The Following Questions Refer to the Excerpt Below

The following questions refer to the excerpt below.
"In the middle of the fifteenth century,Europe,Africa,and the Americas came together,creating-among other things-a new economy.At the center of that economy was the plantation,an enterprise dedicated to the production of exotic commodities-the most prominent being sugar-for a distant market.The sugar plantation,which first developed in the Mediterranean,was an enormously complex unit of production requiring the mobilization of vast amounts of capital,the development of new technologies (agricultural,industrial,and maritime) ,the invention of management techniques,and-because sugar production was extraordinarily labor intensive-the employment of huge numbers of workers."
Historian Ira Berlin,"The Discovery of the Americas and the Transatlantic Slave Trade"
-Which of the following historical trends does the passage reflect?

A) The partnership of Portuguese and West African traders to create an Atlantic economy based on slavery
B) Declining European interest in technologies in the era of colonization
C) Growing native American alliances in the American southwest
D) The introduction of livestock and other sources of protein into the Americas