"The development of a plantation economy, beginning in the sixteenth century, transformed Africa, America, Europe, and Asia, too. It displaced the old silk trade and shifted the increasingly dynamic
center of the world economy westward to the Atlantic...
"The Atlantic economy supplied eager European consumers with mildly addictive ... crops like tobacco and coffee, along with sugar... The Atlantic plantation system transformed these three
[products) into items of general consumption. Investors prospered, and capital for further economic development accumulated in the home country). The governments found funding and motive
to develop sea power. The Americas had lucrative export crops and developed a society based on a system of labor exploitation of Africans, and Africa suffered the transport of eleven million of its
people to the New World:
Thomas Bender, historian, A Nation Among Nations: America's Place in World History, 2006
The second paragraph of the excerpt makes which of the following claims about the introduction to Europe of new crops from the Americas?
A They remained relatively unpopular.
They required little labor to produce.
С
They stimulated economies across Europe,
They replaced traditional agricultural products.

As a result of increased demand for American agricultural produce from Europeans, investors prospered and Governments were able to fund a development in sea power.

Going from an economic perspective all the above will lead to economies prospering. Forgive me for going a bit technical but here is how it works.

The Economy's performance can be measured by something called the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) which can be divided into 4 components being Consumption, Investment and Government spending.

Consumption spending is when people buy more goods and services which the Europeans were doing by buying more American goods.

Investment is putting money up for a venture so that you may make a return which again Europeans were doing in the Americas and they were gaining returns.

And Government spending. When this happens, the Government will create new jobs and buy things in the economy thus spreading money in the economy which is what European Governments did by spending on sea power.

All the above will lead to an increase in GDP which translates to a growing economy which shows that economies across Europe were stimulated.