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326
326 B.C. (Page 9,10)
Nearchus, a Greek captain, discovers a sweet tasting reed along the coast of India. He and his men had assumed it was producing honey since it produced such a sweet tasting juice when opened. Although it was not known at the time, the captain and his men had stumbled upon sugar cane. This discovery would eventually bring about the end of the Age of Honey. -
Sep 1, 600
400-600 A.D. (Page 15,16)
Jundi Shapur University begins using sugar as medicine and develops ways to refine sugar cane. -
Sep 1, 642
642 A.D. (Page 16-23)
Islam spreads arcoss the world. The Muslims learn, use, and teach the secrets of sugar. As they conquer lands, they spread word on how to grow, mill, and refine sugar. -
Sep 1, 1493
1493 A.D. (Page 31)
Christopher Columbus brings sugar cane to Hispanola. As a result, more slaves are sent to sugar plantations and the plantations begin to flourish. -
1662 A.D. (Page 64-65)
Tea was introduced to England and the world when England's Charles the Second married a Portuguese princess and she brought Bombay and tea as a part of her dowry. -
1747 A.D. (page 113-114)
Andraeas Marggraf, a German scientist, mashed beets and extracted the chemical elements in them that made them sweet. He soon proved that these elements from the mashed beets were identical to sugar obtained from sugar cane. As a result of this discovery, beets would become the most popular form of sweetener. -
1800's A.D. (Page 88)
French sugar masters from Haiti begin to arrive in Louisiana. They begin to make sugar plantations across the state and import slaves to work there as well. They ultimately turn Louisiana into a sugar state. -
1791-1801 A.D (Page 83-84)
The world's largest sugar plantation center of Saint Dominique becomes taken by force by rebelling slaves, led by a man named Toussaint. They eventually destroy all sugar plantations and eventually free all living slaves from their forced labor in Saint Dominique. -
1803 A.D. (Page 92)
Napolean's plan to make large sugar profits fails with the falied conquest to re-take Saint Dominique from the rebelling slaves. As a result, he no longer had use for the land in North America, so Napolean sold the Louisiana Territory to Thomas Jefferson for 15 million dollars to pay for his war efforts. -
900's A.D. (Page 2,27)
Sugar plantations are first established in Muslim Mediterranean and Spain. Slaves are used to do the work on the plantations.