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14 Cards in this Set
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Capital |
money or property that is used to earn more money |
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Joint-Stock Company |
businesses formed by a group of people who jointly make an investment and share in the profits and losses |
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Monopoly |
sole economic control of a business or product |
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Caravel |
instruments, such as the compass |
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Black Death |
which swept through Europe from about 1348 to 1350 |
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Commercial Revolution |
a period of great change in the European |
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Renaissance |
a rebirth of the arts and learning of acient Greece and rome |
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Convert |
the taino to Christianity by changing their religious beliefs |
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Queen Isabella |
helped Christopher Columbus |
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Line of Demarcation |
boundary established by pope Alexander VI 1493 |
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Strait |
a narrow, winding sea passage - between the coastal cliffs |
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Circumnavgate |
sail completely around, the world |
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Northwest Passage |
north america would allow ship to sail from the Atlantic to the pacific |
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Samuel de Chapmplain |
began exploring North America |
