Chapter 3 Lessons1-3

Someone who buys and sells goods to earn money

• navigation

• merchant

• kingdom

A group of people and animals that travel together

• caravan

• merchant

• circumnavigate

A place ruled by a king or queen

• caravan

• astrolabe

• kingdom

The use of scientific knowledge and tools to do things better and more rapidly

• technology

• profit

• kingdom

a tool that measures the height of the sun or a star above the horizon

• circumnavigate

• profit

• astrolabe

The science of planning and controlling the direction of a ship

• technology

• navigation

• astrolabe

The money a business has left over after all expenses have been paid

• profit

• slavery

• epidemic

a cruel system in which people are bought and sold and made to work without pay

• kingdom

• slavery

• epidemic

an outbreak of disease that spreads quickly and affects many people

• navigation

• slavery

• epidemic

a small community of people living in a new place

• kingdom

• settlement

• technology