"The development of a plantation economy, beginning in the sixteenth century, transformed Africa, America, Europe, and Asia, too. It displaced the old silk trade and shifted the increasingly dynamic
center of the world economy westward to the Atlantic...
"The Atlantic economy supplied eager European consumers 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 sea power. The Americas had lucrative export crops and developed a society based on a system of labor exploitation of Africans, and Africa suffered the transport of eleven million of its
people to the New World:
Thomas Bender, historian, A Nation Among Nations: America's Place in World History, 2006
The second paragraph of the excerpt makes which of the following claims about the introduction to Europe of new crops from the Americas?
A They remained relatively unpopular.
They required little labor to produce.
С
They stimulated economies across Europe,
They replaced traditional agricultural products.
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"The development of a plantation economy, beginning in the sixteenth century, transformed Africa, Am...