The economic centrality of long-distance trade and the lack of long feudal traditions opened a path for which social class to rise to dominance relatively quickly in the New World?
a. Independent farmer/peasant
b. proletarian
c. merchant
d. aristocracy
e. monarchy
Answer: c. merchant
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