Trade Manufacturing and Social Change
The expansion of trade networks and the development of new manufacturing technologies during the eighteenth century contributed most significantly to which of the following changes in European social structures?
A
They resulted in a uniform decrease in population as rural areas were abandoned.
B
They stimulated urbanization and facilitated the rise of a robust middle class.
C
They diminished the importance of colonial enterprises in economic planning.
D
They led to the immediate dissolution of feudal hierarchies across Europe.
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