ANTB64H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sust, Unst, System On A Chip
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So many choices now but no time to prepare food w/o sugar; sugar is available in easy food. Sugar provided calories but not nutrition; but men got full range of protein. *extensification: sugar orig. luxury seen in special occasions (wedding cake) that has trickled through classes; intens. : new uses for sugar, sugar in everything. Thought poor people would neither want nor need sugar b/c upper-class were born that way and sugar was assoc. w/ them. Importation of slaves after indian death by disease and guns (sugar cane brought back from. Columbus) prod. profit (started w/ spanish and portugeuse and then brit. Fort cent"s fixed tech. f/ a lot of centures - req. lots of labours thus slaves in places conduc. to growth of sugar. 17th cent. w/ charles ii found east india company (tea from india and china); each power had it"s resources going ther and consuming resources w/i its" borders.
