The correct answer to this open question is the following.
One way in which commodities affected economies in the Americas, Africa, and Europe in the period c. 1450 to 1750 was the following.
European superpowers dominated the world economy in that above-mentioned period. The Columbus exchange represented the trade and transportation of goods, people, and diseases, affecting the Americas.
These European nations explored, conquered, and colonized many territories in North America, Mesoamerica, South America, and Asia.
In North America, white English colonies settled towns and founded colonies. In Mesoamerica and South America, the Spanish did d the same. English, French, Spaniards, and even Portuguese in the region of modern-day Brasil, exploited the many raw materials and natural resources to make huge profits trading goods.
Yeats later, something similar happened with the Scramble for Africa. Those European nations and Germany colonized and splot the African territory from 1845 to approximately 1914. They did exactly the same, exploited the raw materials for big profits.
