Explain why the capitalist system developed in Europe.

It is different to the system in the Middle Ages, usually called feudalism, where control of land and the workers who were bonded to that land was the key to making wealth. So the transatlantic slave trade and plantation wealth were the major causes of the growth of capitalism in Europe

t is different to the system in the Middle Ages, usually called feudalism, where control of land and the workers who were bonded to that land was the key to making wealth.