Due 03.09 - Overview of Sugar

What is slavery?

• When someone is forced to work by someone who owns them.

• When someone is kidnapped from their home.

• Someone who is married to the leader of the country.

• Someone who has no home.

Where does sugar come from? Choose all the correct answers.

• Sugar Cane

• Sugar Cubes

• Sugar Beets

• Sugar Bread

How long ago was 8,000 BCE?

• About 10,000 Years Ago

• About 8,000 Years Ago

• About 5,000 Years Ago

• About 11,000 Years Ago

Where and when was sugar first recorded to be used?

• Europe

  3,000 yrs ago

• West Africa

  8,000 yrs ago

• Papua New Guinea

  8,000 yrs ago

• Caribbean

  10,000 yrs ago

Where and when was the process of crystalising sugar started?

• India in 350 B.C.E.

• Persia in 500 C.E.

• India in 350 C.E.

• Persia in 840 C.E.

Where were plantations first set up by the Europeans?

• Caribbean

• Europe

• South America

• West Africa

What are three dangerous aspects of harvesting sugarcane?

• The grinding mills could crush you

• The sugar cane was heavy and sharp to cut when harvested

• The boiling kettles for the sugar cane liquid could fall

• The sugar crystals were sharp and could cut skin

What are key events in the History of Sugar in chronological order?

• Sugar is used everyday by everyone because it's not rare

• Persians built plantations to farm sugar cane

• Europeans took sugar cane to S. America and the Caribbean

• Indians invented the process of crystalising sugar

• Sugar cane was chewed raw

Where is Papua New Guinea?

Where is the Caribbean?