Editing Cinnamon (section)

===Early modern period===
During the 1500s, [[Ferdinand Magellan]] was searching for spices on behalf of Spain; in the [[Philippines]], he found {{lang|la|Cinnamomum mindanaense}}, which was closely related to ''C. zeylanicum'', the cinnamon found in Sri Lanka. This cinnamon eventually competed with Sri Lankan cinnamon, which was controlled by the Portuguese.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Mallari|first=Francisco|date=December 1974|title=The Mindanao Cinnamon|journal=[[Philippine Quarterly of Culture & Society]]|volume=2|pages=190–194|jstor=29791158|number=4}}</ref>

In 1638, Dutch traders established a trading post in Sri Lanka, took control of the [[manufactories]] by 1640, and expelled the remaining Portuguese by 1658. "The shores of the island are full of it," a Dutch captain reported, "and it is the best in all the Orient. When one is downwind of the island, one can still smell cinnamon eight [[league (unit)|leagues]] out to sea."<ref>{{cite book|last1=Braudel|first1=Fernand|author-link=Fernand Braudel|title=The Perspective of the World: Civilization and Capitalism, 15th–18th Century|volume=3|publisher=[[University of California Press]]|year=1984|pages=15|isbn=978-0-520-08116-1}}</ref> The [[Dutch East India Company]] continued to overhaul the methods of harvesting in the wild and eventually began to cultivate its own trees.<ref>{{cite web|last=Overmeer|first=Marjolein|title=The Dutch East India Company in Ceylon|publisher=Schaakstukkenmuseum|url=https://www.schaakstukkenmuseum.nl/?p=1859&lang=en|access-date=9 January 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Klein|first=Wouter|date=17 February 2021|title=Plant of the Month: Cinnamon|url=https://daily.jstor.org/plant-of-the-month-cinnamon|publisher=[[JSTOR Daily]]|access-date=9 January 2025}}</ref>

In 1767, Lord Brown of the British [[East India Company]] established the Anjarakkandy Cinnamon Estate near [[Anjarakkandy]] in the [[Kannur]] district of [[Kerala]], India.<ref>{{cite web|title=Cinnamon Valley|publisher=Kerala Tourism|url=https://www.keralatourism.org/destination/cinnamon-valley-anjarakandy/501|access-date=9 January 2025}}</ref> It later became Asia's largest cinnamon estate. The British [[Invasion of Ceylon|took control of Ceylon]] from the Dutch in 1796.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.library.mq.edu.au/digital/under/research/background.html|title=Under a Tropical Sun|publisher=[[Macquarie University]]|date=2011|access-date=9 January 2025|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150401230335/http://www.library.mq.edu.au/digital/under/research/background.html|archive-date=1 April 2015|df=dmy-all}}</ref>