שאלה | Question: During which period was there a sharp rise in drug use across the world?

Question: During which period was there a sharp rise in drug use across the world?

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		A) From the beginning of the 16th century until the end of the 19th century
		B) From the end of the 15th century until the beginning of the 16th century
		C) From the end of the 13th century until the beginning of the 15th century
		D) From the end of the 17th century until the beginning of the 18th century

Explanation: The lectures frame the “early modern” to 19th-century era as a period of expanding global commodity circuits and empire, in which intoxicants (tobacco, coffee, sugar, opium, etc.) spread rapidly worldwide—producing a major rise in use from roughly the 16th through the 19th centuries. (Lecture/Reading: Breen, The Age of Intoxication; also contextualized in Ram, Middle East Drug Cultures in the Long View.)