What do historians mean by the Price Revolution of the mid-1500s to mid-1600s?
a) widespread inflation caused by Spanish spending of silver throughout Europe, bringing to an end centuries of relatively stable prices
b) the ability of all new colonies to increase productivity in the home nation, causing a dramatic fall in prices
Consider This: By the mid-1600s, Spain was poorer than it had been 150 years earlier. See 4.1: The New World Economy.
c) the control absolute governments like that of France exercised over market prices, where formerly there had been a free market
Consider This: By the mid-1600s, Spain was poorer than it had been 150 years earlier. See 4.1: The New World Economy.
d) English insistence that all European currencies be linked to the British pound, causing an upheaval in continental money markets
Consider This: By the mid-1600s, Spain was poorer than it had been 150 years earlier. See 4.1: The New World Economy.
a) widespread inflation caused by Spanish spending of silver throughout Europe, bringing to an end centuries of relatively stable prices
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