Memory Game Vocab - Exploration (Hard)Online version Vocab - Exploration by Todd Gainey A settlement designed to claim land for the mother country. A place where goods from the New World could be bought or traded for. Usually built along major rivers. Trading Post Colony Settler Colony Cash Crop Indentured Servant Lands where cash crops were grown. A smaller, light-weight ship with triangular sails that can "beat" the wind. An expensive and high-demand crop that cannot be grown in Europe. Mother Country Compass Astrolabe Slave Plantation Colony An economic system that requires more exports than imports. Mercantilism A person who is forced to work for someone else without pay or promise of freedom. A person who sells his labor (usually for about 7 years) in exchange for passage to the New World. A device with a needle that always points North. A European country that explored the New World. Caravel A device that uses the angles of the stars or sun to determine the user's distance from the equator.
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