How did the age of exploration impact trading trends in the indian ocean that
had started during the postclassical era?
a. it allowed european traders to seize control of indian ocean trade
from muslim merchants.
o
b. it encouraged indian empires to stop trading with increasingly
powerful european kingdoms.
o
c. it weakened the ottoman empire making land-based trade more
valuable than indian ocean trade.
o
d. it ended the flow of cheap chinese products into europe following
the commercial revolution.