User talk:Psuliin
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What a strange welcome message... Well, welcome to wikipedia anyway! ---J.S (t|c) 17:38, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
Timing[edit]
Under History, the page reads,
"Crystallized sugar was discovered by the time of the Imperial Guptas, around the 5th century AD....The triumphant progress of Alexander the Great was halted on the banks of the Indus River by the refusal of his troops to go further east. They saw people in the Indian subcontinent growing sugarcane and making granulated, salt-like sweet powder, locally called Sharkara (Devanagari:शर्करा,Śarkarā), Latin saccharum, Greek ζάκχαρι (zakkhari)."
So on the one hand it was discovered around 450 AD, and on the other hand Alexander's soldiers saw people harvesting cane and making sugar around 800 years earlier, in 340 BC.
Can this be reconciled? Psuliin (talk) 06:27, 6 March 2016 (UTC)