You have identified the claim and reason in the
passage. Write a few sentences explaining what the
author will have to do in the rest of the book to develop
a truly strong viewpoint.

Next to the statues and the head, the slab seems
unimpressive at first glance. It is roughly the size of a
tabletop-three feet nine inches long, two feet four and a
half inches wide, and eleven inches thick. But many
experts would say that this rather small piece of rock was
more valuable than any of the larger objects in the room.
For it is the famed Rosetta Stone, which gave nineteenth-
century scholars their first key to the secrets of ancient
Egypt.
- The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone,
James Cross Giblin

The vast muslim world was wonderful for the growth of knowledge. the greeks had developed a level of practical experience and technical understanding a thousand years more advanced than anyone else nearby. the muslims began to translate some of these ancient greek texts. from india, muslims learned of the zero, which allowed them to invent what we still call "arabic” numerals. and because the koran, the sacred book of islam, is written in arabic, scholars throughout the muslim world learned to read arabic and to share their knowledge. the muslims swept past jundi shapur and learned the secrets of sugar. as they conquered lands around the mediterranean sea, they spread word of how to grow, mill, and refine the sweet reed. how do the details in the passage support the central idea? the details describe the important role muslims played in spreading knowledge throughout the world. the details clarify the role jundi shapur played in spreading the secrets of sugar to the rest of the world. the details describe how muslims used knowledge from only the greeks to make innovations. the details reveal how important the koran was in muslims conquer other lands