What caused europe’s population to increase, to provoke its interest in trade, and provided its population with large amounts of gold and silver?

a. the commercial revolution
b. the columbian exchange
c. the triangular trade
d. the mercantilism economy

B. The Columbian Exchange

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B. the Columbian Exchange

Explanation:

It is called Columbian Exchangeal process occurred between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in which agricultural products and other foods of the New World (the American continent) in the Old World (Europe, Africa and Asia) and vice versa were released. A broader definition also includes technological advances, demographics and even diseases.

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