Question

read the passage from sugar changed the world. which evidence best supports the authors claim and purpose? if you walked down beekman street in new york in the 1750s, you would come to a general store owned by gerard beekman—his family gave the street its name. the products on his shelves showed many of the ways sugar was linking the world. beekman and merchants like him shipped flour, bread, corn, salted beef, and wood to the caribbean. they brought back sugar, rum, molasses, limes, cocoa, and ginger. simple enough; but this trade up and down the atlantic coast was part of a much larger world system. textbooks talk about the triangle trade. ships set out from europe carrying fabrics, clothes, and simple manufactured goods to africa, where they sold their cargoes and bought people. the enslaved people were shipped across the atlantic to the islands, where they were sold for sugar. then the ships brought sugar to north america, to be sold or turned into rum—which \simple enough; but this trade up and down the atlantic coast was part of a much larger world system.\ \beekmans trade, for example, could cut out europe entirely.\ \africans who sold other africans as slaves insisted on being paid in fabrics from india.\ \what could the europeans use to buy indian cloth?\

Explanation:

The authors' claim is that sugar linked the world in a larger system. The evidence "Africans who sold other Africans as slaves insisted on being paid in fabrics from India" shows the global connection. It indicates that the slave - sugar trade (involving Africa and the Caribbean for sugar) was connected to India (for fabrics), which is part of a larger global web. The other options either just describe a part of the local trade (like Beekman's trade) or ask a question (which is not evidence) or talk about a local aspect of cutting out Europe (not showing the global link as comprehensively as the India - Africa - sugar connection).

Answer:

"Africans who sold other Africans as slaves insisted on being paid in fabrics from India."