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chapter 6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |