Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World.
How do the details in this passage support the authors'
Sugar is different from honey. It offers a stronger sweet
purpose?
flavor, and like steel or plastic, it had to be invented. In
the Age of Sugar, Europeans bought a product made
• The comparison of honey to sugar production helps
persuade
readers that honey is better than sugar.
thousands of miles away that was less expensive than
the honey from down the road. That was possible only
O The details about sugar's dependency on slavery
because sugar set people in motion all across the world
help inform readers about why sugar was
-millions of them as slaves, in chains; a few in search
inexpensive.
Of their fortunes. A perfect taste made possible by the
• The details about the sugar's strong flavor entertain
most brutal labor: That is the dark story of sugar.
the reader with stories of how people invented sugar.
• The comparison of the invention of sugar to steel
helps persuade readers that sugar
is easier to make
than steel.