A. In the Middle Ages, spices that are now ordinary were rare imports from faraway places. 
Explanation: 
I got it correct on edge2020:)
 
        
                    
             
        
        
        
Answer: A, from what I know you normally don’t put anything before or after nevertheless
(Also did you mean to put commas because I’m pretty sure those are commas not semicolons)
        
             
        
        
        
Answer choice A "The speaker in the poem, as well as the chorus in the play, lament noble Antigone's terrible fate." is correct.