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Santhosh
11/8/2013 01:43:30 pm
Gamma Landed in Calicut,Kerala on 20 May 1498,He was in search of spices and that is my home land we still grow those spices.
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Samir Chatterjee
11/9/2013 04:39:12 am
Spices... Amen
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Deepak Mittal
11/12/2013 01:21:59 pm
Spices were known in these countries from much earlier - largely because of medicinal use. The trade was however controlled by Arabs and Venetians, Hence the quest to find a sea route which bypassed Arab.
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DChat
11/13/2013 06:31:27 am
Al - great comments! Interesting perspective on who discovered what first. I guess we depend a lot on who writes the history books first, especially since there can be multiple versions!
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