Hi. You have not shown the text to which this question refers, which makes it impossible for it to be answered. However, I will try to help you as best I can.
To answer this question, you will need to read the entire text, understand the theme and the central topic of the text, and then reread paragraph 16. The text theme is the message it wants to promote and the topic is the subject being presented in the text. For this to be developed in paragraph 16, this paragraph will need to show how this theme and topic actually apply, or the paragraph must present evidence to show that the topic and topic are real and true. In other words, we can state that this paragraph should show that it should stimulate the understanding of the topic and theme of the text, making them more palpable and identifiable for the reader.
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Industrialization has knit the world together -not just in having wrought profound technological change, but also in the consequences, both economic and social, of that change. Industrialization allowed for the mechanization of Euro-American societies and the mass production of commodities and finished goods. At the same time, industrialization facilitated the destruction of local environments all over the world with pollution and resource depletion. Industrialization also provided the means by which Europeans, Americans, and the Japanese dominated cultures and societies around the globe through both formal and informal imperialism. As a result, the "progress" of the nineteenth century should be viewed globally, with truly global consequences that still challenge the planet and its peoples.
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