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Def- the difference in value between a country's imports and exports.
influences- 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
Economic- The balance of trade is the difference between the value of a country's imports and exports for a given period. The balance of trade is the largest component of a country's balance of payments. ... The balance of trade is also referred to as the trade balance or the international trade balance.
Social and Political - also known as trade balance is the total sum of a nation's exports minus the value of its imports. ... A country is said to have a trade imbalance or deficit if its imports are greater than its exports. Imports refer to goods and services a country's people buy from foreign company

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Def- belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.
influence- Mercantilism did, however, lead to the adoption of enormous trade restrictions, which stunted the growth and freedom of colonial business. I
Economic- mercantilism. Mercantilism, also called "commercialism,” 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 It is often considered an outdated system.
Social & Political - They were really good and they came in handy a lot because it tends to be a lot easier with this type. Which they helped a lot of small companies and that a great work.
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Def- a company whose stock is owned jointly by the shareholders.

Influence- The risk was small, and the returns were fairly quick. Granted a charter by King James I in 1606, the Virginia Company was a joint-stock company created to establish settlements in the New World. This is a seal of the Virginia Company, which established the first English settlement in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607.
Economic- A joint-stock company is a business entity in which shares of the company's stockcan can be bought and sold by shareholders. Each shareholder owns company stock in proportion, evidenced by their shares (certificates of ownership). ... Therefore, joint-stock companies are commonly known as corporations or limited companies.
Social & Political- Was very good, and help money go up higher, you run the risk of joining it, if it fails then it fails, but sometimes it can be successful.
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Def-  also known as the Columbian interchange, named for Christopher Columbus, 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.
Influence- Disease was just as much a part of the Columbian Exchange as
goods and food. The diseases Europeans brought with them, which included
smallpox and measles, led to the deaths of millions of Native Americans.
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Economic-At the same time, the colonies the Europeans established in the New World soon became efficient producers of not only New World crops, but Old World transplants as well. ... All in all, the Columbian Exchange of foodstuffs vastly increased the health and wealth of Europeans and their colonists in the Americas.
Social & Political-he Columbian Exchange greatly 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.