The growth of a market for sugar in Europe spurred
A. a long-term improvement in the distribution of wealth among the rural peasantry of England.
B. a tremendous expansion in the strength of independent indigenous nations of Mexico and South America.
C. the development of a transatlantic slave trade.
D. the movement of sugar-producing nations from the periphery to the core of the world system.
E. the movement of capitalism, once a cultural trait specific to New Guinea (where sugar was first domesticated), to the rest of the world.
Answer: C
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