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| Conquistador | A spanish conqueror of thr Americas. |
| Colony | A settlement of people living in a new territory, linked with the parent country by trade and direct government control. |
| Mercantilism | A set of principles that dominated economic thought in the seventeenth century; it held that the prosperity of a nation depended on a large supply of gold and silver. |
| Balance of trade | The difference in value between what a nation imports and what it exports over time. |
| Plantation | A large agricultural estate |
| triangular trade | A pattern of trade that connected Europe, Africa and Asia, and the American continents; typically, manufactured goods from Europe were sent to Africa, where they exchanged for slaves, who were sent to the Americas, where they were exchanged for raw materials that were then sent to Europe. |
| Middle Passage | The journey of slaves from Africa to the Americas, so called because it was the middle portion of the triangular trade route. |
| Mainland states | Part of a continent, as distinguished from peninsulas or offshore islands. |
| Bureaucracy | An administrative organization that relies on nonelective officals and regular procedures. |
