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vasco da gama discovered a route to india by sea; found lots of spices and made thousands in profit christopher columbus discovered the americas but thought he discovered another way to asia mercentilism set of principles that led to this thought- nations depend on bullion dutch First european settlers of the hudson river valley ibo community in Nigeria that had the most slaves sugarcane plantations why africans originally came to the Americas Moluccas known to the europeans as the spice islands southeast asia european influence was limited to the Malay peninsula and Indoesian archipelago buddhism dominant religion in the southeast asia mainland from 1500 to 1800 clove trade dutch took control of this trade on the spice islands gold coast portuguese explorers called the southern coast of west africa this treaty of toresillas 1494 established a line of demarcation between Portugal and spain John Cabot explored new england coastline of americas for england aggressive dutch traders made a single port in the sourthern coast of sumatra states of southeast asia could unite and drive europeans out balance of trade difference in value between imports and exports