Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World.
THE WORLD'S FIRST TRUE UNIVERSITY
Today, few people have heard of Jundi Shapur. But in its
time, it was an exceptional university. Jundi Shapur was
built in what is now Iran sometime between the 400s and
mid-500s A.D. We can only guess the dates, but we do
know more about the school. It was the meeting place of
the world's great minds. In 529, Christians closed the
school of Athens-the last link to the academies of
Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. The remaining Greek
scholars moved to Jundi Shapur. Jews joined them, as
did a group of Christians called Nestorians, who had
their own ancient and scholarly traditions. Persians
added their voices, and one of their learned doctors set
off for what is now India, to gather and translate the
wisdom of the Hindus. The school created the very first
How does the heading help the reader understand the
central idea of this passage?
O It convinces the reader that other universities are
inferior.
It informs the reader that the text will focus on a
specific school.
O It reveals how this section of text is related to sugar.
O It implies that the passage will describe types of
universities.