The search for a shorter trade route to Asia led European explorers to establish colonies and trading posts in
along their way
A. Australia
B. Asia
C. Africa
D. North America

answer; i believe its (cpr);

monopolies  came to the united states with the colonial administration. the large-scale public works needed to make the new world hospitable to old world immigrants required large companies to carry them out. these companies were granted exclusive contracts for these works by the colonial administrators. even after the american revolution, many of these colonial holdovers still functioned due to the contracts and land

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the answer is b. hope this .