I believe it was England's defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588
C, Most of the important food crops in Germany had died
One of the most desired spices, undoubtedly is cinnamon, because it has specific properties,such as preservative, particularly to preserve meat due to its antibacterial characteristic, another reason for being used by physicians to treat cough and sore throats among others.
It comes from Sri Lanka, before called Ceylon (Cinnamomum zeylanicum). Spices were so expensive, that this inspired Cristopher Columbus to find an alternative route to India to obtain them, because this would be a cheaper enterprise than buying them from middlemen and European monopolies.
Washington’s troops, joined by the French forces under de Grasse and Lafayette, soundly defeated the British troops of General Cornwallis at <span>the Siege of Yorktown</span>
