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Definition:
The Difference in value between a country's imports and exports.

Economic:
Is the difference between the value of a country's imports and exports for a given period.

Influence on global 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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Definition:
Belief of profitable trading; commercialism.

Economic:
Economic theory and practice common in Europe from the 16th to the 18th century that promoted governmental regulation of a nation's economy for the purpose of augmenting state power at the expense of rival national powers

Influence on Global Trade:
Led to the adoption of enormous trade restrictions, though, which stunted the growth and freedom of colonial business. The expansion of the slave trade: Trade became triangulated between the British Empire, its colonies and foreign markets.

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Definition:
A company whose stock is owned jointly by the shareholders.

Economic:
Is a business entity in which shares of the company's stock can be bought and sold by shareholders.

Influence on Global Trade:
Was sold to high net-worth investors who provided capital and had limited risk. 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.

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Definition:
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.

Economic:
All in all, the Columbian Exchange of foodstuffs vastly increased the health and wealth of Europeans and their colonists in the Americas.

Influence on Global Trade: