Age of Exploration Vocab Review

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Disease causing high fever and often death

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Smallpox

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Large estate or farm using enslaved or hired workers for crops

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Plantation

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Economic theory relying on more exports than imports to boost a nation's gold and silver supply.

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Mercantilism

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Held against will for something

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Hostage

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One who organizes, funds, or risks starting a business

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Entrepreneur

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Making goods in workers' homes

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Cottage Industry

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Spanish soldiers who conquered lands

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Conquistadors

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Exchange of goods; business

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Commerce

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To go completely around something, like the world

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Circumnavigate

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Crops grown in large amounts for profit

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Cash Crops