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chapter 6
Question | Answer |
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conquistador | a Spanish conqueror of the Americans. |
colony | a settlement of people living in a new territory, linked with the parent try trade and direct government control. |
mercantilism | a set of principles that dominated economic thought in the seventeenth century; it held that the prosperity of a nation depended on a large supply of gold and silver. |
balance of trade | the difference in value between what a nation imports and what it exports over time. |
Portugal | |
Africa | |
Melaka | |
Cuba | |
Vasco da Gama | went around the cape and cut across the Indian Ocean to the cost of India. |
Christopher Columbus | |
John Cabot | |
Amerigo Vespucci | |
Francisco Pizarro | |
Ferdinand Magellan |