As the golden fish continued to beg for its freedom, the fisherman continued to pull the thick golden rope into his boat. The harder the fisherman pulled, the more rope he pulled into the boat. The boat became very heavy and began to fill slowly with water, but the fisherman did not notice. Silly fish, thought the fisherman. Who needs him? With this rope, I can be the richest man in all of China!“What do you think of me now, golden fish?” asked the fisherman. “When I sell you and this rope, I will be the richest man in China. What do you think of me now?” But the golden fish did not answer. The golden fish had disappeared. As the fisherman searched the lake for the golden fish, he realized that his boat was sinking. He had pulled too much rope into the boat! The fisherman tried to throw the rope back into the lake, but the rope was too heavy and the fisherman was too tired. All he could do was watch helplessly as his boat sank into the lake, taking his fishing line and the golden rope with it. The fisherman was left with nothing. As he swam to shore, he heard a voice call out to him. “Here is your lesson, fisherman. He who is greedy is always in want.”Henry’s LessonHenry was a bad dog, a very bad dog indeed. He dug up flowerbeds, swam in the neighbors’ pools, and barked at every car that drove by. Henry was never satisfied. He always wanted more. When his owners took him for a walk, the walk was never long enough. When he went to the park to play with the other dogs, he always demanded to stay longer than everyone else. Henry’s owners did everything they could to teach Henry to behave and to be satisfied, but nothing worked. “One day,” they told Henry, “you will learn your lesson.” Maybe, thought Henry, but that day is not today! PLS RIGHT A PARAGRAGH 3 PARAGRAGHS

In just over one hundred years, between 1701 and 1810, 252,500 enslaved africans were brought to barbados—an island that occupies only 166 square miles (making it, today, one of the smallest countries in the world). the english then set out to conquer more sugar islands, starting with jamaica, which they took from spain in 1655. in the same period that the 252,500 africans were brought to barbados, 662,400 africans were taken to jamaica. thus, sugar drove more than 900,000 people into slavery, across the atlantic, to barbados and jamaica—and these were just two of the sugar islands. the english were eagerly filling antigua, nevis, saint kitts, and montserrat with slaves and sugar mills. they took over much of dutch guiana for the same reason. seeing the fortunes being made in sugar, the french started their own scramble to turn the half of the island of hispaniola that they controlled (which is now haiti), as well as martinique, guadeloupe, and french guiana (along the south american coast near dutch guiana), into their own sugar colonies, which were filled with hundreds of thousands more african slaves. by 1753, british ships were taking average of 34,250 slaves from africa every year, and by 1768, that number had reached 53,100. –sugar changed the world, marc aronson and marina budhos how do the authors use historical evidence to support their claim? x(a) they use secondary sources to show how french and english monarchs were indifferent to enslaved people. x(b)they use secondary sources to show that enslaved people often fought for their freedom after arriving in the caribbean. the answer is: (c)they use facts from primary sources to show how countries increased the number of enslaved people to produce more sugar. x(d)they use primary source interviews to show that countries could make more money in trading sugar without using enslaved people.