1.   Columbus set out from Europe to discover a new route for the spice trade from the Orient.

2.   And now the spice trade is pointing toward stability and hope for the future in Indonesia.

3.   And the tumult in Indonesia has made the spice trade more volatile than ever, says Raymond Lee at Tai Eng.

4.   Students were given detailed maps of Eurasia and asked if the dotted routes represent the Crusades or the spice trade.

5.   The Portuguese, more interested in the lucrative spice trade with China and Japan, rarely fought the Chinese and never claimed Macao as Portuguese territory.

6.   The spice is believed to have first been cultivated in Persia, but it established roots here through the spice trade.

7.   To know the spice trade is to know a good deal about Indonesia.

8.   Today the spice trade is no longer the road to riches it once was.

9.   Zanzibar, once a center of the spice trade, has been attracting the tourist trade of late.

10.   Piggybacking on the reputation built during the spice trade, it is easy to begin international trading in ethnic Indian products like silk or sandalwood.