750plus Wrote:The passage is primarily concerned with
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I cannot eliminate B whole heartedly because para 3 talks about ...
RonPurewal Wrote:ok, i read some words incorrectly the first time. i've redacted those parts to prevent confusion.
...so we have one poster saying the answer is C, and one saying it's E.
it should be E. the support is here:
In the 1930s, however, Evgeny Kosminsky and other Marxist historians claimed the epidemic was merely an ancillary factor contributing to a general agrarian crisis stemming primarily from the inevitable decay of European feudalism. In arguing that this decline of feudalism was economically determined, ...
^^ there you go.
'merely' = this is all it was; it wasn't anything else. so, kosminsky is saying that this is the entire significance of the plague. (he is also saying that the significance is minimal.)
so—he is saying that we can understand the (small) significance of the plague entirely in terms of its (small) effect on this economic stuff.
RonPurewal Wrote:750plus Wrote:The passage is primarily concerned with
...
I cannot eliminate B whole heartedly because para 3 talks about ...
'primarily' is an important word.
you're seeing something that's not even mentioned until 3/4ths of the way through the passage (and is then mentioned only passingly).
so you are completely disregarding the word 'primarily'. whoops.
RonPurewal Wrote:and, right. there's no support for choice C.
choice E would be correct if kosminsky had brought in some facts about a part of the world other than europe and made the case that these facts were essential to understanding the stuff about europe.
but he does no such thing. everything he mentions is within europe.
