Great job reading the lesson pages and completing your travel journal! Remember, your travel journal is a note taking tool to use as you read your lesson pages in the course. These important notes will help you complete your lesson assessment, as well as, prepare you for DBA's, module exams and segment exams. You do not need to submit your travel journal for grading. Instead you will read the directions on the assessment page to learn what you will need to submit for grading. For example to learn about what is required in this lesson assessment you should begin by reading the assessment directions, then answer complete the Ancient Civilizations Chart and lastly submit the Ancient Civilizations Chart for grading. Assessment Directions: You should now understand what makes up a civilization. Now you will apply your learning by filling out a comparative chart and answering the focus question that follows. Steps Complete the reading and activities for the lesson. Review your Travel journal. Complete your "Ancient Civilization Chart."

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. sugar is a taste we all want, a taste we all crave. people throughout the planet everywhere have been willing to do anything, anything at all, to get that touch of sweetness. we even know exactly how thrilling it was to taste sugar for the first time. when the lewis and clark expedition met up with the shoshone, who had little previous contact with old world products, sacagawea gave a tiny piece of sugar to a chief. he loved it, saying it was "the best thing he had ever tasted." sugar created a hunger, a need, which swept from one corner of the world to another, bringing the most terrible misery and destruction, but then, too, the most inspiring ideas of liberty. sugar changed the world. we begin that story with a man who could never know enough. how does the conclusion of the prologue support the authors’ purpose? select two options. it introduces the topic that will be addressed next. it provides information about the authors. it states why the topic is relevant to readers. it cites sources the authors used in the text. it explains how the authors came to study the subject.