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