is sugar from the new or old world
History of sugar The people of New Guinea were probably the first to domesticate sugarcane, sometime around 8,000 BC.[5] After domestication, its cultivation spread rapidly to Southeast Asia and southern China. India, where the process of refining cane juice into granulated crystals was developed, was often visited by imperial convoys (such as those from China) to learn about cultivation and sugar refining. [6] By the sixth century AD, sugar cultivation and processing had reached Persia; and, from there that knowledge was brought into the Mediterranean by the Arab expansion.[7] "Wherever they went, the [medieval] Arabs brought with them sugar, the product and the technology of its production."[8]