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.
On a plantation there were large groups of workers—between fifty and several hundred. The mill was right next to the crop, so that growing and grinding took place in the same spot.
Which text evidence best supports the authors' claim?

"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."

Explanation: the author's claim in this excerpt is that the idea of the plantation, was revolutionary to the world of sugar because they could do all the process from planting the sugar cane to making the sugar, all in one place, it says that never in human history had farms be run like that, they always had multiple products to work on. The phrase that better represents that claim is option B.

"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."

Explanation:

Sugar Changed the World is a book written by Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos. In the book, they explore the history of sugar, particularly in slave trade.

In this excerpt, the author's claim is that plantation was considered as a revolutionary way of making sugar: the whole process from planting the seeds to drying and selling it was happening in one place. It was the first time in human history that the farms were organized in such a way. The correct answer is, therefore, the second option.

"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."

Explanation: the author's claim in this excerpt is that the idea of the plantation, was revolutionary to the world of sugar because they could do all the process from planting the sugar cane to making the sugar, all in one place, it says that never in human history had farms be run like that, they always had multiple products to work on. The phrase that better represents that claim is option B.

last option is the right answer