10/10 Vocabulary Practice

Match the following terms with their definitions:

• colonies

• an area that is controlled by or belongs to a country and is usually far away from it

• colonize

• a large farm where cash crops are grown

• plantation

• to make settlements in a new place, to form colonies

• cash crops

• can be sold easily in markets

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7.2.a

7.2

7.2.b

Which of the following is the definition of the "Columbian Exchange"?

• an exchange of goods, ideas and skills from the Old World (Europe, Asia and Africa) to the New World (North and South America) and vice versa.

• a labor system where a person is bound by a contract to work for another for a specified time, especially in return for payment of travel expenses

• an instrument used by sailors to determine their location by observing the position of the stars and planets

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7.2

7.2.a

7.2.b

Indentured servants were bound by a _________________ to work for a specified amount of time, usually in return for payment or travel expenses.

• contract

• amendment

• treaty

• they were not bound by anything

The system in a country that involves making, buying, and selling goods:

• economic

• settlement

• caravel

Which of these navigational technologies in the Age of Exploration showed which direction was north?

• astrolabe

• Mercator projection

• magnetic compass

Which one of these navigational technologies was used by sailors to help determine their location? (by observing the position of the stars/planets)

• astrolabe

• caravel

• Mercator projection

Early Europeans referred to the area highlighted in green as the ________________________.

• Old World

• New World

An ongoing competition:

• rivalry

• settlement

• economic

An economic and political system with government-controlled trade:

• mercantilism

• self-sufficiency

• Columbian Exchange

• The Silk Road

Which of the following is a synonym for the term "native"?

• indigenous

• caravel

• immigrant