Trail Hongitochten in North Maluku
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Workers dry cloves in Somba Opu District, Gowa Regency, South Sulawesi, Thursday (3/9/2020). ANTARA/Arnas Padda The spice-hunting adventure by European nations began when the Ottoman dynasty in the territory of Turkey hiked prices, thereby resulting in their scarcity in the Blue Continent.
Soaring prices of spices led several kingdoms to take the decision to find their own origin for the commodity, which had become known in Europe through land trade of the Silk Road.
Historian from the University of Indonesia (UI) Dr Bondan Kanumoyoso remarked that spices from Maluku Islands had a long-standing history. In fact, the archaeological excavation of the ancient kingdom of Mesopotamia at the site of Terqa, Syria, led to the discovery of a vase containing cloves named Latin Syzygium aromaticum dating back to around 1,700 BC.
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Union provides 5,250 clove seedlings to farmers in Muheza and Korogwe
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Union provides 5,250 clove seedlings to farmers in Muheza and Korogwe
THE Union for conservation farmers of Kihuhwa Zigi Rivers (Uwamakizi) has dished out 5,250 seedlings of cloves to 100 farmers from seven villages in Muheza and Korogwe districts in Tanga Region.
clove seedlings
Union chairman Twaha Mbarouk revealed this when speaking in Amani area, Muheza District at the function to hand over the seedlings to farmers.
He said the clove seedlings are meant to provide more rooms for farmers to venture into the crop which if well managed it s a key tool to address poverty in the area.
Magellan and the world s first circumnavigation
Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, who died 500 years ago, discovered a passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans today s Strait of Magellan.
The first circumnavigation of the world was unwittingly initiated by Ferdinand Magellan, who died 500 years ago, on April 27, 1521.
A battle-hardened knight and hardy sailor at a young age, he never would have imagined he would be the one to make the key contribution to travelling around the globe.
Born about 1480 in Portugal into a Catholic family of minor nobility, Magellan was influenced by the confining religious ideology of the late Middle Ages and the idea of subjecting the world to Christianity. The era was marked by the epochal shift from the Middle Ages to modern times. In 1492, Christopher Columbus had sailed to America, which inspired other seafarers to go on ever more daring voyages of discovery seeking new lands and fabulous wealth.