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Date Posted:12:35:44 06/02/03 Mon Author: IDAHO Subject: It's not that it "worked for me" In reply to:
Crysknife
's message, "Well...." on 21:37:04 06/01/03 Sun
it's more that I just sort of accepted it. I didn't scrutinize it like you have obviously done. There wasn't anything in there that I thought didn't make sense to me.
The trader wasn't the only one to see the inherent value in the Spice. He was the only one who thought of the possibilities of exploiting it economically on a grand scale.
As said before, I isort of think of it as like the coffee bean or vanilla bean. Sure the natvies know about the properties, but maybe the first explorers to the New World didn't automatically think..."HEy, I can create a very lucrative industry off of this stuff." It took a little while because the explorers at first were more interested in gold.
After like 150 years though, plantations for tabacco, sugar, and coffee started coming about.
But it took a while. Presumably, the explorers and traders first contact with such plants were probably not unlike the trader in BJ.
Also, the scale on which Spice would become popular throughout known sapce would probably be even longer because the area is so much bigger.
Anyway, you've clearly thought a lot about this so whateves.
-IDAHO-
