Question

in mediaeval Europe rise were used as 1. sweeteners 2.medicine 3.a form of money 4.all of the above​

Answer 1

Answer:

Sugar was first produced from sugarcane plants in Northern India sometime after the first century AD.[1] The derivation of the word “sugar” is thought to be from Sanskrit शर्करा (śarkarā), meaning "ground or candied sugar," originally "grit, gravel". Sanskrit literature from ancient India, written between 1500 - 500 BC provides the first documentation of the cultivation of sugar cane and of the manufacture of sugar in the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent.[2][3] The Sanskrit name for a crudely made sugar substance was guda, meaning “to make into a ball or to conglomerate."[2]