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