1.
European expansion in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries was promoted by
Answer:
merchants who wished to increase their profits by eliminating by the Muslim and
Venetian
middlemen
2.
Columbus's discovery made Spain a wealthy and powerful nation, because
Answer:
those who following him, like Cortés, found great quantities of precious metals
3.
Hidalgos were
Answer:
lesser gentry who believed that holy war was a just means of acquiring wealth and
power
4.
Convertible husbandry
Answer: