SUGAR AND COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE Flashcards
DESIRE FOR SUGAR
not universal
some love it some don’t
UK, US AND INDIA YES
FRANCE AND CHINA NO
- century
sugar became everyday commmodity
everyone could afford it
Sugarcane
plant that needs warm and wet conditions to grow
new guinea
EUROPE Is not ideal
MIDDLE AGES
sugar was considered a spice - used as a flavor but not to dominate the meal
it was luxury
it was expensive
Sugar sculptures
they were served in banquets
indication of wealth
sugar paste used for more detailed sculpture
usually in the middle of the bequest
destroyed on the ned
Africa and slave trade
when portuguese colonized Africa they made new sugarcane plaintanes
slave trades - slaves would work on those plaintains
really hard work
British
took one Barbados and made sugar there
they didn’t participate din sugar trade they only made sugar for themselves
Women
feminization of sugar
women- tea drinking
men are associated with coffee
THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE
global trace of animals, culture, people and diseases
DISEASES THAT WERE SPREAD
BLACK DEATH
MALARIA
SYPHILIS
CHICKEN POX
SMALLPOX
FROM AMERICA TO OLD WORLD
POTATOES
TOMATOES
PEPPERS
COCOA
AVOCADO
PINEAPPLE
OW TO AMERICA
CASSAVA
RICE
WHEAT
CHICKEN
SHEEP
HORSES
SUGARCANE
COFFEE
tea coffee and cacao
first drank without sugar
coffee- africa
cocoa- New Mexico
