Spices are generally used in warmer countries. Before refrigeration, spices were needed to disguise the taste of food that might be going off. In colder areas like Europe, food didn't go bad so quickly, so spices weren't added to food.
Now of course that's all changed - white people have discovered spice, and aren't going back to the bland food they ate before!
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