Scientists found in Africa ancient sugar plant

The international team of scientists investigated the largest sugar plant and the estate in the island state in Central Africa — São Tomé, constructed in the XVI century. It appeared that value of this archipelago in the history of the Atlantic world is greatest: exactly there was an economic model of plantations which later Europeans applied in North America and South America. Research is published in the Antiquity magazine. In the 1530th years the Portuguese colony São Tomé became the largest producer of sugar in the world. However this economic success was short. Competition to Brazil and frequent revolts...