Plz help! Why settlements may develop near sugar cane plantations?
Sugar cane is a popular crop. Sugar cane plantations and settlements may develop close to each other because the plantations usually take care of the crops and the plantations sell the sugar cane to merchant buyers in the settlements. After that, some merchants sell the sugar cane to other merchants further away, maybe even across seas. It has a lot to do with trade and subsistence. Some plantations may develop where they are because families need the crops to live on.