How does the timeline support the text?
-It suggests that sugar's influence was limited, not
widespread -It documents key events in the sugar and
sweetener industries.
-It identifies the events that led to the collapse of
the sugar trade.
-It provides explanatory details regarding the lives
and work of sugar farmers.
Age of Science
1747- Andraeas Marggraf discovers that beet sugar is identical to cane sugar
1840s- Beets become a major crop in Ukraine
1852-Indians begin to arrive in Natal to work in sugar
1861-Czar Alexander II frees Russia's serfs
1879-Saccharine, a chemical sweetener, invented
1906- Gandhi leads Indians, many of them sugar workers, in Johannesburg in an oath to resist discriminatory laws by peaceful means
1965- Aspartame, an artificial sweetener, invented
1967- High-fructose corn syrup invented
1976- Sucralose (Splenda) invented 21st century Brazil using much of its sugar-cane crop to produce ethanol
-Sugar Changed The World
