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Encomienda |
A grant of land made by Spain to a settler in the Americas, including the right to use Native Americans as laborers on it |
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Treaty of Tordesillas |
A 1419 agreement between Portugal and Spain declaring that newly discovered lands to the west of an imaginary line in the Atlantic Ocean would belong to Spain and newly discovered lands to the east of the line would belong to Portugal. |
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Joint-stock companies |
A business in which investors pool their wealth for a common purpose, then share the profits. |
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Middle Passage |
The voyage that brought captured Africans to the West Indies and later to North and South America, to be sold as slaves- so called because it was considered the middle leg of the triangular trade. |
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Capitalism |
An economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit. |
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Jamestown |
The first colony in North America by the British, founded by King James and settled in 1607 on the coast of Virginia. |
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Daimyo |
A Japanese feudal lord who commanded private army of samurai. |
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Vasco Da Gama |
A Portugese explorer who explored the east African coast and got to Calicut, giving Portugal a direct sea route to India and 60 times the cost of the voyage |
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Cardinal Richelieu |
Louis XIII's minister (ruled for him), increased power in the monarchy by moving against the Huguenots and weakening the nobles' power. Involved France in the 30 years' war. |
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Boyars |
A landowning nobles of Russia. |
