They needed to rebuild destroyed infrastructure. They needed to repay money they had borrowed.
Explanation:
The total expenditure for all the European powers were too huge and magnanimous. Destruction to the lives and property were incalculable. Many deaths and damage to the property were not officially recorded as it was claimed to be missing. Disruption of the world trade was the major impact faced by Europe after the world war I.
Prices skyrocketed, unemployment lingered in the European societies and a temporary economic depression was also recorded which made people difficult to carry on their sustenance. Another problem was the immigrants who tried to resettle in Europe after the war. Post war period recorded a low standard of living for the Europeans, Restrictions were imposed on the consumption of domestic products due to the shortage of supply.
<span><span>so merchants could keep track of transactions </span>is closest to being correct, and icabod has it mostly "write". </span>
The phenomenon that triangular trade most directly encouraged was slavery. The first part of the triangle was the crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by Europeans wishing to sell their products. With the money obtained the europeans would buy slaves; sometimes they would just trade the products they brought directly for slaves. The same european ships would then sail to America to sell the slaves as plantation labourers. With the money obtained the europeans bought raw products like cotton and took them to Europe for further processing. The complete cycle took like a year.
Im guessing its capitalist economy
The least trustworthy source of information for a project on the Jamestown settlement a summary of events posted on an anti-British website.