Identify and explain what contributed to European reduced dependence on eastern goods?

The answer is below

Explanation:

1. Europeans found America: through America, the Europeans most specifically the Spanish, British, French, and Dutch, explored all the areas of America. Not only that, send some of their people to settle there. Which helped to manage the original population at home, and also colonize the resources in the New World.

2. Europeans carried out an economic policy known as mercantilism: in which they take all kinds of resources from America at cheaper rates, refined them, and sold it back to America at an expensive price.

3. America also offers many goods that are not originally available in Europe: such as potatoes, tomatoes, fur, cotton, tobacco, tea, beans, and the likes.

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