YR 8 - History of Sugar [Part 1] Flashcards
To help you understand the History of Sugar.
Lesson A:
What plant does sugar come from?
Sugar cane
Where did people discover that sugar can could be made into sugar crystals?
India
Which religion helped sugar to spread west?
Islamic
What had people used to sweeten their foods before sugar?
Honey
What new methods did farmers introduce to produce sugar?
Irrigation and water mills
Lesson B:
Name two places where Europeans started to grow sugar at the end of the fifteenth century.
Madeira, the Canary Islands, Cape Verde or/and São Tomé
Who originally worked to produce the sugar in the Caribbean?
European Settlers’
Where did the use of slave labour first take place?
São Tomé
Who discovered the Caribbean?
Christopher Columbus
Where did the Portuguese take sugar in the sixteenth century?
Brazil
Lesson C:
Which country first introduced slavery to sugar plantations?
The Portuguese
How did some Caribbean islands come under British control?
The British seized them from the Spanish,
In the triangular trade, what was the
journey from Africa to the Caribbean and
America known as?
The Middle Passage
Which group of people in Britain started to
buy sugar because of the triangular trade?
The middle classes
How many tons of sugar did Britain import
in 1800?
150,000 tons.
