Answer:
A) greatly expanded trade efforts in the Americas, Africa, and Asia due to greater shipping capacities and defensive capabilities
Explanation:
took the test
this isn’t even 150 points you lied.
Did it give you a choice or are you asking for one?
According to Machiavelli's the Prince, princes should act in a practical manner. Machiavelli produced a practical guide to the arts of statecraft, which served the practical needs of the powerful families that emerged in the Italian city-states during the Renaissance. Statecraft involved carefully crafted approaches to the realistic conditions faced by rulers. It was driven less by emotion or morality but reason.
Explanations, because the whole point of the socratic method is reasonable thinking.