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Set 1: Cross-Text Connections

Explanation

Answer: A

PASSAGE

Text 1 The Silk Road is famous for facilitating the exchange of goods between East and West. However, its most enduring legacy may be biological. It was the primary vector for the transmission of the Black Death. Text 2 The Black Death killed up to 60% of Europe's population. This demographic collapse created a labor shortage that empowered survivors to demand higher wages, effectively ending the feudal system.

Which choice best synthesizes the causal chain presented?

A. Intercontinental trade routes facilitated a pandemic which, in turn, catalyzed major socio-economic restructuring.✓ Correct
B. Trade stopped the plague.
C. Feudalism caused the Black Death.
D. The Silk Road was built to spread disease.

Detailed Explanation

Text 1: Silk Road (Trade) -> Black Death (Vector). Text 2: Death -> Labor shortage -> End Feudalism (Restructuring). Causal chain.

Key Evidence:

• "primary vector"

• "demographic collapse"

• "ending the feudal system"

Why others are wrong: B (Vector.), C (Caused end of it.), D (Unintended.).

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