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What evidence from the passage best supports the
inference that sugar cane had special significance in the
ancient era? Select three options.
Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World.
One of these early Hindu writings, the Atharva Veda,
speaks of an archer's bow made of sugar cane. It tells of
growing a circle of sugar cane as a kind of sweet
protection for a lover, and it includes specific instructions
on how to use sugar cane. To worship and request help
from Durga, the most important goddess, you lie down
and face a three-cornered fire pot. Then, as you speak
the sacred words, you place your offerings in the fire.
"you lie down and face a three-cornered fire por
"sugar cane was now an ingredient in ceremonies
involving fire"
"it crystallized into sweet, dark brown clumps"
"Perhaps that transformation itself seemed magical
"sugar cane is called ikshu, which means 'something
that people want"
Sugar cane was now an ingredient in ceremonies
involving fire. Maybe after many, many offerings a priest
noticed that if the juice of the cane was boiled in the right
way, it crystallized into sweet, dark brown clumps.
Perhaps that transformation itself seemed magical-a
heated liquid turning into something that looked like dark
grains of sand. In the Atharva Veda, sugar cane is called
ikshu, which means "something that people want, or
"they began to use the name sharkara, which also
meant 'gravel
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