PATH WEEK 1
An Italian explorer and navigator who completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean, opening the way for European exploration and colonization of the Americas.
Christopher Columbus
a central topic
Main idea/theme
a historical term indicating trade among three ports or regions. Triangular trade usually evolves when a region has export commodities that are not required in the region from which its major imports come.
Triangular Trade
the basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (e.g. buildings, roads, power supplies) needed for the operation of a society or enterprise.
infrastructure
having or showing skill in achieving one's ends by deceit or evasion
cunning
An indigenous people of the Caribbean. At the time of European contact in the late fifteenth century, they were the principal inhabitants of most of Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, The Bahamas and the northern Lesser Antilles.
The Taínos
a poor agricultural country that is seeking to become more advanced economically and socially.
Developing country
an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America. The agreement came into force on January 1, 1994, and superseded the 1988 Canada–United States Free Trade Agreement between the United States and Canada.
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
effective or productive in relation to its cost.
cost-effective
totally bewilder or perplex.
baffled
trans-Atlantic slave trade
the degree of wealth and material comfort available to a person or community.
Standard of Living
a person who purchases goods and services for personal use.
Consumers
to an individual, is the benefit received from paying less for a good than the maximum amount that the person is willing to pay for it.
net benefit
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protist
Who Was uniting the Spanish kingdoms into the nation of Spain, supporting the Spanish Inquisition (1478–1834), sponsoring Christopher Columbus's voyages of exploration across the Atlantic Ocean, and commencing Spain's entry into the modern period of imperial expansion.
King Ferdinand
the process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale.
Globalization
There are a wide variety of types of BLANK, most notably measured using the distribution of income and the distribution of wealth. Besides economic inequality between countries or states, there are important types of economic inequality between different groups of people.
Income inequality
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positive return,
make (something) physically stronger or more solid.
consolidate
known historically as Joanna the Mad, was Queen of Castile from 1504, and of Aragon from 1516. Modern Spain evolved from the union of these two crowns. Joanna was married by arrangement to Philip the Handsome, Archduke of the House of Habsburg, on 20 October 1496.
Queen Juana
refers to the land routes connecting East Asia and Southeast Asia with South Asia, Persia, the Arabian Peninsula, East Africa and Southern Europe. The Silk Road derives its name from the lucrative trade in silk carried out along its length, beginning in the Han dynasty in China (207 BCE–220 CE).
The Silk Road
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Thesis statement
make (someone or something) late or slow.
delay
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