Black Pepper
Pepper: the Most Important Spice in the World
Cocoa
Medicinal Spices Exhibit: Chocolate
Coffee
World's Coffee Manners and Customs
Cotton
India and the History of Cotton
When Cotton was Banned: Indian Cotton Textiles in Early Modern England
Indian Textiles: Trade and Production
The Spread of Cotton and Slavery (UOregon)
Cotton (Tennessee)
Gunpowder
Technological Advances During the Song
Gunpowder: Origins in the East
Vanilla
The History of Vanilla (National Geographic)
The Bittersweet Story of Vanilla (Smithsonian Magazine)
A Vanilla Story (Medium)
Nutmeg
No Innocent Spice (NPR)
Nutmeg & Mace (UCLA Libraries)
Nutmeg: The Unsavory History (Thought Co.)
Consider Nutmeg (Guardian)
Ivory
The East African Ivory Trade in the Nineteenth Century
Porcelain
East and West: Chinese Export Porcelain
History of Pottery and Porcelain
The European Obsession with Porcelain
Rice
Gale Virtual Reference Library: Rice
Rum
A Tale Told over Cocktails: 'Bottle of Rum'
Silk
Textile Production in Europe: Silk, 1600–1800
Silk (UWash)
Silk in Antiquity (Ancient History Encyclopedia)
Silk Road (Smithsonian)
Spices
Sugar
The Sugar Trade in the West Indies and Brazil Between 1492 and 1700
How Sugar is Made - the History
Medicinal Spices Exhibit: Sugar
Sugar: History of the World (Saveur)
Sugar: The Unsavory History (NYTimes)
The History of Sugar (Aliementarium)
Tea
Tea Consumers, Tea Trade, and Colonial Cultivation
Tobacco
The Culture of Tobacco in 17th and 18th Century Europe
The European Tobacco Trade from the 15th to the 17th Centuries
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