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ch.3
Explorers and Adventurers
| Vocab. | Definition |
|---|---|
| Cartographer | A mapmaker |
| Causeway | A raised roadway across a body of water |
| Charter | An agreement in which one person or group grants rights and responsibilities to another person or group |
| Circumnavigate | To go around |
| Dividend | A share of profits received by a stockholder |
| Exract | To take something out |
| Immune | Having a high degree of resistance to a disease |
| Joint Stock Company | A company into which people invest their money in exchange for stock |
| Saga | A folk tale |
| Scurvy | A disease caused by lack of Vitamin C |
| Stock | Shares of a company |
| Stockholder | A person that owns a stock in a company |
| Validity | The Quality of being logically sound |