With new ideas and new incentives, the European overseers began to push
more efficient production practices. Due to these demands, some colonies
experienced major hardships much like slavery.
O a. "Some of these incentives benefited the colonized peoples, such as
the cheap consumer goods that could be purchased with cash
earned producing marketable crops or laboring on European
plantations."
O b. "...villagers were flogged and killed if they failed to meet production
quotas, and women and children were held hostage to ensure that
their menfolk would deliver the products demanded on time."
O c. "Benefiting from Europe's technological advances, mining sectors
grew dramatically in most of the colonies."