Sweet Nexus: Sugar and the Origins of the Modern World

While Empires expanded and took over lands all around them, they were also discovering different products and substances. With the exchange of goods and resources betweeen countries there was one specific that stood out the most to Europeans, Sugar.

Sugar was highly invigerating to many europeans back in the 1600's. Some believed it to be a drug because of it's addicting attributes and complete want for the substance. The fact that it was being regulated between societies shows how important they saw this resource as. While finding it in the Meditteranean islands, sugar was first only common anog the rich but later spread to the lower classes.
As this led to the rival of the British and French, trade became a game between them.

It's funny to think that something so common and used so much today was hassled and fought over back then, really makes you think of the value of what things use to be. It's sad to think that Europeans had to expose something so precious to Caribbeans for their own benefit and gains. ($$$)