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)

Question

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)
Responses

globalization
globalization

capitalism
capitalism

mercantilism
mercantilism

transatlantic slave trade

GPT-4o mini · Answer

The economic system you are referring to is **mercantilism**.