Answer:
A) Extending control over the economy
Explanation:
Both monarchs wanted to have powerful countries: they built magnificent palaces to glorify their power (Versailles and Saint Petersburg), engaged in wars to add more territories, and forced nobility to westernize to improve armies for example, but both failed or missed to give strength and health to country economy, and increased poverty levels in their populations, as all these improvement goals rendered a lot of expenses to the State.
Based on the number of people in both Western and Eastern Europe, the period saw <u>MORE</u> deaths in the West.
The percentage decline in population in the period was 32%.
<h3>How much did the population decline?</h3><h3 />
The population decline in Western Europe from 1340 to 1450 was:
= 35.5 - 22.5
= 13 million
In Eastern Europe it was:
= 13 - 9.3
= 3.7 million
More people therefore died in Western Europe than in Eastern Europe.
The percentage decline in population was:
= (73.5 - 50) / 73.5
= 32%
In conclusion, the population decline was 32%.
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