a slow process of recovery of commercial activities between the 14th and 15th centuries. One of the main places of negotiation was India, a place where the much coveted spices were found in large quantities.
Initially, goods from India arrived by sea and land. However, European merchants did not have the opportunity to do business directly with Indian traders. To achieve the desired spices, they needed to submit to the commercial monopoly exercised by the Arabs, who at that time controlled the Mediterranean Sea, or to make huge caravans that, in the case of Italian merchants, reached the regions of Beirut and Lebanon.
In general, spices had a great presence in European cuisine and medicine. Amid the rise of the bourgeois class and the reestablishment of the noble class, the spices and flavors from India provided an unprecedented sensory experience for medieval palates. Access to these products, in addition to offering a more comfortable living condition, ended up becoming an element that could distinguish the elite from the others.
