USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The opportunity to make money was one of the primary motivators for the colonization of the New World. The Virginia Company of London established the Jamestown colony to make a profit for its investors.

Detailed explanation-2: -Of all the commodities in the Atlantic World, sugar proved to be the most important. Indeed, in the colonial era, sugar carried the same economic importance as oil does today. European rivals raced to create sugar plantations in the Americas and fought wars for control of production.

Detailed explanation-3: -Europe also sent guns, cloth, iron, and beer to Africa in exchange fro gold, ivory, spices and hardwood. The primary export from Africa to North America and the West Indies was enslaved people to work on colonial plantations and farms.

Detailed explanation-4: -Answer and Explanation: European merchants would ship goods like guns, alcohol, textiles, and trinkets to African tribes in exchange for prisoners they had captured from enemy tribes. These prisoners, once sold to Europeans, became slaves on American and Caribbean plantations in the New World.