What invention significantly improved transportation and trade in Europe during the eighteenth century?

1.) The benefits to Europe form the eighteenth-century trade pattern includes supplies like whale oil, fur, iron. lumber, ginger, silk, rice, indigo, tobacco, sugar, molasses, fruit, meat, fish, rum, and grain. Also they made money exporting manufactured goods to North America.

2.) new shoes were crafted allowing citizesn to have proper footwear making wlakign and running much more convieniet.

3.) The first most meaningful innovation was the steam engine that improved the performance of the maritime and railway modes at the end of the 18th century. The bulk of a steam engine made it impractical to be applied to road transportation. ... For rail, diesel locomotives replaced steam engines.

Sources:

1.)https://quizlet.com/219457027/trade-history-unit-1-flash-cards/

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3.)https://transportgeography.org/?page_id=1599

the answer is b.

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