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Under mercantilism, what was the MAIN export of European countries?

tobacco
manufactured goods
furs
Sugar

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manufactured goods

First popularized in Europe during the 1500s, mercantilism was based on the idea that a nation's wealth and power were best served by increasing exports, in an effort to collect precious metals like gold and silver. Mercantilism replaced the feudal economic system in Western Europe

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