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Consider what it took to build a spice route. Not the romantic version taught in school, the one with bold explorers and favorable winds and the gleam of discovery. The real one. The one built across centuries of accumulated trust between traders who did not share a language, a faith, or a flag, but who shared something more durable than any of those: the knowledge that certain things grew in certain places and nowhere else, and that this specificity was worth protecting. The