Anybody know how tariff/toll rates fluctuated on the spice trade between 1200 and 1600?

raharris1973

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Were tariffs under the various Islamic regimes that lay astride the spice trade routes always high?
 

raharris1973

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Or did they fluctuate, spiking shortly before the big Iberian investments in exploration?

There is a very facile shorthand, that I am not sure is credible, that says, "Well Ottomans (or some other Muslims) controlled the routes so that blocked trade or made prices so astronomical the Europeans needed to find a way around them."
 
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