section 2
Terms
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- Hapsburgs
- ruling family from spain
- Edict of Nantes
- 75
- triangle of trade
- Europe-Africa-America
- Ponce de Leon
- found florida fountain of youth
- absolutism
- one person is the only ruler
- joint-stock company
- trading venture that sold shares to divide costs and profits
- balance of trade
- difference in value between what a nation imports and what it exports over a period of time
- Quebec
- first permanent french settlement in North America
- cartographer
- makes maps
- conquistador
- spanish conquerors
- Cape of Good Hope
- southern tip of Africa
- Jamestown
- first English settlement in North America
- Magellan
- sailed around the world
- labor-intensive farming
- agriculture that relies on human labor, not animals or machine
- mercantilism
- economic policy of European nations in the 1600s, equating wealth and power
- circumnavigate
- sail around the world
- Prince Henry
- bought together the best sailing minds in the world
- West Indies
- Cuba, Bahamas, Haiti, San to Domingo
- Staight of Magellan
- southern tip of South America
- 30 years war
- German war fought between Catholics and protestant
- Cortes
- fought the Aztecs