Blog Two 01/21

In chapter 13, the section that caught my attention the most was the one on colonies of sugar. This caught my attention because from what I can recall (at the moment) this is the earliest thing I've really learned about that had something to do with the people of spanish descent, since this is going back to the 1600's I found it interesting how something so simple now, was so useful in many ways back then. To me, sugar is something really common that is used in the kitchen when making things, or to make something you have sweeter, whereas for the Europeans, it was used for that as as well as medicine and they would use it to sculpt that. Another thing that made this a bit more interesting thing to me was overall how it involved a lot of different people that were from different places. How a few simple things (now) where everything back then that ended up having people form different places in the world come together to sell or trade or whatever. Also, how by creating the production ways, it ended up turning into a slave labor thing.

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