Which of the sentences below best expresses the essential information in the highlighted sentence in the passage? Incorrect choices change the meaning in important ways or leave out essential information.

• Commerce, industrialization, and development are common features of the Western experience.
• Trade, industrialization, and development accelerated social change in Western societies.
• Trade and industrialization brought about development in Western societies.
• In Western societies, social change provided the conditions for development in a number of areas.

This is a multiple choice.