Sugarcane

The tropical island of Puerto Rico is located in the Caribbean Sea. The island is apart what is known as the Greater Antilles Islands, because of its location in the Caribbean Sea as well as the islands located in the same area. Other islands located near Puerto Rico are Cuba, the island of Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and Jamaica (Geography of Puerto Rico). The island is known for it’s vast beauty, exports such as sugar, coffee and rum and plush history. Before Christopher…

Delectable scent, vivid color, and splendid decorations is what allures people to visit the country. Indeed, Colombia offers a diversity of food that makes the country of Colombia unique by itself. Perhaps, Colombia is not as “economically developed as Chile, or it doesn't have a world wonder like Peru”, yet there are many scrumptious delicacies in their cuisines. In general, the breakfast is extremely crucial in Colombia, which is comprised of fruit juice, coffee, hot-chocolate, similar to…

(who was a student of Marggra) was the first to set an industrial process for its extraction.1 Sucrose is a disaccharide which is made up of glucose and fructose (they are linked due to their anomeric carbons).8 It’s extracted through crushing the sugarcane with…

There are two other important religious holidays that take place in Ecuador called, Carnival and All Saints’ Day and All Soul’s Day. Carnival is a celebration in Ecuador where you indulge in both drinks and foods to stay satisfied and filled throughout the fasting period of Lent. This holiday takes place on the weekend closest to the New Moon. One interesting fact about the holiday is that is it common to throw water balloons at individuals, including strangers. All Saints’ Day and All Soul’s…

similar to cocaine, and is the culprit behind over 38 million deaths linked to sugar related disorders and diseases. So, what is sugar? It's the highly refined, isolated, concentrated, chemically manipulated version of something, in this case, the sugarcane crop, found and grown in nature. It's a drug that has no nutritional value, is an addictive chemical, and is the number one calorie source in America. Cocaine is very similar to sugar in the fact that it is a whitened, extracted, highly…

Life in the South was very different then to lives up in the North. The transportation for the North was a bit different than the transportation in the South. For the North and South the society was very different. In the South the geography was different than the geography in the North. Ultimately the transportation difference played a role in the development in the North and South. Section 6 describes how most of the north was covered by railroad tracks. It also tells us that congress funded…

scientists of university of Puerto Rico categorise the island soil into one more classification as lowlands, alluvium, coastal plains, alluvium in terraces, upland dark, and upland reddish-purple. Tropical countries produce High biomass products like sugarcane, bananas, tobacco and coffee, in spite of tropical soils being considered as not fit for agriculture with soil having less fertility, and…

European exploration and settlement caused many problems the Native Americans in ways they could never have fathomed. The Europeans brought with them diseases such as small pox, measles and the flu that the Native Americans had no immunity too. Wiping out an estimated 90% of Native Americans. The Europeans saw the them as naive as the Natives had no concept of land ownership as they felt that land is no ones to claim as it just allows us to live on it. The Europeans exploited them by claiming…

rising. Hawaii itself did not have enough workers so they improvised by importing workers from other countries like asia, china, and even Japan. The need for the workers was because of the boom in sugar cane. Hawaii had almost perfect weather for sugarcane. Sugar cane prefer a warm climate in a hilly place. Life in Hawaii in the 1800’s in plantation life was not easy. Living conditions were harsh, working conditions were strict and racial differences were unnecessary. First of all, the…

What Drove the Sugar Trade? In 1492 Christopher Columbus introduced Sugarcane to the Caribbean. But the first recording of sugar shipment wasn’t until 1317 being shipped to England. Even the Greeks and the Romans knew about what sugar was. By the 1500's a global sugar market was a fairly new thing at the time. In 1655 the British captured Jamaica from the Spanish and eventually became the biggest sugar trader. But with all that has happened what really drove the trade? Sugar was used as a…