Vocabulary Match
This term means using scientific knowledge to create practical tools.
What is technology?
This economic system involves investing money in businesses to earn profit.
What is capitalism?
This economic policy claims a nation's power comes from its gold and silver.
What is mercantilism?
This term names the trade of goods, people, ideas, and diseases between hemispheres.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
These Spanish soldiers conquered lands in the Americas.
What are conquistadors?
This word means to sail completely around the world.
What is circumnavigate?
This is another name for capitalism, where producers compete to sell goods and services.
What is a market economy?
This term names the supply of gold and silver a nation possessed.
What is bullion?
Europeans brought this large animal, used for transportation and war, to the Americas.
What is the horse?
This navigational tool shows direction and helped sailors explore the seas.
What is a compass?
These religious military expeditions aimed to regain the Holy Land.
What are the Crusades?
This wealthy Italian family were famous bankers who loaned money to merchants.
Who are the Medici?
Under mercantilism, countries tried to export more than they did this.
What is import?
This American crop, along with corn, helped increase populations in Europe.
What is the potato?
Roughly this many million Africans were forced into slavery in the Americas.
What is 10–12 million?
This term describes a settlement controlled by a home country.
What is a colony?
This type of company lets a group of investors buy shares and share profits and risks.
What is a joint-stock company?
Colonies sent these unfinished materials, like wood, cotton, and silver, back to Europe.
What are raw materials?
Millions of these people died from European diseases like smallpox.
Who are Native Americans?
Native Americans were first enslaved, but many died from disease and this
What is harsh labor?
This word describes the rebirth of art, culture, and learning in Europe.
What is the Renaissance?
Merchants borrowed money from these institutions to pay for trading voyages.
What are banks or wealthy families/governments ?
In return, colonies bought these items, like clothing and tools, from Europe.
What are finished goods?
Name a crop native to the Americas that traveled to Europe.
What is a potato, tomato, corn, bean, or tobacco plant?
Enslaved Africans became an essential part of this in the colonies.
What is the colonial economy (plantation system)?