The transatlantic slave trade<span> laid the foundation for modern capitalism, generating immense wealth for business enterprises in America and Europe</span>
        
             
        
        
        
Nationalism and I quote “identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.”
        
                    
             
        
        
        
The people of the Fourth Crusade were the ones who captured and partitioned the empire.
        
             
        
        
        
Democratic<span>and </span>communist<span> political systems are based on </span>different<span> ideological principles. Although superficially they seem to share the "power to the people" philosophy, in practice the two systems of government structure the economic and political fabric of society in markedly </span>different<span> ways.</span>
        
             
        
        
        
Answer:
True.
Explanation:
Readers generally like to look at the first few sentences in a paragraph to determine the subject of the paragraph. That's why it's best to put the topic sentence at the beginning of a paragraph. The vast majority of your paragraphs however, should have a topic sentence.