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