European Wealth and Prosperity in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

European wealth and prosperity in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries may be attributed at least in part to:

A) their Asian, African, and American colonies.
B) the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
C) the Peace of Westphalia that brought a century of peace to Europe.
D) the creation of a free trade zone on the continent, the beginnings of the Common Market.
E) the Reformation that caused the redistribution of the Church's wealth to individual countries.