European Exploration Vocabulary

Person who makes maps. 

• cartographer

• circumnavigate

• mother country

• viceroy

to travel all the way around the world

• Line of Demarcation

• Tariff

• Circumnavigation

• Market Economy

to send people to a settle in a foreign territory while maintaining ties to their home country

• Colonization

• Market Economy

• Line of Demarcation

• Tariff

A tax placed on imported or exported goods

• Colony

• Viceroy

• Tariff

• Circumnavigate

Bodies of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland

• cartographer

• colony

• tariff

• mother country

trading around the world 

• Circumnavigation

• Global trade

• Market Economy

• Viceroy

a country’s power depended mainly on its wealth.

• Capitalism

• Mercantilism

• Socialism

• Communism

Buyers and sellers have a choice.  Government cannot dictate what you buy and sell

• Circumnavigation

• Mercantilism

• Market Economy

• Tariff

a tool using the positions of the stars or sun to help explorers figure out where they were

• Astrolabe

• Compass

• Caravel

• Gunpowder

Economic system based on the private ownership of resources and production that is driven to make a profit

• Mercantilism

• Capitalism

• Favorable Balance of Trade

• Expansion