Question

Please select the word from the list that best fits the definition

Match each item with the correct statement.
allowed navigators to determine their ship's position by charting the position of the stars
charter, plantations, strait, circumnavigate, pueblos, caravel, presidios, sea dogs, colombian exchange, northwest passage, conquistadores, borderlands, monopoly, astrolabe, line of demarcation.

Answer 1

Conquistadors

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

Mercantilism.

Step-by-step explanation:

Mercantilism is a set of ideas, a system which was quite popular in Europe in the 17th and 18th century.

Some of its basic principles are:

- increasing export while decreasing import

- which should enable accumulation of capital in the form of gold and silver

- strong agriculture that would decrease the need for import

- using colonies for gaining cheap resources and for selling the final products.

Many of late-18th century philosophers and economists criticized mercantilism pointing out its flaws and limits, so today it is considered an outdated system.