Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. B.C. 8000–7000First planting of wild sugar cane, on the island of New Guinea 6000Sugar cane reaches the Philippines 1500–900Sugar cane used in Hindu ceremonies described in oral traditions that date from around this time 515According to the Greek author Herodotus, the Persians had found what may be sugar cane in what is now India and Pakistan 327Nearchus, friend of Alexander the Great, again mentions the reed that makes honey without bees, in India