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  • LUIS ALEMANY

    Madrid

Updated on Monday, 29March2021-00: 19

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If the history of Spain were a film script, the spices would be the apparent

mcguffin

of the story: the distant reference that makes the characters advance in the plot, but that, in reality, has no real meaning.

That seems the conclusion when it is discovered that Spanish historiography lacked until now any study on the contact of the Empire with the Moluccas Islands, the Indonesian archipelago that produced

cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg

and that made Columbus travel to America.

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