1.4 Columbian Exchange, Spanish Exploration, Conquest

horses, diseases, smallpox, measles, capitalism, joint-stock company

Columbian exchange

• Europeans got new plants and foods (ex. beans, corn, potatoes, tomatoes, tobacco) and syphilis

• People in the Americas got animals like horses, new technology, and diseases (ex. smallpox and measles) → rapid native population decline

capitalism

economic system in which control of capital (money and machinery) became more important than control of land, replaced feudalism with growing access to new resources

joint-stock company

a business owned by a large number of investors, reducing individual risk and promoting investment (economic growth)

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