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Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the underlined phrase in the following sentence. By that time, cinnamon was being grown in other parts of the Indian Ocean region and in the West Indies, Brazil and Guyana. Not only was a complete control and possession of cinnamon becoming impossible, but the spice trade overall was diminishing in economic potential and was eventually superseded by the rise of trade in coffee, tea, chocolate and sugar.