Unit 1 Vocab Quiz

A business organization where many investors put funds together to raise money for large projects.

• Proprietary colony

• joint stock company

• headright system

• mercantilism

The theory that a state's power depends on its wealth

• headright system

• rationalism

• Mercantilism

• Pietism

To sail around

• circumnavigate

• astrolabe

• caravel

• migration

Circular ceremonial room built by the Anasazi

• pueblo

• astrolabe

• Kiva

• tribute

A device used to determine direction, latitude, and local time

• compass

• tribute

• caravel

• astrolabe

A colony owned by an individual

• revival

• headright

• proprietary colony

• joint stock

Spanish term for village-large housing structures

• pueblo

• mansion

• astrolabe

System in which settlers were granted land in exchange for settling in Virginia

• Proprietary System

• pueblo

• tribute

• Headright system

Period when early peoples learned how to plant and raise crops

• agriculture revolution

• Kiva

• migration

• pietism

Sailing ship capable of long-distance exploration

• tribute

• kiva

• caravel

• conquistador