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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 9597429" data-attributes="member: 177">With respect, you probably need to do more to establish cause-and-effect there.  I think you'll find that there's a more basic issue at work - the farther north you go in the northern hemisphere, the less the climate supports growing of plants that qualify as "spices" - the compounds in those plants typically take more energy to produce, and so they don't grow well in colder regions with less direct sun and shorter growing seasons.This will be true whether or not the country was poor, or colonizers.</blockquote>