A free market is an economy system where the prices for services and goods are set freely between the vendors and consumers. There is no interventions by the government, price-setting monopoly or other authority. From the choices given, the best answer would be politics. Politics will not influence a free market.
A-Spanish Conquistador, hope it helped
I would say B. Because the europeans needed the civil war so they could stop the mughal empire advance. They had plenty of spice as it was the main trade of the mughal empire. A is what the civil war was about making b the only suitable answer.