We were left with the promise of Achaemenid and talk about how the great empire that lasted 220 years, influenced the spread of oriental spices.
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successors of the Assyrians and the Medes, the Achaemenid gave birth in 550 BC and the largest empire in ancient history, initiated by Cyrus the Great.
was the largest and most powerful empire ever seen before, and was well governed and organized.
It reached its greatest extent under Darius I, east to the Indus Basin to the west and East Africa and Greece.
instituted a system of charges for each tax satrapy, adopted and improved the already advanced Assyrian postal system.
He built the famous Royal Road, linking the extremes of the empire.
moved the central administration from Persepolis to Susa, Babylon and closer to the center of the kingdom. The Persians were tolerant of local cultures, following the precedent established by Cyrus the Great, an attitude that greatly reduced the revolts of subject peoples.
As for the kitchen and the spices were used mainly local ones, such as mustard, cumin, coriander, dill, black cumin and mint, in addition to the trio of allium garlic, onion and leek. Also worked as Persia catchment area and reservoir species grown in India, both for internal use, in part, for export to the western borders of the empire.
The peoples of Arabia, were free to take a huge and profitable commercial profit from this huge market that was developing in the Middle East and the ports and trade routes which were under the protection of the Persians.
While we were developing more and more different ways of silk from China through Central Asia, reached the Mediterranean, kept the business flourishing on the sea routes between southern India and the coasts of East Africa.
The definition and maintenance of these trade routes through empires pacified large parts of Eurasia, it reduced the risks associated with long-distance trade, actually increasing it significantly.
But with goods, products, people and spices, also passed through the cultures.
Water, air, earth, fire
In 500 BC on the western borders of the Achaemenid Empire, the Greek colonies erano in piena rivolta, ed iniziava la lunga guerra greco-persiana.
Sempre in quel periodo, però, prendeva forma il Corpus Hippocraticum , una raccolta di 72 libri che probabilmente furono scritti tra il V e il IV secolo a.C. non tutti attribuibili ad Ippocrate (considerato il padre della medicina).
Quasi contemporaneamente, in India, intorno al 300 a.C. vengono scritti i Corpus Ayrvedici , ovvero i testi che pongono le basi della medicina terapeutica indiana, staccatasi dalla precedente basata sulle pratiche magiche del periodo vedico.
Ippocrate concepisce la teoria umorale, ovvero l'applicazione alla natura umana della teoria dei quattro elementi: water, air, earth and fire. Defines the existence of four humors: black bile, yellow bile, blood and phlegm.
water corresponds to the phlegm (or phlegm) located in the head, the earth is the black bile which is located in the spleen, the fire at the yellow bile (also known as anger) located in the liver, the air to the blood whose head is the heart.
The good functioning of the body depend on the balance of the elements while the prevalence of either would cause the disease.
The primary cause of illness or disease is closely related to diet applied by the patient.
feeding before and after digestion are the focus of the theory of humors.
The heat generated by digestion converts food through various stages: the first pound and then in blood and nutrients that are then distributed to all parts of the body.
The disease is seen as an imbalance among the humors of the body, which is to balance the need to use food (or remedies) of opposite qualities of heart. From this vision is attached a great importance for spices "hot" as opposed to disease "cold."
Much like the Indian medicine focuses on the digestive act: the balance of bile, phlegm and wind up with a good digestion sure do not catch diseases. The three elements mentioned symbolize universal forces that also act on man: fire and water first, and wind as an intermediary and balances between the two.
The Indians have as many as three humours, arranged in opposite pairs: hot-cold, wet-dry, light-heavy. Also for the Ayurvedic medicine, the disease represents a failure, especially in terms of digestion, and even in this case, like the Greeks, the imbalance must be corrected through medication or foods that are acting on the opposite effect (hot / cold).
Hippocrates prescribed, such as pepper as medicine "warm" in case the disease was due to the cold.
one hand we have India which produces and uses both internally and spices for export, the other the West, where over time growing more and more demand for oriental spices considered more "hot" local ones. Common purpose is to produce that amount, which are the Arabs and the Middle East very good brokers.
At the time of the collapse of the Persian Empire in 330 BC by Alexander the Great, the spice trade continues without interruption, in fact acquires a new dimension and greater. Under the Hellenistic kingdoms extends Greek civilization in the Mediterranean world, Eurasian and East, merging with local cultures.
The first major global market
successors of the Assyrians and the Medes, the Achaemenid gave birth in 550 BC and the largest empire in ancient history, initiated by Cyrus the Great.
was the largest and most powerful empire ever seen before, and was well governed and organized.
It reached its greatest extent under Darius I, east to the Indus Basin to the west and East Africa and Greece.
or Achaemenid Persian Empire - 550-486 BC
Darius divided his realm into twenty satrapies (province), each administered by a satrap (governor), many of whom had personal ties with the Shah. 
instituted a system of charges for each tax satrapy, adopted and improved the already advanced Assyrian postal system.
