Use the Information Below to Answer the Following Questions

Use the information below to answer the following questions.
Fact 6.2.1
China was the largest economy for centuries because everyone had the same type of economy-subsistence-and so the country the most people would be economically biggest.Then the Industrial Revolution sent the West on a more prosperous path.No world is returning to a common economy, this time technology- and information- based, so once again population triumphs.
-Consider Fact 6.2.1.China's was the world's largest economy until the Industrial Revolution because

A) it was a large exporter of goods and services.
B) the Industrial Revolution gave the greatest growth to the countries with the largest populations.
C) it had a diverse climate.
D) it was the country with the largest land mass.
E) people in all countries had approximately the same subsistence level of income.