Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World.
The year is 326 B.C. Alexander the Great stands at the
Indus River in what is now Pakistan. For a decade he
and his Greek soldiers have been battling their way
across the known world, defeating even the mighty
Persians, rulers of Asia. Alexander's string of victories
only feeds his hunger to conquer all, to know all. But
his men balk. Tired of fighting, homesick, they refuse to
go on. Alexander realizes he cannot continue to
conquer Asia, but he is too curious to stop exploring.
He has already built a fleet of eight hundred ships,
appointed his close friend Nearchus captain, and sent
them to investigate the coast of India by sea.
And it is Nearchus who stumbles upon the "sweet
reed."
The Greeks knew something of India (actually the
Indian subcontinent, the area that today includes the
nations of India and Pakistan) from the books of
Which text features would be most helpful to support
the central idea of the passage? Select two options.
Oa timeline showing how people have used sugar in
the past and up until the present
a diagram of one of the eight hundred ships that
Alexander the Great had built
Da map of Alexander the Great's route and the site of
the sugar cane discovery
Da diagram of sugar cane, showing details of its
outside and inside
a timeline showing when Darius I and Alexander the
Great learned of sugar cane