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The Sugar cane plant was the main crop produced on the numerous plantations throughout the Caribbean through the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, as almost every island was covered with sugar plantations for refining the cane for its sweet properties. The main source of labor was African slaves. These plantations produced 80-90 percent of the sugar consumed in Western Europe.
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Europeans set out to establish sugar plantations in the Caribbean in an attempt to?
meet their needs and eliminate an expensive import
Why did European countries colonize parts of the pacific northwest?
Europeans came to explore, trade, spread Christianity, claim territory, hunt whales, set up plantations, and set up military bases.
Aborigines were farmers who set up their own plantations?
what?
How did settle from the English colony of Barbados develop the Carolina colony?
They set up large plantations with many slaves.
What type of plantation did the loyalist set up in the Bahamas?
the loyalist set up cotton plantations in the bahamas:)
What set of Europeans came after the Spaniards?
France
What were the conditions like on the plantations?
Conditions on slave plantations were bad, You would work from sun rise to sun set and would be beat if you didn't do enough work-
Which Spanish explorer set up the first cacao plantations?
plant columbus
What country set up trading posts?
europeans
Which europeans set up trading post?
Europians-
What did Europeans set up on the coast of Africa?
They set up a first free African city
What pattern did Columbus's later voyages set for europeans in the Americas?
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