AGRO 1001 : Agronomy 1001 Exam 2 Review
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Trianguar trade: from the west indies the main export cargoes were sugar, rum, and molasses; from. North america tobacco, cotton, hemp, indigo, and rice. The profits made from the global trade of sugar, tea, and coffee were the major driving force behind the triangular trade. Bananas: musa acuminata colla x m. paradisiaca l. Wheat: triticum aestivum: einkorn (t. monococcum), emmer (t. dicoccum), and, spelt (t. spelta). American consumes 1. 6 ounces of sugar per day or less than 40 lbs. annually: approx. For use to make cigars: fire-cured: akin to dark, natural dying completed by a wood-fired fumigation, sun-cured: all of oriental tobaccos cured by this method. Each year, smoking kills more people than aids, alcohol, drug abuse, car crashes, murders, suicides: and fires combined. Bananas: bananas are native to southeastern asia; wild forms of the banana plant came originally from the indo-
