Question

sugar changed the world, part 3: word choice and multimedia
pre - test complete
read the passage from sugar changed the world.
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
which evidence best supports the authors claim and purpose?
○ \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:

To determine the best evidence, we analyze the authors' purpose (likely about sugar's role in global trade/connections). The passage emphasizes how sugar linked the world through trade. Option "Africans who sold other Africans as slaves insisted on being paid in fabrics from India" shows intercontinental trade (Africa - India) related to the slave - sugar trade system, supporting the global connection theme. Other options: first is general, second is about bypassing Europe (not central to sugar - world link), fourth is about buying Indian cloth (not showing the trade - world system link as directly as the slave - fabric trade related to sugar's world system).

Answer:

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