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