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 sugarwhich 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 the local sugar trade was part of a larger global system. The first option directly states this connection between the regional Atlantic coast trade and the broader world system, which matches the core claim. The other options focus on narrower parts of trade (cutting out Europe, enslavement payment details, specific goods) that do not support the "larger world system" claim.

Answer:

○ "Simple enough; but this trade up and down the Atlantic coast was part of a much larger world system."