Answer:
a.) Operating big businesses.
Explanation:
This is known as the Columbian Exchange; option A. This includes for example Coffee and Chocolate (the plants); which are today to a great degree cultivated in a continent different than the one they originally evolved on.
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Created an elected Legislature
Granted freedom of speech and assembly is also one.
D. Castiglione
Cesare Borgia was the Son of the Pope and Cosimo de Medici's family ruled Florence, so neither have anything to do with the royal family of Mantua. Machiavelli wrote the Prince, so that is not the correct answer either. Castiglione was part of the Royal family of Mantua and did write the Book of the Courtier. So D is the correct answer.
Local strongmen in Latin American nations were known as "Caudillos", and these were the people most likely to rise to power through military means.
