Write a thesis and ONE Intro sentence and evidence sentence for the following question: To what extent did the economic systems in Europe and the Americas change in the period 1450-1750?

What does the quote describe? “the closeness of the place, and the heat of the climate, added to the number in the ship, which was so crowded that each had scarcely room to turn himself, almost suffocated us….the shrieks of the women, and the groans of the dying, rendered the whole a scene of horror almost inconceivable.”