All Series I stories

Story Plate II, from Episode 11

Pepper

Through a chain of middlemen, pepper reached Europe at twenty times its Indian price. In 1498 Vasco da Gama reached Calicut by sea. Of about 170 men who sailed, about 55 came home, and the voyage paid for itself sixty times over.

Source

Roger Crowley, Conquerors

On the plate

Lisbon, the Cape of Good Hope, Calicut, 1498