What drove the sugar trade? In the late 1600s and 1700s sugar growing took firm hold in the Caribbean. During that time sugar cane spread even further West. Anthropologists tell us that sugar was first grown in New Guienea some 9000 years ago. Sugar cane grows for 15 months then gets cuts down and gets crushed down. First‚ Jamaica and Barbados is a good place to make sugar cane. The reason is because they both get a lot of rain. Another reason why I say it is good place is because they have good
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What Drove the Sugar Trade? In the late 1600s and 1700s sugar growing took firm hold in the Caribbean. France and Britain competed for domination of the Sugar Trade. By 1655‚ Britain was the biggest sugar trader. France passed Britain as the biggest Caribbean sugar trader in 1740 (oi). The Sugar Trade was driven by many factors. Some of which are capital‚ slavery and complementing industries. Money was‚ and still is‚ very important. Sugar was even called white gold by British colonists during
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The Sugar trade. Oh the wonderful sweetness of money and sugar. What drove this so called sugar trade‚ you ask? Consumer demand‚ return on investment‚ and slavery were all very important aspects to the making of the historic events in which were the sugar trade. Consumer demand is the product of the addicting compounds which make up sugar‚ adding it to about everything sugar gradually became a very important aspect in the 1500’s normal lifestyle. Return on investment is when you put money into
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10/4/13 What Drove The Sugar Trade? Sugar is a very tempting and delightful sweetener to foods used every day‚ all over the world to satisfy our appetites. One year after Christopher Columbus’s first voyage in 1493‚ Columbus introduced cane sugar to the islands of the Caribbean. During this time sugar was not known to most people in Europe. That changed soon enough and caused the production of sugar to become a large industry. The sugar trade was driven by land and climate‚ consumer demand‚ and
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You might ask‚ “What drove the sugar trade?”. Let me tell you by starting off saying; consumers demanded sugar. Consumers demanded sugar because the producers became wealthy off of sugar‚ sugar was sweet so people wanted it and was very efficient due to the labor of slaves. To start off‚ sugar was an easy way to become wealthy for producers. As said in Document 7A and 7B‚ after the first production of sugar from the West Indies‚ sugar easily grabbed the attention of many Englishmen. The Englishmen
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Who dove the sugar Trade? I ask myself that question because I think I know the answer. I think the British drove the Sugar Trade. Everything during the Sugar Trade‚ the British almost had something involved with it. The reasons why the British drove the Sugar Trade was because of the demanding‚ the capital‚ and all of the trading. In Doc.3‚ it shows a drawing of a hogshead of sugar. A hogshead was a large barrel weighing between 700 and 1200 pounds. The picture was located in London. In document
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Diana Molinari G-3 12/17/14 What Drove the Sugar Trade? It is no exaggeration to say that the foundations of the modern globalized world were made of sugar. In the 15th century Europeans first encountered its sweet delights and by the late 1600s sugar growing had taken firm hold in the Caribbean. There are a few factors behind how this product became so popular. These factors are consumer demand‚ labor‚ and land. After the discovery of sugar‚ the demand for it was dramatically high. Consumer demand
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P. 2 What drove the sugar trade? “Give me some sugar!” When most people hear that phrase‚ it usually means someone wants a kiss. But in the late 1600s and early 1700s‚ people want to plant sugar. True‚ it started some 9000 years ago in New Guinea‚ but it took a while before the rest of the world caught on. During this time‚ there was a movement called the sugar trade. Although there were many forces driving the sugar trade‚ what mainly drove it were the ideal land masses for sugar production
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What drove the sugar trade? Theodore Roosevelt once said‚ “Do what you can with what you have‚ where you are.” For the British this meant using islands such as Jamaica and Barbados to produce‚ process‚ and sell sugar. Sugar cane thrives in hot humid‚ tropical climates. The British used sugar for things such as rum‚ molasses‚ and other auxiliaries. The sugar trade grew and thrived for three specific reasons: the perfect climate was available; sugar was new to Britain so people
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Many things helped drive the sugar trade. Demand‚ slavery‚ and climate played a major role in the driving of the sugar trade. Demand was greatly increasing throughout the years. The climate of the caribbean islands where cane sugar was grown. Slavery provided “free” work to produce sugar which in turn increased profits for the farmers. In England‚ sugar was not shipped there until the year 1317. But once the sugar was becoming a popular import‚ it boomed. Sugar consumption and import grew tremendously
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