Answer:
Factors:
-The land was well suited for sugar plantations.
-Sugar was in high demand.
-Sugar was easy to load on ships and transport to Europe.
Not Factors:
-Portuguese laborers agreed to work in plantations only if sugar was grown.
-Sugar crops did not require hard labor.
-European traders had no experience trading with Africans.
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Increased the Gross Domestic Product output of several countries,and monopolies emerged.
Mostly they affected it through their imperialism. They would colonize and take over countries for resources, and with them they would bring their technologies and things that they needed. After they left these things stayed, things like telephone and telegram lines and similar things. Culturally, they would mostly disregard the local culture and impose their own which would often be accepted and kept by the locals, but often there was also warfare.