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500
Refining, and Healing
College at Jundi Shapur brings together scholars and doctors from many lands, knowledge of how to grow, refine, and use sugar as a medicine -
Jan 1, 1200
White Sugar
1200s Egyptains bacame masters of refining the whitest sugar -
Jan 1, 1226
The Price of a Pound
King Henry the third of England pays equivalent of $450 for thrre pounds of sugar -
Jan 1, 1493
Across Seas
Columbus brings Sugar Cane to Hispanolia -
France is Free
Slaves are granted liberty when they touch French soil -
The Louisiana Territory
Napolean gains control og the center of North America--the Louisiana Territory--from Spain, plans to use it to feed and supply his sugar lands -
Legalizing Slavery
Napolean makes slavery legal again -
Its Against the Law
English make slave trade illegal -
New Sugar
Suraclose(Splenda) invented -
21st Century
Brazil using much of its sugar-cane crop to produce ethanol