Triangle Trade / Mercantilism

The expeditions of Conquistadors Hernan Cortes and Francisco Pizarro resulted in the

• destroyed the Aztecs and Incas
• captured Brazil
• colonized N/A
• exploration of the Indies

Combining raw materials and processed goods into finished products

• manufacturing

• triangle trade

• intolerant

• charter

Land the mother country takes in a distant place and uses to make money for itself is a _____________. 

• mercantilism
• conversion
• colony
• city

Who was the explorer that FIRST sailed around Africa in order to make it to Asia by water?

• Francisco Pizarro
• Christopher Columbus
• Henry Hudson
• Vasco de Gama

A person who makes money by selling goods.

• commerce

• merchant

• charter

• joint stock company

Raw materials are used to make the things we make ourselves or buy in stores. Those things are:___________.

• raw materials

• manufactured goods

• natural resources

• from the earth

3 sided trade route between the 13 Colonies, the West Indies, and Africa; included the slave trade

• mercantilism

• charter

• triangular trade

• cash crop

_____ went to his grave believing he had discovered a westward passage to Asia, when in fact he had actually discovered the Americas.

• Amerigo Vespucci
• John Cabot
• Christopher Columbus
• Alfonso de Albuquerque

The impact of mercantilism was that

• The rate of slavery in the Americas went down

• Trade was limited in the Atlantic

• The Colony grew wealthy

• The Mother Country grew wealthy

What were early Portuguese explorers trying to find?

• a passage to India by land
• a way to the South Pole
• a new trade route to India by sea
• a new school in Portugal