Memory Vocab - Exploration (Hard)Version en ligne Vocab - Exploration par Todd Gainey Trading Post Colony A device with a needle that always points North. Plantation Colony Cash Crop Lands where cash crops were grown. A smaller, light-weight ship with triangular sails that can "beat" the wind. A device that uses the angles of the stars or sun to determine the user's distance from the equator. Indentured Servant A settlement designed to claim land for the mother country. Settler Colony Compass Slave An economic system that requires more exports than imports. Mercantilism A place where goods from the New World could be bought or traded for. Usually built along major rivers. Caravel A person who sells his labor (usually for about 7 years) in exchange for passage to the New World. A European country that explored the New World. An expensive and high-demand crop that cannot be grown in Europe. A person who is forced to work for someone else without pay or promise of freedom. Astrolabe Mother Country