isted if weren't for the products themselves. The main one ultimately being sucrose or sugar. Sugar was the single most important agricultural product of its time, and it is still plausible today. It is impossible to even begin to imagine what the world would be like today without the commodity of sugar.
             The use of sugar didn't actually come into play until the mid 17th century. "In 1000 A.D., few Europeans knew of the existence of sucrose, or cane sugar. But soon afterward they learned about it; by 1650, in England the nobility and the wealthy had become inveterate sugar eaters, and sugar figured in their medicine, literary imagery, and displays of rank" (Mintz, 5,6). Unfortunately, sugar was used only by the wealthy few in the seemingly primitive days of the 17th century. This lasted for approximately 150 years, and inevitably the need and want for sugar rose. "By no later than 1800, sugar had become a necessity–albeit a costly and rare one–in the diet of every English person; by 1900, it was supplying nearly one-fifth of the calories in the English diet" (Mintz, 6). The main reason for sugar becoming so popular at this time was due to the fact that sugar is sweet, and humans in general love sweetness.
             Sugar had many different uses in those days, some relevant, and some far-fetched. It had decorative uses; s
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