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