1. What are the processing units setup near plantations
2. With which seeds chocolates are made
3. What are the benifits got to Europeans after they established plantations
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2. Cocoa seeds are used in manufacturing of chocolates...
3. These plantations developed from Mediterranean farming systems that focused on growing cash crops for trade rather than on subsistence crops for local use.
Europeans first encountered many of their major cash crops, such as sugar, through exposure to Muslim agriculture during the Crusades (from the eleventh to thirteenth centuries).
Sugarcane particularly appealed to Europeans because their only sweetener before that time had been honey. They could also use sugar to make alcoholic beverages, such as rum or Madeira.
But growing sugarcane required access to tropical lands not found in northern Europe, and processing and transporting sugar throughout Europe required significant labor and trading resources.
Sugar also did not have the nutritional value to be a staple crop for local consumers, like wheat or rice. Instead it was a supplemental, luxury good that had to be grown for a widespread consumer base to become a profitable cash crop.
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