Just wondering if anyone has done a deep-dive on the subject.
I am starting to think the so called Ancient Spice Trade was actually due to the value of the spices & herbs medicinal value rather than ‘food flavoring’.
The early maratime trade routes were established world-wide based on the spice trade. Extremely large risks (ocean sailing) and large sums of money were involved.
Are we to believe early industry was basically built around putting some peppercorns on your food to make it taste better???? Or, even some King’s wishes to make his food taste better??
If you read a wiki or other history regarding Ancient Spice Trade and substitute the word ‘medicine’ for ‘spice’ things start to make sense economically.
Making food tase better might not have made the world go round but life saving medicine could have.
Many essential oils have anti-parasitic properties and other spices provide true health benefits as well. This used to be a little woo-woo but is starting to puncture the mainstream bubble.
I think when rocky-fellers rewrote history, they covered it up so they could fill us with sugar and parasites and create the pharma industry.
Thoughts???
I’ve met more than one Veteran who will swear on their life that there wasn’t just the Taliban and Islamists in the Mountains. And that the entire place was a Hellhole
Though Alexander never called Afghanistan “The Graveyard of Empires” though it’s helpful propaganda the Afghanis like to encourage.
The only people who’ve had excessive amounts of difficulty conquering or controlling it. Have largely been Modern European and Western powers. Largely because we restrain what tactics we consider acceptable.
Hell. Were it not for the CIA funneling Guns, Explosives, Trainers and Money into Afghanistan. It’s quite feasibile the Soviets would have succeeded.
There wasn’t even really a notion of an “Afghanistan” till the 1700s. Prior to that it was a backwater frontier of loosely affiliated tribes that changed hands regularly between various Empires. None of which fell due to their presence in Afghanistan.
So they made up the Alexander quote in between kid fucking sessions.
And yes. There has to be something evil up there.
To quote Gandalf in LOTR “There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world.”
There’s God knows how many cave systems and tunnels there. Lord only knows how deep they go.