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export
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to sell to other countries
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mercantilism
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the idea that a country gains power by building a supply of gold and silver
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import
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to buy from other countries
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colony
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a settlement of people living in a new territory controlled by the homeland
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commerce
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the buying and selling of goods in large amounts over long distances
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Ptolemy and al-Idrisi
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Europeans studied their works to learn geography of the known world
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Sugar
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Started the slave trade in the Americas
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