Age of discovery

Question 1

Conquistador

Answer 1

a conqueror, especially one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.
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Question 2

Colony

Answer 2

a conqueror, especially one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.
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Question 3

Mercantilism

Answer 3

belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.

Question 4

Balance of trade

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belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.

Question 5

The compass

Answer 5

A compass is an instrument used for navigation and orientation that shows direction relative to the geographic “cardinal directions”, or “points”. Usually, a diagram called a compass rose, shows the directions north, south, east, and west on the compass face as abbreviated initials.

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Joint stock company

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a company whose stock is owned jointly by the shareholders.

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Triangular trade

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a multilateral system of trading in which a country pays for its imports from one country by its exports to another.

Question 8

Colombian trade

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The Columbian Exchange was the widespread transfer of animals, plants, culture, human populations, technology, and ideas between the Americas and the Old World in the 15th and 16th centuries,

Question 9

Middle passage

Answer 9

The Middle Passage was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of Africans were shipped to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade.