Building Our Country: Chapter 2 Vocabulary

People who buy and sell goods

• merchants

• conquistadors

• astrolabes

• caravels

The process sailors use to plan their course and find their location far from land

• technology

• caravel

• navigation

• expedition

A tool that measures how far north or south of the equator you are located

• astrolabe

• magnetic compass

• caravel

• map

A ship with triangular sails; invented by Portuguese shipbuilders

• astrolabe

• merchants

• caravel

• conquistador

Stores and small settlements where goods can be bought and sold

• merchants

• trading posts

• slave trade

• navigation

Buying and selling humans as property

• slave trade

• expedition

• merchants

• navigation

A person who gives financial support to another person or cause

• merchant

• patron

• colony

• empire

A group of Spanish conquerors

• caravels

• conquistadors

• empires

• colonies

An organized journey

• expedition

• navigation

• circumnavigate

• empire

A group of people or nations ruled by a single leader

• colony

• trading posts

• expedition

• empire