Multiple Choice Question

What development MOST contributed to a rapid rise in the number, and effectiveness, of political parties in Europe and the Americas in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries?

A.
the creation of vast wealth through the mercantile economic system

B.
long periods of war between the most powerful European nations

C.
revolutions led to more democratic forms of government

D.
new technologies enabled Europeans to colonize other regions

B. long periods of war between the most powerful European nations