Lands where cash crops were grown.
A settlement designed to claim land for the mother country.
Slave
Cash Crop
A device with a needle that always points North.
A device that uses the angles of the stars or sun to determine the user's distance from the equator.
Settler Colony
Mercantilism
Caravel
A place where goods from the New World could be bought or traded for. Usually built along major rivers.
Plantation Colony
A European country that explored the New World.
A smaller, light-weight ship with triangular sails that can "beat" the wind.
Indentured Servant
Trading Post Colony
An expensive and high-demand crop that cannot be grown in Europe.
Astrolabe
Mother Country
An economic system that requires more exports than imports.
Compass
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.
