In what way was the emerging world economy between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries the beginning of the core-periphery world-system?
A. Until colonization occurred, regions of exploitation had no urban development; gateway cities were built to serve the colonizers.
B. Leading countries of the world-system then remain the leading countries of the world-system today.
C. Global networks first formed at that time from regional specializations and trading patterns.
D. Widespread industrialization at the core demanded more and more raw materials from colonies, locking their economies into a more or less permanent sector of primary activities.
E. Colonizing countries structured their overseas colonies to expand trading networks into the world's peripheral regions, transforming the new market-based economy.