Question

How did the Commercial Revolution and its aspects facilitate human cruelty?(1 point)
Responses

European colonizers used the aspects of the Commercial Revolution to exploit banks and insurance companies in order to become richer.
European colonizers used the aspects of the Commercial Revolution to exploit banks and insurance companies in order to become richer.

European colonizers used the aspects of the Commercial Revolution to exploit Asian and Arab technology in order to become richer.
European colonizers used the aspects of the Commercial Revolution to exploit Asian and Arab technology in order to become richer.

European colonizers used the aspects of the Commercial Revolution to exploit technology and capitalism in order to become richer.
European colonizers used the aspects of the Commercial Revolution to exploit technology and capitalism in order to become richer.

European colonizers used the aspects of the Commercial Revolution to exploit Indigenous Americas and enslaved Africans in order to become richer.
European colonizers used the aspects of the Commercial Revolution to exploit Indigenous Americas and enslaved Africans in order to become richer.

Answer 1

European colonizers used the aspects of the Commercial Revolution to exploit Indigenous Americas and enslaved Africans in order to become richer.

(They used new banking, credit, joint-stock companies, insurance, and global trade networks to finance colonies, plantations, and the transatlantic slave trade, enabling large-scale exploitation and brutality.)