2.1.4 European Colonialism

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a fifteenth-century Portuguese sailing ship
caravel
in the context of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a trading post with offices and warehouses
factory
a company in which numerous merchants pooled their money to fund a business venture like a trading voyage and shared both risk and profit
joint stock company

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