unit 5

1. /the economic theory that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances, which a government should encourage by means of protectionism.
3. Dias / His voyage showed the Atlantic and the Indian oceans flowed into eachother
4. Balance of Trade /occurs when a country exports more goods than it imports
5. East India Company / granting it a 24-year monopoly on trade and colonization that included the American coast between Newfoundland and the Straits of Magellan.
10. Da Gama /the first to sail from Europe to India by rounding Africa's Cape of Good Hope.
12. /an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit.
13. / following a Marxist-Leninist military coup
14. Henry / Sponsored explorations that accomplished much for Portugal
15. /is a landlocked country in West Africa
17. of Tordesillas / Divided the New World into SPanish and Portugues Spheres of influence
19. He /Chinese Admiral in the Indian Ocean
20. / a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.
22. Exchange /swap of Old and New World germs, animals, plants, peoples, and cultures
23. /a conqueror, especially one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.

1. / a man of mixed race, especially one having Spanish and indigenous descent.
2. Cortes / his role in the destruction of the Aztec Empire in 1521.
6. /a member of a people of northern Nigeria and adjacent regions.
7. /was a Spanish military general who led the Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic
8. /officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa
9. /the works of Sunni Ali and Muhammad I Askia
11. / was not merely a conqueror who was able to rule over a large empire with different tribes and languages, but also developed Mali's mechanisms Mansa Musa /was the king of the ancient empire of Mali in West Africa.
12. Columbus / his 1492 'discovery' of the 'new world' of the Americas on board his ship Santa Maria.
16. Company /a company whose stock is owned jointly by the shareholders.
18. /a grant by the Spanish Crown to a colonist in America conferring the right to demand tribute and forced labor from the Indian inhabitants of an area.
21. /eople are a West African ethnic group who mainly inhabit parts of Nigeria, Benin, and Togo.