This assignment is a short take-home essay in the form of a critical response to two given sources on the topic of sugar. You are expected to listen/read the material and write a reading response (between 800 and 1,000 words in length).  You must show some engagement with course content in your responses, but no additional research is required at this stage. 
For your convenience, the two sources are also included below:
The Secret Ingredient. (2015, Sep 11). Sugar: Sidney Mintz (Episode 1) (available on all major podcast platforms)
Moore, J. W. (2000). Sugar and the Expansion of the Early Modern World-Economy: Commodity Frontiers, Ecological Transformation, and Industrialization 23(3), 409–433. 
Please read the document “Assignment requirement” carefully, the given weekly readings are only the subject that needs to be mentioned in the article (Since you need to combine the
course
themes, you can also check the weekly PPT), but not to be responded to.