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Colonial Expansion
7-1.1 - 7-1.3
Term | Definition |
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circumnavigate | Circle the globe/world |
conquistador | Spanish soldiers who conquered people in the New World |
compass | Navigational tool that uses a magnetized needle to determine direction. |
astrolabe | Navigational tool that allowed sailors to use the position of the sun and stars to determine latitude. |
rudder | A flat, moveable piece at the rear of the ship that makes it easier to steer. |
caravel | Light ships that sat high in the seas - allowing them to sail close to shore and into shallow inlets |
mercantilism | An economic theory that depends on a greater amount of exports than imports in order to increase a country's supply of gold and silver (wealth for the Mother country). |
capitalism | A system in which people, rather than governments, own property, make goods, and buy and sell them freely for a profit. |
import | A good brought into a country from another country |
export | A good that is sent from 1 country into another |
balance of trade | Difference between what a nation imports and exports |
tariff | Taxes on foreign goods |
interdependence | Relying on one another for goods and resources |
Line of Demarcation | A line on the globe drawn by the Pope to divide new lands between Spain to the West and Portugal to the East. |