Matching Pairs Standard 7-1 VocabularyOnline version Vocabulary for standard 7-1 by Amy Murray 1 Middle Passage 2 Astrolabe 3 Trading Post Colony 4 Columbian Exchange 5 Settler Colony 6 Caravel 7 Plantation Colony 8 Triangular Trade 9 Commercial Revolution 10 Colony 11 Capitalism 12 Mercantilism 13 Joint Stock Company 14 Mariner's Magnetic Compass An economic theory in which a country exports more than it imports, thereby building wealth. refers to the trade in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that involved shipping goods from Britain to West Africa to be exchanged for slaves, these slaves being shipped to the West Indies and exchanged for sugar, rum, and other commodities, which were in turn shipped back to Britain. A country or region under the control of another country. a company whose stock is owned jointly by the shareholders. refers to a period of cultural and biological exchanges between the New and Old Worlds. Exchanges of plants, animals, diseases and technology transformed European and Native American ways of life. the sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies. An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit. Measures the altitude of the sun and stars to calculate latitude. a form of colony where foreign people move into a region and make it their new home. an instrument containing a magnetized pointer that shows the direction of magnetic north and bearings from it. a usually large farm or estate, especially in a tropical or semitropical country, on which cotton, tobacco, coffee, sugar cane, or the like is cultivated, usually by resident laborers. a period of European economic expansion, colonialism, and mercantilism which lasted from approximately the late 13th century until the early 18th century. A place or establishment where the trading of goods took place. A small, fast Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship of the 15th–17th centuries.