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WorksheetsSugar Changed the World - Prologue and Part One
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 26mins
What is one reason Marc Aronson wanted to write a book about sugar?
His ancestors came from India to Guyana to become sugar farmers.
His grandmother was a Russian serf who invented a way to make sugar out of beets.
His uncle's wife was descended from a Russian serf who invented a way to make raw beet sugar more attractive.
His grandfather was one of the leaders of the Jewish community in Tel Aviv.
What is one reason Marina Budhos wanted to write a book about sugar?
Her great-grandparents became fairly wealthy as a result of their involvement in the sugar industry.
She really likes the taste of sugar in her tea.
Her father won a scholarship to Howard University to study sugar.
She was proud of her family's big white house in Letter Kenny, in Guyana.
According to Aronson and Budhos, the first thousand years of human history could just as well be called:
The Age of Sugar
The Age of Sweetness
The Cane Age
The Age of Honey
Who sent Nearchus to the coast of India in 326 B.C.?
Napoleon Bonaparte
Darius I
Alexander the Great
T'Challa of Wakanda
What is significant about the year 510 B.C.?
Sugar was first cultivated in New Guinea
Polynesian seafarers took cane with them when the sailed to Hawaii.
According to Herodatus, Darius I invaded India and discovered sugar cane.
Pope Urban II sends European soldiers to fight the Muslims, from whom they learned the process of growing and refining sugar.
What were the three things Indians used sugar for between 1500 and 900 B.C.? (choose all that apply)
Medicine
Religious offerings
Decoration
Dessert ("Khanda")
Jundi Shapur was...
A Persian hero who invaded India and discovered sugar cane.
A Greek philosopher who wrote about the discovery of sugar cane.
The school in Athens where sugar was researched and refined, as well as a place from which knowledge of sugar spread.
A university in Persia where sugar was researched and refined, as well as a place from which knowledge of sugar spread.
What country is considered the world's great sugar laboratory?
Syria
Egypt
Persia
Mediterranea
In what two ways are Muslims responsible for the evolution and spread of sugar? (Choose two answers)
Muslims found new and better ways to purify and improve sugar.
Muslims used sugar as lavish decorations.
Muslims sold sugar to the Italians, who then brought it to Europe.
Muslims conquered most of the Mediterranean countries and forced them to eat sugar.
What were "The Champagne Fairs"?
An annual cycle of trading fairs in Italy, where merchants first introduced sugar to the European countries.
An annual cycle of trading fairs in Germany, where merchants first introduced sugar to the European countries.
An annual cycle of trading fairs in Wakanda, where merchants first introduced sugar to the European countries.
An annual cycle of trading fairs in France, where merchants first introduced sugar to the European countries.
In what year did Pope Urban II rally Christians of Western Europe to go out and "take back" Israel from the Muslims?
1510
1100
1095
953 B.C.
According to the text, what were two of the biggest problems in refining cane into sugar? (choose two answers)
Growing the amount of cane necessary to produce sugar severely impacted the bee population.
Cane became too dry if not refined quickly after being cut.
There weren't enough workers to properly staff the sugar plantation and processing centers.
Boiling cane required a substantial amount of wood to burn, which proved problematic for sugar makers.
