Ch 2 vocabulary

a person who buys and trades materials

• merchant

• boat captain

• Map maker

• Slave

When slaves traders bought and sold humans as property

• merchants

• slave trade

• boat captains

• settlers

navigation

• to read a map

• to use the stars

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

• using tools to find a route

this tool measured the height of the sun or a star above the horizon

• caravel

• compass

• astrolabe

• sextant

This tool helped sailors feel more confident when traveling in unfamiliar waters.

• accurate maps

• a caravel ship

• the compass

• the chronometer

to inspect or look carefully

• review

• scan

• examine

• evaluate

a person who gives money to support another person or cause

• navigator

• king

• merchant

• patron

a group of nations or peoples ruled by a single group or leader

• colony

• nation

• region

• empire