Triangle Trade / Mercantilism

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

Combining raw materials and processed goods into finished products

• manufacturing

• triangle trade

• intolerant

• charter

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

Who conquered the Aztec empire?

• Hernando Cortez
• Francisco Pizarrro
• Ferdinand Magellan
• Vasco Nunez de Balboa

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 system in which the king tried to increase his nation's wealth by having colonies only trade with the mother country.

• triangular trade

• cash crop

• joint stock company

• mercantilsim

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

• mercantilism
• conversion
• colony
• city

Goods sold to other countries

• export

• import

• mercantilism

• triangle trade

Goods brought in from other countries

• export

• import

• mercantilism

• triangle trade