Today in class, we played a game to help you grasp the concept of mercantilism. This was the guiding economic principle that all the European powers followed during the 1600's and 1700's. According to mercantilism, the way to become a powerful country was by stockpiling silver and gold and establishing colonies to generate raw materials and buy finished goods back from the "mother country."
We did not finish playing our game in class today, so we will spend tomorrow wrapping up the game and finding out what you learned/remember about mercantilism. See you tomorrow! Enjoy the break from homework, but remember, next week you will be retested on the original 13 colonies. Map and key on yesterday's blog post.
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