Question

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 out bread, corn, salted
bcef, 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 reacted
on being paid in fabrics from india.\
○ \what could the europeans use to buy indian
cloth?\

Explanation:

The authors' claim is that the trade up and down the Atlantic coast was part of a much larger world system, using the example of Beekman's general store and the interconnected trade routes (including the Triangle Trade). We need to find evidence that directly supports this interconnected, large-scale global trade network.

• The first option restates the core claim but does not provide supporting evidence.
• The second option only talks about Beekman's local business scope, not the larger global system.
• The third option shows a cross-continental (Africa, Americas, India) trade link involving enslaved people, which demonstrates the far-reaching, interconnected global trade system that the authors describe.
• The fourth option is an incomplete question that does not provide supporting evidence.

Answer:

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