Where was the Spice Road during the Medieval/Renaissance time period?
There was no spice road land route and it is often confused with the Silk Road. This is probably why you’re having trouble finding a land route. Even before the Christian era, the spice trade was conducted by sea routes. “The economically important Silk Road and Spice (Eastern) trade routes, became blocked by the Ottoman Empire ca. 1453” See wikipedia article, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spice_Route View the accompanying map at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Silk_R… The blue line is the spice route, the red line is the Silk Road. More particularly, you can see the Cinnamon Route contrasted with the Clove Route at http://asiapacificuniverse.com/pkm/mapSp… If what you’re looking for is actually the Silk Road, there are plenty of google images maps. C
