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Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. 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. Which text evidence best supports the authors' claim about plantations? ) "The Muslims worked out a new form of farming to handle sugar, which came to be called the sugar plantation." "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." "The mill was right next to the crop so that growing and grinding took place in the same spot."
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The text evidence that best supports the authors' claim about plantations is: "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." This sentence highlights the unique focus of plantations on producing a single product for sale in distant markets, which is central to the authors' claim about the nature of sugar plantations.