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What is the role of international commerce during the Age of Exploration?
What is the role of international commerce during the Age of Exploration?
The role of international commerce during the Age of Exploration was to facilitate buying and selling, trading, and other economic transactions between different regions and countries.
What did Europeans perceive Asia as?
What did Europeans perceive Asia as?
Europeans perceived Asia as a sort of paradise.
What were some of the exotic things Europeans wanted from Asia?
What were some of the exotic things Europeans wanted from Asia?
Some of the exotic things Europeans wanted from Asia were silk, spices, food, opium, and foreign animals.
What were the problems with the Silk Road?
What were the problems with the Silk Road?
What was the primary factor that motivated Christopher Columbus?
What was the primary factor that motivated Christopher Columbus?
What was the economic philosophy that dominated during the Age of Exploration?
What was the economic philosophy that dominated during the Age of Exploration?
What was the main goal of mercantilism?
What was the main goal of mercantilism?
What role did colonies play in the mercantilist system?
What role did colonies play in the mercantilist system?
What was the purpose of securing sugar-rich islands in the Caribbean?
What was the purpose of securing sugar-rich islands in the Caribbean?
What was the triangular slave trade?
What was the triangular slave trade?
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