Paracompletion Question 7 - CAT 2024

The best place for the sentence is Option D because it introduces the main idea that Europeans did not actually create globalization from scratch. The paragraph that follows explains this further by showing that Europeans built upon trade networks and systems that were already in place.

The earlier positions don’t fit because the discussion there is mainly about existing trade connections between China and Southeast Asia. The focus is on how these early networks developed, so bringing up European involvement at that stage would feel premature.

The middle section compares trade routes from around the year 1000 with Columbus’s journey in 1492. The given sentence would interrupt this comparison rather than add to it.

Once the paragraph reaches the later section, however, the focus shifts to European involvement in global trade. The sentence works well here because it introduces the idea, and the following sentences support it by explaining how Europeans expanded and changed systems that already existed.

Therefore, Option D is the correct choice.