What Accounted for the Drop of Spain's Importance as a Commercial

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Multiple Choice

What accounted for the drop of Spain's importance as a commercial power in the seventeenth century?

• A)Focus on the South American empire
• B)Overextension as they tried to control the Asian market.
• C)A drop in the output of the silver mines and poverty of the Spanish monarchy
• D)Overthrow of the Bourbon dynasty during the Seven Year's War
• E)Piracy of Spanish galleons by British Man o' War ships.

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