1.
European expansion in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries was promoted by
Answer:
merchants who wished to increase their profits by eliminating by the Muslim and
Venetian middlemen
2.
Columbus's discovery made Spain a wealthy and powerful nation, because
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those who following him, like Cortés, found great quantities of precious metals
3.
Hidalgos were
Answer:
lesser gentry who believed that holy war was a just means of acquiring wealth and
power
4.
Convertible husbandry
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, increased productivity, which was essential to later industrialization
5.
Fifteenth-and sixteenth-century innovations in business methods included all of the
following EXCEPT
Answer:
the development of international stock exchanges
6.
Commercial development in Spain was inhibited by
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the Spanish value system that considered commerce and industry unworthy
pursuits
7.
The development of capitalism was encouraged by
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Spanish treasure, which, when exported to other countries, provided capital for
investment
8.
The traditional relationship between elite and fold cultures changed in the sixteenth
century when
Answer: