But the Crusades were more than battles; they were also an information exchange. As a result of their contact with Muslims, the Europeans began to break out of their sealed-off world. They learned mathematics and, according to some scholars, how to build windmills. Windmills were a great power source that allowed Europeans to drain swamps and make use of lands that had previously gone to waste. With more land, they could grow more food. This knowledge that Muslims had helped Europe to get on its feet. And wars against the Muslims brought Europeans to sugar.
–Sugar Changed the World,
Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos
How does the underlined sentence develop the central idea that the Crusades had both negative and positive results?
It relays the importance of wind energy during the Crusades.
It demonstrates that Muslims were the only group of people with good inventions.
It shows that a Muslim invention benefited European society.
It illustrates that Europeans were good at inventing new things.
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