53. Which area of the world benefitted the most from the European silver trade up through the 1800s?
a. the Middle East
b. the Americas
C. China
d. India

Not 100 Percent sure but I’m pretty sure. was the America’s. I say this because this trade had profound effects on West African society: It reoriented trade routes toward the coast rather than across the Sahara, which led to the decline of interior states. It also led to an increasing traffic in humans to work, among other places, in the silver mines of the Americas. So the Americans got labor out of it.