Question

why were merchants from towns in Europe begin to move countryside in 17th and 18th century?​

Answer 1

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Merchants from towns in Europe began to move countryside in seventeenth and eighteenth centuries because of trade guilds, associations of producers, trained craftsmen and artisans who restricted the entry of new people into the trade. ... It was therefore difficult for new merchants to set up business in towns.

Answer 2

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In the 17th and 18th centuries,merchants from the towns in Europe began moving to the countryside, supplying money to peasants and artisans, persuading them to produce for an international market. The merchants could not expand production within towns because here urban crafts and trade guilds were powerful.