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Spices have fascinated people for centuries due to their roles in cuisine, medicine, trade, and empire building. Spices were discussed in ancient Ayurvedic texts for culinary and medical uses, and were highly valued commodities that drove exploration and colonial expansion as Europeans sought control of the spice trade routes to Asia. Great Greek scholars Hippocrates and Theophrastus wrote about medicinal plants and spices.

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Spices have fascinated people for centuries due to their roles in cuisine, medicine, trade, and empire building. Spices were discussed in ancient Ayurvedic texts for culinary and medical uses, and were highly valued commodities that drove exploration and colonial expansion as Europeans sought control of the spice trade routes to Asia. Great Greek scholars Hippocrates and Theophrastus wrote about medicinal plants and spices.

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Read the passage carefully.

to mask the unpleasant odour of stale meat available after the


long winter storage.
Spices bring to mind images of tempting cuisine, fascinating
voyages and the bitter struggle for independence. Expressions Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, and Theophrastus, a
like ‘variety is the spice of life’ and ‘sugar and spice and all that is Greek scholar and botanist, wrote treatises on medicinal plants,
nice’, explain how spices play upon the literary abilities of men of including spices.
letters.
Answer the following questions briefly:
To orientals, spices are indeed the soul of their food. In the
western world, it evokes dreams of exotic tropical islands, (i) Why do spices fascinate people?
exciting expeditions, and the rise and fall of empires. Columbus
went westwards in 1492, from Europe, to find a sea route to the (ii) What does “Variety is the spice of life” mean?
land of spices, but found the New World. Eight years later, Vasco
da Gama went round Africa and touched Kozhikode on the south (iii) Where did Columbus want to reach?
west coast of India. Long before that, Arabs started trading with
the Orients through land routes. During the 13th century, Marco (iv) What is meant by ‘cuisine’?
Polo began the travelling and experienced attraction of spices.
The European conquests and trade arrangement in India and the (v) What did Susruta and Charaka discuss in detail?
East Indies also have a lot to do with spices.
(vi) What made spices an article of commercial value in
Thousands of years ago, great masters of Ayurveda notably Mediterranean countries?
Susruta and Charaka discussed in detail the uses of spices for
culinary and medicinal purposes. Enterprising soldiers of fortune (vii) Who have written treatises on medicinal plants, including
carried the knowledge of spices to Egypt. There they used spices spices?
and aromatic herbs in food, medicine, cosmetics and for
embalming. The conquest of Egypt and Asia by Alexander the (viii) The word in the passage that means ‘interesting’ is
Great, made spices an article of commercial value in the ___________.
Mediterranean countries and central and northern Europe. There
are reports of pepper being used in the preservation of meat, and

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