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College at Jundi Shapur brings together scholars and doctors from many lands, knowledge of how to grow, refine, and use sugar as a medicine
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1200s Egyptains bacame masters of refining the whitest sugar
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King Henry the third of England pays equivalent of $450 for thrre pounds of sugar
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Columbus brings Sugar Cane to Hispanolia
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Slaves are granted liberty when they touch French soil
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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
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Napolean makes slavery legal again
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English make slave trade illegal
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Suraclose(Splenda) invented
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Brazil using much of its sugar-cane crop to produce ethanol