Which development during the late middle ages laid the foundation for capitalism in europe

The answer is: A merchant system.

Explanation:

The history of capitalism is attributed a spontaneous or natural origin within the modern age.

This natural impulse towards trade and exchange was accentuated and encouraged by the Crusades that were organized in Western Europe from the eleventh to the thirteenth centuries.

The economic order resulting from these events was a system in which commercial or commercial matters predominated, that is, whose main objective was to exchange goods and not to produce them.

The answer is: A merchant system.