He built the famous Royal Road, linking the extremes of the empire. moved the central administration from Persepolis to Susa, Babylon and closer to the center of the kingdom. The Persians were tolerant of local cultures, following the precedent established by Cyrus the Great, an attitude that greatly reduced the revolts of subject peoples.
As for the kitchen and the spices were used mainly local ones, such as mustard, cumin, coriander, dill, black cumin and mint, in addition to the trio of allium garlic, onion and leek. Also worked as Persia catchment area and reservoir species grown in India, both for internal use, in part, for export to the western borders of the empire.
The peoples of Arabia, were free to take a huge and profitable commercial profit from this huge market that was developing in the Middle East and the ports and trade routes which were under the protection of the Persians.
While we were developing more and more different ways of silk from China through Central Asia, reached the Mediterranean, kept the business flourishing on the sea routes between southern India and the coasts of East Africa.
The definition and maintenance of these trade routes through empires pacified large parts of Eurasia, it reduced the risks associated with long-distance trade, actually increasing it significantly.
But with goods, products, people and spices, also passed through the cultures.
Water, air, earth, fire
In 500 BC on the western borders of the Achaemenid Empire, the Greek colonies erano in piena rivolta, ed iniziava la lunga guerra greco-persiana.
Sempre in quel periodo, però, prendeva forma il Corpus Hippocraticum , una raccolta di 72 libri che probabilmente furono scritti tra il V e il IV secolo a.C. non tutti attribuibili ad Ippocrate (considerato il padre della medicina).
Quasi contemporaneamente, in India, intorno al 300 a.C. vengono scritti i Corpus Ayrvedici , ovvero i testi che pongono le basi della medicina terapeutica indiana, staccatasi dalla precedente basata sulle pratiche magiche del periodo vedico.
Ippocrate concepisce la teoria umorale, ovvero l'applicazione alla natura umana della teoria dei quattro elementi: water, air, earth and fire. Defines the existence of four humors: black bile, yellow bile, blood and phlegm. water corresponds to the phlegm (or phlegm) located in the head, the earth is the black bile which is located in the spleen, the fire at the yellow bile (also known as anger) located in the liver, the air to the blood whose head is the heart.
The good functioning of the body depend on the balance of the elements while the prevalence of either would cause the disease.
The primary cause of illness or disease is closely related to diet applied by the patient.
feeding before and after digestion are the focus of the theory of humors.
The heat generated by digestion converts food through various stages: the first pound and then in blood and nutrients that are then distributed to all parts of the body.
The disease is seen as an imbalance among the humors of the body, which is to balance the need to use food (or remedies) of opposite qualities of heart. From this vision is attached a great importance for spices "hot" as opposed to disease "cold."
Much like the Indian medicine focuses on the digestive act: the balance of bile, phlegm and wind up with a good digestion sure do not catch diseases. The three elements mentioned symbolize universal forces that also act on man: fire and water first, and wind as an intermediary and balances between the two. The Indians have as many as three humours, arranged in opposite pairs: hot-cold, wet-dry, light-heavy. Also for the Ayurvedic medicine, the disease represents a failure, especially in terms of digestion, and even in this case, like the Greeks, the imbalance must be corrected through medication or foods that are acting on the opposite effect (hot / cold).
Hippocrates prescribed, such as pepper as medicine "warm" in case the disease was due to the cold.
one hand we have India which produces and uses both internally and spices for export, the other the West, where over time growing more and more demand for oriental spices considered more "hot" local ones. Common purpose is to produce that amount, which are the Arabs and the Middle East very good brokers.
At the time of the collapse of the Persian Empire in 330 BC by Alexander the Great, the spice trade continues without interruption, in fact acquires a new dimension and greater. Under the Hellenistic kingdoms extends Greek civilization in the Mediterranean world, Eurasian and East, merging with local cultures.
The Hellenistic kingdoms - 240 BC.
The Hellenic civilization spread from the Atlantic to India, involving the cultures of Asia Minor, Eurasia, Central Asia, Syria, Phoenicia, North Africa, Mesopotamia, 'Iran, India. 
At the time of Hippocrates, the first two centuries, oriental spices were still used especially as medical remedies, or in religious rituals or propitiatory. From the fusion of Eastern and Greek civilizations, some of these spices in food preparation also entered the West.
With the replacement of the greek and Roman control of the Mediterranean Sea, is the "Middle East problem" of control of the spice trade, which had been strictly in the hands of the Arabs and the kingdoms Tolomio in Egypt and the Seleucid Empire in Asia Minor. When Rome
subdue Egypt in 31 BC, will open at last, the doors of the Red Sea and the spice route.
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With the replacement of the greek and Roman control of the Mediterranean Sea, is the "Middle East problem" of control of the spice trade, which had been strictly in the hands of the Arabs and the kingdoms Tolomio in Egypt and the Seleucid Empire in Asia Minor. When Rome
subdue Egypt in 31 BC, will open at last, the doors of the Red Sea and the spice route.
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