Question

Which of the following developments in the 1500s is best illustrated by the excerpt

Answer 1

Answer:

Europeans sought new sources of wealth in the Americas.

Explanation:

With the the discovery of the New World, the European powers scrambled to get as much as land and wealth as possible from the newly discovered teritories. The New World, or the Americas, represented an unspoiled wealth of gold and other resources that the European nations wanted and needed in their neverending competition with other of European powers. So with the the discovery came the race for the resources.