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- The crop spread around the Eastern Pacific and Indian Oceans around 3,500 years ago, carried by Austronesian and Polynesian seafarers.
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Sugar first came to England in the 11th century, brought back by soldiers returning from the Crusades in what is now the Middle East. Over the next 500 years it remained a rarefied luxury, until Portuguese colonists began producing it at a more industrial level in Brazil during the 1500s.
The history of sugar has five main phases: The extraction of sugar cane juice from the sugarcane plant, and the subsequent domestication of the plant in tropical India and Southeast Asia sometime around 4,000 BC.
Jul 16, 2019 · Most wealthy people bought their sugar through London, but as sugar became more available, and cheaper, it was available even in the small provincial towns. By the mid 17th century, even the very smallest towns had shops that sold sugar, and it was beginning to lose its cache among the wealthy.
May 16, 2023 · Around 1600, the English demand for sugar was largely satisfied by the Brazilian engenhos [sugar-producing estates] controlled by Spanish and Portuguese landholders. Sugar was harvested in...
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By the end of the sixteenth century, English sugar consumption amongst royalty and the wealthy was so common that it was often remarked upon by foreign travellers in their description of English society. The German traveller Paul Hentzner describes the damage that sugar had done to Elizabeth’s I health and appearance by the time she was 65 years ol...
This lesson introduces students to the history of sugar in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and sugar’s journey from plantations in the Americas to European metropoles, where it was often further refined before being sold for consumption. The lesson aims to help students reflect on to the importance of overseas trade, the transatlantic slave ...
Teachers could use the illustration image as a starter activity for the lesson. Ask the students to take a look at this photograph. 1. What is this object made of? 2. Can they describe the design and shape? 3. What do they think it is used for? 4. When do they think it was made? 5. Does the photograph help us to date it? 6. Do we use similar object...
Illustration image: Sugar basin design 1852-1870, Catalogue ref: BT 43/61 (228782) Source 1: ‘Atlas maritimus or, the sea-atlas’, John Seller, 1675. Catalogue Ref: FO 925/4111 f.29. Source 2: ‘A recipe for marshmallow syrup’, Ship: Abraham of London(Master Andrew Hardie), 1633-1637. Catalogue Ref: HCA 30/636/7. Source 3: London and Middlesex. Civit...
Syrups and ships: Early sugar consumption in England A blog from The National Archives looking closer at the recipe in source 2. BBC Studio videoexplores the early history of sugar and the creation of sugar sculptures in the early modern period. BBC Bitesizeconsiders the early history of the transatlantic slave trade, and sugar’s role in establishi...
‘Pupils should continue to develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British, local and world history, establishing clear narratives within and across the periods they study. They should note connections, contrasts and trends over time and develop the appropriate use of historical terms. They should regularly address and somet...
Oct 31, 2023 · In late 19th-century Europe, farmers switched from wheat to beets to create beet sugar, resulting in beet sugar making up 50% of all internationally traded sugar by 1900. As the U.S. gained...
Oct 14, 2020 · How did the sugar get to the Harvard kitchens? We know at this point that sugar came to America from a variety of islands. The Navigation Act of 1651, which dictated that only British islands could provide North American colonies with sugar, was not strictly adhered to; sugar also came from Dutch and Portuguese plantations.
