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