alleryWhat do historians call large-scale production for world markets before factories?
AProto-industrialisation
BGuild-based manufacturing
CFactory mass production
DRoyal monopoly trade
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Proto-industrialisation
Historians use this term for the early phase in which merchants organised goods made in households for distant markets.
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