HIST 015 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Sugarcane
23 Oct 2016
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Make sure you"re taking notes during lecture and notes on the reading. You don"t got no chance, you have to study foolz. Rice, spices, silks > silver, fish, fur. Sugar cultivation happened in very few parts of the world, (doesn"t grow in many places) Pepper and spices required labor processing, but sugar required more. The combination of these 2 things makes it revolutionary, the amount of sugar that becomes available in the 17/18th century, particularly in europe. From people eating less than a lb of sugar a year to 150 - 170 lb a year. They weren"t finding mountains of silver in brazil, so they needed a staple. Looked at sugar as the suitable staple created sugar estates. They (english) cultivated sugar in madeira before brazil so they knew what they were doing. Sugar production between 1560 - 1620 went up. 5,000 tons of sugar to 20,000 tons of sugar.
