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Economics is

• someone who sells something

• a type of transportation

• How an area or region makes money

• a person who pays someone to do something for them

A patron is

• a person who pays someone to do something for them

• a person who sells items

• the way a region makes their money

• A place in the Aztec Empire

A merchant is

• someone who pays someone to do something for them

• a place where people live

• how money is made in a certain region

• a person who sells things to another.

Which empire had control of the salt trade in Africa?

• Aztec

• Iroquois

• Songhai

• Ottoman

Who was responsible for blocking trade with Europe?

• Ottoman Empire

• SongHai

• Aztec Empre

• Inca Empire

Which countries had the largest economies in the 1400s?

• China and India

• USA and France

• Australia and Canada

• Africa and Spain

What is one reason men did NOT explore?

• Gold

• God

• Glory

• for the fun of it

Who was the first European explorer to see, and later die, on the banks of the Mississippi River?

• Christopher Columbus

• Henry Hudson

• Hernando DeSoto

• Juan Ponce De Leon

What effect did European exploration have?

• They learned of beauty and riches in North America.

• They stopped trade with Africa.

• Asians stopped exploring.

• Native Americans Fled North America.

Ferdinand and Isabella were the king and queen of which country?

• Italy

• Portugal

• England

• Spain