Why Did the Balance of Economic Power Shift to Northern

question 55

Multiple Choice

Why did the balance of economic power shift to northern Europe in the seventeenth century?

• A) Northern Europeans began industrializing with factories and heavy industry, while southern Europeans maintained an agricultural economy.
• B) Southern Europe experienced a heavy population migration to the New World after the discovery of gold and silver, which left few workers to plow the fields.
• C) Northern Europeans invested in new agricultural techniques and the robust Atlantic trade, eclipsing southern Europe's Mediterranean trade and population decline.
• D) Northern European privateers plundered the ships filled with gold from Spain and Portugal's New World colonies, leaving those Iberian countries bankrupt.

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