Which of the following spurred the growth of a market for sugar in Europe?
a. the development of the trans-atlantic slave trade and plantation economies in the Americas
b. the strengthening of the independent indigenous nations of Mexico and South America
c. the movement of sugar-producing nations from the periphery to the core of the world system
d. the spread of capitalism from Papua New Guinea (where sugar was first domesticated) to the rest of the world
e. the impoverishment of English rural peasantry
Answer: a. the development of the trans-atlantic slave trade and plantation economies in the Americas
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