Sugar Trade Research Paper

What started the sugar trade the sugar trade started because of the New Guinea traders. In the introduction of the sugar trade it says that New Guinea traders were the ones that helped expand the sugar trade due to them caring the sugar cane all the way to India to trade then from India it slowly diffused to the Mediterranean. In the fifteenth century the Portuguese became the new sugar cane producers that had the largest plantations in (Brazil no wonder Brazil is the only Latin American country that does not speak spanish.)Then in the sixteenth century it expanded to the West indies. This is what shows the expansion of sugar further away from the hearth.

The sugar trade started out expanding outwards from New Guinea due to the locals that were looking to trade it for other merchandise. Sugarcane started to become a more desired product due to its plantations that were in Spain and in Portugal from Portugal then it spread to the atlantic island of Madeira in the fourteenth century. Then in 1493 Christopher columbus introduced the caribbean islands with this new

product called sugar, of course were ever sugar went people fell in love with the flavor. Then in 1655 Britain took over jamaica that was being ruled by Spain shortly after Britain took over Jamaica they became the number one sugar trader in the world during that time. In 1740 france named Britain as the number one trader in the caribbean so this meant that there was someone else that was also a major sugar trader. In Britain sugar became so popular that in less than a century it became the primary food source for every one who lived in great Britain during that time. Christopher Columbus introduced sugar to the West Indies if it was not for him sugar would have probably not of been known to the West Indies at that time.

After it expanded ever were there was a big impact that sugar played in everyone's daily Life. Sugar was such a big hit that it quickly became popular among the locals. The locals loved sugar so much that it made up for at least ten percent of their daily intake of food. Sugar was used to bring out the best flavors out of every recipe. Sugar was so good that in document three it says that once you tasted it , it was like an addictive substance that you basically could not live without. In document four it says that sugar was used to improve the way tea,coffee,and chocolate taste like. In the article it stayed that when sugar was first introduced its annual consumption rate was about four pounds of sugar a year per person but by 1770 it went up to sixteen pounds of sugar a year per person. Sugar became so famous it was the number one import than all the other products put together.

The countries and the people that helped the sugar trade expand were New Guinea due to its locals that traded with Indian traders.

From India then it expanded to the mediterranean which the more powerful countries to revive the product were Spain and Portugal.In the fourtteenth century the Portuguese led the biggest sugar cane plantations in the world.Another oh try that helped the sugar trade expand a France due to its plantations in the caribbean.Then in 1493 Christopher Columbus took it across the atlantic. Slaves played a very big role in sugarcane production because when sugar cane was cut it had to be harvested and processed in less than a day or the crop will spoil slaves had to work in hot and humid conditions with little or no breaks in the article it said that there was a machete near mills so if the slave's hand will get caught he will cut it off so the entire arm would not go into the

mills.

So the original hearth was New Guinea due to traders and sailors sugar was able to expand all around the world. Some major citrus that helped the sugar trade start was Britain and india Britain for making large plantations and india for helping it get known and contributing to its expansion to the mediterranean. The most important people that contributed to the expansion of sugar was Christopher Columbus who introduced sugar to the caribbean and the slaves that worked hard to make up the demand that the people of the country posed. This is what I belive drive the sugar trade and the major contributors to making it known world wide