Question

global contact online practice
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during the columbian exchange, millions of africans were forcefully transported to the americas, where they labored to produce natural resources to benefit the economies of the european colonizers by increasing imports and limiting colonial trade. what was this economic system? (1 point)
o transatlantic slave trade
o globalization
o capitalism
o mercantilism

Explanation:

Mercantilism aimed to increase a nation's wealth by maximizing exports and minimizing imports, often using colonies for resources. Africans were forced - laborers in the Americas under European colonial mercantilist systems. Trans - atlantic slave trade was the means of transporting slaves, globalization is a modern concept, and capitalism is a broader economic system not specifically defined by the described trade and resource - extraction practices.

Answer:

D. mercantilism