Read the passage from sugar changed the world.
which text evidence best supports the authors' claim?
the muslims worked out a new form of farming to handle
sugar, which came to be called the sugar plantation. a
plantation was not a new technology but, rather, a new
way of organizing planting, growing, cutting, and refining a
crop. on a regular farm there may be cows, pigs, and
chickens, fields of grain, orchards filled with fruit-many
different kinds of foods to eat or sell. by contrast, the
plantation had only one purpose to create a single
product that could be grown, ground, boiled, dried, and
sold to distant markets. since one cannot live on sugar,
the crop grown on plantations could not even feed the
people who harvested it. never before in human history
had farms been run this way, as machines designed to
satisfy just one craving of buyers who could be thousands
of miles away
o "a plantation was not a new technology but, rather, a
new way of organizing planting, growing, cutting, and
refining a crop."
o "by contrast, the plantation had only one purpose: to
create a single product that could be grown, ground,
boiled, dried, and sold to distant markets."
o "since one cannot live on sugar, the crop grown on
plantations could not even feed the people who
harvested it."
o "the mill was right next to the crop, so that growing
and grinding took place in the same spot."
on a plantation there were large groups of workers-