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The spice trade has been of major economic importance throughout human history and it particularly helped spur the Age of Exploration. Spices brought to Europe from distant lands along the so-called spice route were some of the most valuable commodities for their weight, sometimes rivaling gold. The word spice derives from the Latin species, which in its later history came to mean goods or products, often of small volume and high value [1].