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Prince Henry
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Portuguese; set up schools for mathematicians, cartographers, geographers, ship captains and pilots. "the navigator"
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Vasco da Gama
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1498 rounded cape of good hope and sailed to India. won over trade against the Arabs
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Conquistadores
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Spanish "conquerors" (cortes and pizzaro)
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Magellan
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his crew Circumnaigated the globe
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ecomienda
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form of serfdom Spanish used in the new world against the natives
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1494 Treaty of Tordesillas
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split world in half between spain and portugal
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Commercial Revolution
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acceleration in a global trade involving new goods +techniques
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Joint-stock companies
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pool financial resources + share risk (Dutch + British East India Companies)
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mercantilism
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An economic doctrine that flourished in Europe from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Mercantilists held that a nation's wealth consisted primarily in the amount of gold and silver in its treasury. Accordingly, mercantilist governments imposed extensive restrictions on their economies to ensure a surplus of exports over imports.
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Philip II
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Catholic monarch of Spain. In 1588 he launched the Spanish Armada in an unsuccessful attempt to invade England while fighting for control of the netherlands
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