Matching Pairs Standard 7-1 VocabularyOnline version Vocabulary for standard 7-1 by Amy Murray 1 Mercantilism 2 Columbian Exchange 3 Caravel 4 Joint Stock Company 5 Mariner's Magnetic Compass 6 Plantation Colony 7 Settler Colony 8 Colony 9 Triangular Trade 10 Astrolabe 11 Middle Passage 12 Trading Post Colony 13 Capitalism 14 Commercial Revolution 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 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. Measures the altitude of the sun and stars to calculate latitude. the sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies. an instrument containing a magnetized pointer that shows the direction of magnetic north and bearings from it. a company whose stock is owned jointly by the shareholders. a period of European economic expansion, colonialism, and mercantilism which lasted from approximately the late 13th century until the early 18th century. a form of colony where foreign people move into a region and make it their new home. An economic theory in which a country exports more than it imports, thereby building wealth. A country or region under the control of another country. A small, fast Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship of the 15th–17th centuries. A place or establishment where the trading of goods took place. 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.