There is a sentence that is missing in the paragraph below. Look at the paragraph and decide where (option $1, 2, 3$, or $4$) the following sentence would best fit.
$\textbf{Sentence}$: [T]he Europeans did not invent globalization.
$\textbf{Paragraph}$: The first phase of globalization occurred long before the introduction of either steam or electric power...Chinese consumers at all social levels consumed vast quantities of spices, fragrant woods and unusual plants. The peoples of Southeast Asia who lived in forests gave up their traditional livelihoods and completely reoriented their economies to supply Chinese consumers.... $\_\_\_ (1) \_ \_ \_$. These exchanges of the year $1000$ opened some of the routes through which goods and peoples continued to travel after Columbus traversed the mid-Atlantic. $\_\_\_\_\_ (2) \_\_\_\_$. Yet the world of $1000$ differed from that of $1492$ in important ways....the travellers who encountered one another in the year $1000$ were much closer technologically. $\_\_\_\_(3) \_\_\_$ . They changed and augmented what was already there since $1000$. $\_\_\_\_(4) \_\_\_\_$. If globalization hadn't yet begun, Europeans wouldn't have been able to penetrate the markets in so many places as quickly as they did after $1492$.
- Option $3$
- Option $2$
- Option $4$
- Option $1$