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Rome Was Going Bankrupt. The Reason Was A Tiny Berry From India

Before refrigerators existed meat rotted in three days. Disease spread through bad food. Winter meant eating rotten food or starving. Then someone discovered a tiny dried berry that could preserve meat for months. Kill bacteria. And make food taste so extraordinary that people wept eating it for the first time. That berry was black pepper. And it grew only in one place on earth. The Malabar Coast of India. Black pepper was so valuable in ancient Rome that when the Visigoths sacked Rome in 410 AD they demanded 3000 pounds of pepper as ransom. Not gold. Not silver. Pepper. So much Roman gold was flowing to India to pay for pepper that the Roman Senate passed a law trying to stop it. The Roman writer Pliny complained that India was draining Rome of 50 million sesterces every single year. The most powerful empire on earth. Was being bankrupted. By a tiny berry. From the forests of Kerala. Follow for the most fascinating untold stories about India every single day. #Shorts #YouTubeShorts #India