1. New industries like mining and smelting had sprung up and these enterprises were stimulated by technical advances.
2. There was also change-in business organisation.
3. Regulated companies came to be formed.
4. The regulated company was an association of merchants for a common venture.
5. A leading example of this type was an English company known as the Merchant Adventurers established for the purpose of trade with the Netherlands and Germany.

1. The Commercial Revolution were the rise of the middle class to economic power.
2. The middle class ranks included merchants, bankers, ship owners, principal investors and industrial entrepreneurs.
3. Their rise to power was the result of increasing wealth and their support to the king against the feudal aristocracy.

1. The most negative result of the Commercial Revolution was the revival of slavery.
2. Slavery had virtually disappeared from European society by the end of the first millennium.
3. But the development of mining and plantation farming in the Spanish, Portuguese and English colonies led to the recruitment of slaves as unskilled labourers.
4. The attempt to enslave native Americans ended in failure, as they proved too tough to manage.

1. Although the Aztecs had superior numbers, with firearms and steel blades at his disposal, just one Spaniard could annihilate dozens or even hundreds of opponents:
2. ''On a sudden, they speared and thrust people into shreds", wrote one indigenous chronicler, a witness to the terrifying impact of European arms.
3. "Others were beheaded in one swipe Others tried to run in vain from the butchery, their innards falling from them and entangling their very feet".
4. A smallpox epidemic-outbreak weakened the Aztec while giving Cortes time to regroup, resume fighting and finally emerge victorious.

1. The astronomical evidence for the heliocentric theory was furnished by the great of astronomer Galileo Galilei (1564-1642).
2. With a telescope, he discovered the satellites of Jupiter, the rings of Saturn and the spots on the sun.
3. He was made the professor of Medicine and Maths by the Medici family at the University of Padua (University of Republic of Venice).
4. He made efforts to make science stay detached from religion.
5. He accepted the views of Copernicus who propounded the heliocentric theory.