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Question
Answer the following question.
Why were merchants from towns in Europe began to move the countryside in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?
Solution
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, merchants from the towns in Europe began moving to the countryside, supplying money to peasants and artisans, persuading them to produce for an international market.
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