Memory Vocab - Exploration (Hard)Version en ligne Vocab - Exploration par Todd Gainey An expensive and high-demand crop that cannot be grown in Europe. Astrolabe 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. Cash Crop Mother Country Mercantilism Compass Slave A European country that explored the New World. Trading Post Colony 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 person who is forced to work for someone else without pay or promise of freedom. A device with a needle that always points North. Indentured Servant Plantation Colony Caravel Settler Colony Lands where cash crops were grown. An economic system that requires more exports than imports. A person who sells his labor (usually for about 7 years) in exchange for passage to the New World.