Answer:
C. the transition to a market-based economy.
Explanation:
Mercantilism led to the creation of monopolistic trading companies, such as the East India Company and the French East India Company. Restrictions on where finished goods could be purchased led in many cases to burdensome high prices for those goods.
Russia's Communist government tried to improve food production by "<span>b. taking over ownership of farms," since this was part of their centrally planned economy (which ultimately failed).</span>
