[Sca-cooks] spice trade transit time

[LrdRas at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/15/01 11:03:58 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
TerryD at Health.State.OK.US writes:

<< BTW, double that 800 years.  The Arabs were in the spice trade almost that
 long before Muhammad brought them to Islam.  The Romans cut out the Arab
 middlemen from the 1st to 4th Centuries, but with Rome's decline, the Arabs
 took back the trade. >>

True. I was trying to include the 600 CE-1600 CE period which is usually
covered by the SCA in general. Also I had thought I read mention of Toledo as
a distribution point through the Moors. Have you read anything about that
possibility?

Ras