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is the difference between the value of a country's imports and exports for a given period.
A country's balance of trade is defined by its net exports (exports minus imports) and is thus influenced by all the factors that affect international trade. ... A nation has a trade surplus if its exports are greater than its imports; if imports are greater than exports, the nation has a trade deficit.

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is a system in which a country attempts to amass wealth through trade with other countries, exporting more than it imports and increasing stores of gold and precious metals. It is often considered an outdated system.
Mercantilist theorists believed that the amount of wealth in the world was static

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a joint-stock company created to establish settlements in the New World In a joint-stock venture, stock was sold to high net-worth investors who provided capital and had limited risk.

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was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, and ideas between the Americas, West Africa, and the Old World in the 15th and 16th centuries
affected almost every society on earth, bringing destructive diseases that depopulated many cultures, and also circulating a wide variety of new crops and livestock that, in the long term, increased rather than diminished the world human population.