Colonization Vocabulary 8th grade

Related to farmers and their way of life

• empire

• mercantilism

• agrarian

• harbors

Money for investment

• colony

• charter

• parliament

• capital

Crops that are grown for profit instead of personal use

• migration

• cash crops

• region

• toleration

Written contract issued by the government giving permission to establish a colony

• migration

• colony

• civilization

• charter

A culture characterized by city trade centers, specialized workers, organized religion, advanced tools

• civilization

• mercantilism

• parliament

• plantation

Transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between Western and Eastern hemispheres

• representative government

• primary sources

• social contract

• Columbian exchange

A settlement begun by a group of people in a distant region governed by home country

• harbors

• migration

• colony

• charter

A group of nations ruled by one ruler

• colony

• charter

• plantation

• empire

Travel for the purpose of discovery

• Exploration

• capital

• colony

• region

Body of water where ships can seek shelter from storms

• agrarian

• harbors

• mercantilism

• toleration