Unit 7 Trade Vocabulary

Caravans

• a group of people, especially traders or pilgrims, traveling together across a desert

• a way or course taken in getting from a starting point to a destination.

• exchange (goods or services) for other goods or services without using money

• a new method, idea, product

Route

• a group of people, especially traders or pilgrims, traveling together across a desert

• a way or course taken in getting from a starting point to a destination.

• exchange (goods or services) for other goods or services without using money

• a new method, idea, product

Barter

• a group of people, especially traders or pilgrims, traveling together across a desert

• a way or course taken in getting from a starting point to a destination.

• exchange (goods or services) for other goods or services without using money

• a new method, idea, product

Innovation

• a group of people, especially traders or pilgrims, traveling together across a desert

• a way or course taken in getting from a starting point to a destination.

• exchange (goods or services) for other goods or services without using money

• a new method, idea, product

Merchant

• someone who works in or owns a retail business and sells goods

• send (goods or services) to another country for sale

• Something very large, or a large amount

• A widespread infectious disease

Export

• someone who works in or owns a retail business and sells goods

• send (goods or services) to another country for sale

• Something very large, or a large amount

• A widespread infectious disease

Bulk

• someone who works in or owns a retail business and sells goods

• send (goods or services) to another country for sale

• Something very large, or a large amount

• A widespread infectious disease

Plague

• someone who works in or owns a retail business and sells goods

• send (goods or services) to another country for sale

• Something very large, or a large amount

• A widespread infectious disease

Diffusion

• the spreading of something more widely

• relating to a population subgroup (within a larger or dominant national or cultural group) with a common national or cultural tradition.

•  the act or process of growing or causing something to grow or become larger or more advanced

• machinery and equipment developed from the application of scientific knowledge.

Ethnic

• the spreading of something more widely

• relating to a population subgroup (within a larger or dominant national or cultural group) with a common national or cultural tradition.

•  the act or process of growing or causing something to grow or become larger or more advanced

• machinery and equipment developed from the application of scientific knowledge.