The Levant Spice Trade
How Latin merchants regained, fought over and lost the spice trade at Alexandria, from the papal licences of 1344 to the Cape route.
- Area
- Economy and trade
- Stage
- In testing
- Kind of change
- New system
- Dev diaries
- #3
A situation that follows the Latin merchants at Alexandria: papal licences, the Sultan’s favour, the state galleys, rivals’ fondachi, the Sultan’s tariff on pepper, and the endings that closed the trade: a crusade, a change of master in Egypt, or the Cape route.
The situation changes conditions (trade offices, maps, opinions, merchant power, tariffs). It never moves goods by script: the trade engine decides what flows.
