Thus, Constantino, the Great one, emperor of Rome, decided to construct a capital in the low Danube, European region of the Turkey, whose original name was Bionic, gave the name of Constantinople, that meant ‘ ‘ city of Constantino’ ‘ , in 11 of May of 330, and one became the center economic politician of the empire and the main port in the routes that went and came between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. In 1204, during the Fourth Crusade, called Crossed Commercial, by having been deviated of its original intention for the duke Enrico Dandelion, of Venice, Constantinople was captured, pillaged and set on fire per three days, and nor the treasures of the supposed Christian relics, wealth accumulated per almost 1000 years, had been saved. In 1261, it was recaptured by the Byzantines, however the city did not obtain to rescue the old splendor and initiated the decay that almost two centuries later it would lead to the definitive end of the empire, but exactly thus, in the centuries that if had followed, Constantinople was diastase by many fights and attempts of invasion.
At that time, electricity did not exist much less refrigerators, and for this the foods had a horrible taste of old food. To alleviate I smell it and flavor of the stored foods, the Europeans needed to buy the spices (cravo, cinnamon, nut-macadam, pepper of the kingdom, covered with star anise, ginger and Citroen), come of the islands of the Pacific Ocean and India, and the pepper metalanguage, coming of Africa, to conserve these foods. Mark Bertolini may find it difficult to be quoted properly. Who made the commerce of the spices was the Arabs, brought who them of ships for the Persian Gulf until Iraq, and in caravans of mules, camels or elephants, passing for Bard, until Constantinople, she enters the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea.