Changes to seafaring technology contribute to global connections between continents. In the ideas of mercantilism, countries wanted a fair balance of raw material imported to manufactured exported. The discovery of sugar began an exchange of goods, service, ideas, and diseases which had economic,social, and cultural consequences. Particularly the growth of empires that stretch around the globe. From 1500’s through 1900’s, many colonies began to find the value of sugar. The location of sugar, the demand of sugar, and the profit from the slave trade, allowed the sugar trade to flourish. Ads adsfa asdfa adsfa asdfa asdf dsaf kdf fkn f dfdf