Key Concept 2.3

Emergence of Transregional networks of communication and exchange In what country it grows is quite unknown The Arabians say that the dry sticks which we call kinamomon are brought to Arabia by large birds which carry them to their nests made of mud on mountain precipices which no man can climb The method invented to get the cinnamon sticks is this People cut up the bodies of dead oxen into very large joints and leave them on the ground near the nests They then scatter and the birds fly down and carry off the meat to their nests which are too weak to bear the weight and fall to the ground The men come and pick up the cinnamon Acquired in this way it is exported to other countries Herodotus

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