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Spicy fever
Spice trading has long been considered a very profitable business. This is back in the Middle Ages, the Spaniards and the Portuguese realized when import ginger, cloves, nutmeg and peppers from India to Europe and China. The following spicy fever, the world owes Christopher Columbus: then Europeans tried chili peppers and vanilla.
Rubber fever
The “champions” for this type of fever are the Brazilians, whom “fever” twice. The first time this happened at the end of XIX – the beginning of the XX century, when the “epidemic” spread throughout the basin Amazons. It was there that hevea grew in multitude, from whose juice rubber is obtained. Another Brazilian fever of this kind accounted for the second world war.
Golden fever
The United States survived three gold rushes, the strongest of which took place in california. In 1848, a simple worker found on the river American River Gold. This find caused a real boom: hundreds Thousands of people rushed to California in search of their happiness. Thanks to the prospectors, almost a deserted area has become densely populated state. Currently the gold rush “Raging” in Peru.
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Oil fever
The first oil well was drilled in the USA in the middle of the 19th century. However, the real fever began later – in Texas, despite the fact that here, oil was initially used only as a lubricant. Tipping year became 1901, and the scene is Spindleton: then local investors who drilled the land virtually at random stumbled upon a large oilfield.
Diamond rush
In the second half of the XIX century, diamond deposits were found in South Africa Place of Birth. Prospectors rushed here in thousands from different countries with dream of getting rich. The most popular quarry was the name “Big Hole”. For half a century of work, it was extracted from it about three tons of diamonds, after which the mine was closed, and he the quarry is flooded.
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