unit 5 vocabulary

2. Exchange The Columbian Exchange is the widespread transfer of plants, animals, food, culture, human populations, technology, and ideas
6. East India Company The Dutch East India Company was a multinational trading company established in 1602 by the Dutch Republic.
7. Balance of Trade A favorable balance of trade is a situation in which a country exports more goods and services than it imports, leading to an increase in the value of its currency.
9. of Tordesillas The Treaty of Tordesillas was a diplomatic agreement signed in 1494 between Spain and Portugal that divided the newly discovered lands outside of Europe between the two countries.
11. Mercantilism is an economic theory which states that a nation should maximize its exports and minimize its imports in order to accumulate wealth.

1. Shogunate The Tokugawa Shogunate was a feudal military government in Japan that lasted from 1603 to 1868. It was led by the shogun, a hereditary military dictator.
2. Slavery a system of slavery in which people are treated as property to be bought, sold, and traded.
3. Passage was the forced journey of enslaved African people across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas, between the 16th and 19th centuries.
4. a Spanish term referring to a labor system in which people were treated like property and forced to work for a master in exchange for protection.
5. a person who makes maps.
8. East India Company The British East India Company was a major trading company founded in 1600 by a royal charter of Queen Elizabeth I.
10. He a Chinese mariner and explorer who led seven voyages of exploration in the early 1400s during the Ming Dynasty.