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,

Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos

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.