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