Day 3: Sat Sept 8th 2018 – Bahrija to Birzebbugia Back into the furnace For Running Around Malta Part 1 click here. Enjoying stunning scenery and discovering the ups and downs of solo adventures.
Which details would best fit in a summary of this passage? Select two options.For my end of summer holiday I chose to run around the coastline of Malta alone. In Part 2 of my run around the island I deal with fear of dangers both imagined and real. Five ingredients were selected for this special burning: milk, cheese, butter, honey, and sugar cane. By placing offerings in a special fire, a priest could turn them into smoke and send them on to the gods.
Yet fire was also a way for humans to reach the gods. People believed that the gods gave fire to human beings. The Hindu writings tell us of a religion in which fire was extremely important. Only hundreds of years later were they finally written down. These Hindu sacred teachings were probably first gathered together sometime between 1500 and 900 B.C., and were carefully memorized. So the first documents telling us about life in that region come from a much later period. Unfortunately, we are still not able to read the writings left behind from those ancient cities. Long before the first pyramids were built in Egypt, the ancient Sumerians traded with the people of Harappa and Mohenjo Daro, who lived along the Indus River. How does the heading help the reader understand the central idea of this passage?īut it is in India, where it was used as an offering in religious and magical ceremonies, that we have the first written record of sugar. Since the school had links with many of the great civilizations of Asia, the Mediterranean, and Europe, word of sugar and the experience of tasting its special sweetness began to spread. Indeed, scholars at Jundi Shapur invented new and better ways to refine cane into sugar. At Jundi Shapur the best scholars west of China all gathered to think and study together.īy the 600s, the doctors at the school were writing about a medicine from India named sharkara or, as the Persians called it, shaker-sugar. The school created the very first teaching hospital in the world, a place where the sick were treated and young doctors learned their craft, as well as a fine observatory to track the heavens. Persians added their voices, and one of their learned doctors set off for what is now India, to gather and translate the wisdom of the Hindus. Jews joined them, as did a group of Christians called Nestorians, who had their own ancient and scholarly traditions. The remaining Greek scholars moved to Jundi Shapur. In 529, Christians closed the school of Athens-the last link to the academies of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. It was the meeting place of the world's great minds. We can only guess the dates, but we do know more about the school. Jundi Shapur was built in what is now Iran sometime between the 400s and mid-500s A.D. But in its time, it was an exceptional university. Today, few people have heard of Jundi Shapur. Which text features would be most helpful to support the central idea of the passage? Select two options. He reported that when the Persian emperor Darius I invaded India around 510 B.C., his men found a sweet reed that produced honey. 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 Herodotus, a writer who lived about a century earlier. He has already built a fleet of eight hundred ships, appointed his close friend Nearchus captain, and sent them to investigate the coast of lndia by sea.Īnd it is Nearchus who stumbles upon the "sweet reed." Alexander realizes he cannot continue to conquer Asia, but he is too curious to stop exploring. Tired of fighting, homesick, they refuse to go on. Alexander's string of victories only feeds his hunger to conquer all, to know all. 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 the Great stands at the Indus River in what is now Pakistan. Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World.
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