Exploration
Colonization
Mercantilism
Mercantilism
Mercantilism
100
a magnetized needle to determine direction
What is compass
100
the middle part of the triangular trade
What is Middle Passage
100
a group of people who share a similar position in society
What is social class
100
the movement of goods, people, ideas, and even diseases across the Atlantic
What is Columbian Exchange
100
theory to explain how trading nations could earn wealth
What is mercantilism
200
distance in degrees north or south from the equator
What is latitude
200
antislavery movement that saw slavery as an evil that must be ended
What is abolition movement
200
a group made up of merchants and artisans
What is middle class
200
Gold and silver
What is bullion
200
sell to other countries
What is export
300
use the position of the sun and stars to determine latitude
What is astrolabe
300
large agricultural estates that produced cash crops
What is plantation
300
money to invest in business
What is capital
300
buy from other countries
What is import
300
difference between what a nation imports and exports
What is balance of trade
400
movement of people
What is migration
400
the capture and transport of Africans into bondage in the Americas
What is Atlantic Slave Trade
400
a system in which people, rather than governments, own property, make goods, and buy and sell them freely
What is capitalism
400
taxes
What is tariff
400
buying and selling of goods in large quantities over long distances
What is commerce
500
the body's ability to resist infection
What is immunity
500
trade of enslaved Africans sailed several routes which formed the three legs of a geographic triangle
What is triangular trade
500
the freedom of private businesses to compete for profits without government involvement
What is free enterprise
500
businessperson who risks money in hopes of earning a profit
What is entrepreneur
500
allowed individual entrepreneurs to buy stocks or shares in a company which meant merchants shared in both the profits and risks of trade
What is joint-stock company
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