How did the long-term reliance on a plantation economy influence settlement patterns in the Caribbean?
What will be an ideal response?
There are many ways in which the plantation economy influenced settlement patterns. The social organization of the plantation economies, combined with systems of trade, concentrated European residents into urban areas; the spatial extent of plantations influenced the distribution of villages; and the legacy of slavery contributed to the formation of maroon societies.
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