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
bcef, 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 claim about the larger world system linked by sugar. The passage's claim is about how trade (like Beekman's) was part of a broader global system. The option "Beekman’s trade, for example, could cut out Europe entirely" shows that his trade was part of a larger network (since it could bypass Europe, implying connections beyond Europe), supporting the claim of a much larger world system. Other options either describe a specific aspect (enslaved Africans being paid) or ask a question (not evidence) or restate part of the claim without supporting it.

Answer:

B. Beekman’s trade, for example, could cut out Europe entirely