The Rise of Global Markets Practice Test

As European global trade expanded in the eighteenth century, plantation economies in the Caribbean and the Americas produced sugar and other cash crops for European consumers. This system depended heavily on coerced labor, and European ports profited from shipping, refining, and re-exporting colonial goods. Which statement best describes a key consequence of this Atlantic economic system for Europe?

In the early eighteenth century, European consumers purchased increasing quantities of Caribbean sugar and Asian cottons, even as European merchants and states expanded plantation zones and fortified trading posts. This pattern reflected a growing integration of production and consumption across oceans. Which concept best captures this transformation in Europe’s economy?