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 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:

The authors' claim is that local Atlantic coast trade was part of a larger global system, specifically referencing the Triangle Trade. The correct evidence directly illustrates a cross-continental link within this global system, showing how different regions (Africa, India, the Americas/Europe) were interconnected through trade networks tied to sugar.

Answer:

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