Read the passage from sugar changed the world. b. c. 8000–7000 first planting of wild sugar cane, on the island of new guinea 6000 sugar cane reaches the philippines 1500–900 sugar cane used in hindu ceremonies described in oral traditions that date from around this time 515 according to the greek author herodotus, the persians had found what may be sugar cane in what is now india and pakistan 327 nearchus, friend of alexander the great, again mentions the reed that makes honey without bees, in india 286 first mention of sugar cane in china what is the purpose of this section of text? to contrast how different people used sugar to explain sugar cane’s ceremonial purpose to compare sugar cane use to honey use to provide the history of sugar cane use