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Sugar. It’s been a vital part of our diet for thousands of years. However, its history is also intertwined with the history of slavery in the Americas. How did this happen?

We think about climate change as a modern problem, but people living in the early modern centuries had to deal with it too. The Little Ice Age caused famine, floods, drought, and disease that destabilized major empires. In this episode, we’ll talk about the Little Ice Age, its impacts on empires and their governments, and how it kicked off a period of massive global migration.

What happens when a 15th-century empire wants to grow, but are running out of resources? You start exploring, of course! In this episode, we’ll talk about the beginning of the Age of Exploration, including how empires like China, Portugal, and Spain used exploring the world as a way to find new resources and spread ideas.