Commercial Revolution
Trading Post Colony
Mercantilism
Colony
Plantation Colony
Mariner's Magnetic Compass
Astrolabe
Triangular Trade
Columbian Exchange
Capitalism
Joint Stock Company
Caravel
Middle Passage
Settler Colony
A country or region under the control of another country.
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.
An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit.
A small, fast Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship of the 15th–17th centuries.
the sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies.
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.
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.
a company whose stock is owned jointly by the shareholders.
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.
An economic theory in which a country exports more than it imports, thereby building wealth.
A place or establishment where the trading of goods took place.
Measures the altitude of the sun and stars to calculate latitude.
