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16 Cards in this Set
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Capitalism
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economic system in which the means of production are privatly owned and operated for profit
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Quetzalcoatl
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an Aztec god represented as a plumed serpent
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Francisco Pizarro
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Spanish explorer and conqueror of the Inca Empire of Peru. founded the city of lima
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Incas
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people from the andes, highlands of peru, who built roads.
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Atahulapa
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Last independent Incan emperor. He was captured by the Spaniards for going against Pizarro.
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Francis I
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King of France (1515-1547) who waged four wars against Holy Roman Emperor Charles V from 1521 to 1544. A patron of the arts, he reigned during the Renaissance in France
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Entrepreneur
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person who assumes financial risks in the hopes of making a profit
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Joint Stock Company
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private trading company in which shares are sold to investors to finance buisness
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Mercantilism
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policy by which a nation sought to export more than it imported in order to build its supply of gold and silver
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Tariff
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tax on imported goods
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Middle Passage
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in the slave trade, that part of the Atlantic Ocean between Africa and the West Indies
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Francis Drake
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English naval hero and explorer who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the world and was vice admiral of the fleet that destroyed the Spanish Armada
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Elizabeth I
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Queen of England and Ireland who reestablished Protestantism in England.
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Samuel de Champlain
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french explorer established a settlement (1608) on the site of present-day Quebec.
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Louis XIV
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king of france who waged the War of the Spanish Succession
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Alfonso I (Nzinga Mbemba)
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King of Portugal (1139-1185) who won Portuguese independence from Castile (1139) and established a monarchy.
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