Question

"The Atlantic economy supplied eager European customers with mildly addictive… Crops like tobacco and coffee, along with sugar… The Atlantic plantation system transformed these three products into Items of general consumption… Investors prospered and capital for further economic development accumulated in the home country. The governments found funding and motive to develop see power. The Americas had lucrative export crafts and developed a society based on a system of labor exploitation of Africans, and Africa suffered the transport of 11 million other people into the New World"

The excerpt makes the overall argument that the Atlantic economy...

A) Eliminated competition between European nations

B)Drove long – lasting economic shifts across Europe, Africa, and the Americas

C) Contributed to the persistence of feudal economic systems

D) Contributed to the collapse of European empires


Please explain why you chose your answer an

Answer 1

Option: B) Drove long – lasting economic shifts across Europe, Africa, and the Americas.

Step-by-step explanation:

The Atlantic economy prospered with the establishment of Atlantic trade in the late 16th century. Slaves brought from Africa and transported to colonies to help the colonist in plantations to grow cash crops like tobacco, rice, coffee, and sugar. The main crop in Caribbean Island was sugar by the colonial planters from Britain and France. Tobacco and rum became some of the products shipped to Britain from American colonies.

All this led to the expansion of trade, the emergence of colonial empires, and commercial prosperity. European customers created a demand for consumer goods and increased market transactions.