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⏲ Duration: 29 min 66 sec ✓ Published: 10-Jul-2014
Description: Sugarcane was a luxury cash-crop native to Polynesia. Introduced into the Mediterranean in the Islamic era (Episode 1), it was diffused by Portuguese explorers to the Atlantic Islands and Brazil between 1440 and 1540 (Episode 3). During a brief occupation of Brazil, the Dutch (Episode 4) introduced wind-power to sugar processing. Expelled from Brazil by the returning Portuguese, they took their expertise to Dutch and English holdings in the Caribbean, where they touched off a “sugar revolution
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