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outposts or settlements ruled by the homeland or Mother Country
a) colony
b) astrolabe
c) tariff
d) export

an imaginary line running down the middle of the Atlantic Ocean that divided land between Spanish and Portuguese
a) mercantilism
b) line of demarcation
c) caravel
d) captialism

a tool of exploration that uses a magnetized needle to determine direction
a) rudder
b) caravel
c) gun powder
d) compass

a tool of exploration that uses the position of the sun and stars to determine latitude
a) caravel
b) rudder
c) astrolabe
d) cartography

science of making maps
a) cartography
b) raw materials
c) tariffs
d) navigation

a flat, moveable piece found at the rear of the ship that makes it easier to steer
a) astrolabe
b) rudder
c) caravel
d) compass

a Portuguese ship that sat high on the water, which allowed it to sail close to shore
a) astrolab
b) rudder
c) caravel
d) gunpowder

group of people that make money from trading goods
a) raw materials
b) captialism
c) mercantilism
d) merchant class

material before being processed or manufactured into a final form
a) raw materials
b) astrolabe
c) exports
d) imports

taxes on products that are sold and traded
a) imports
b) caravels
c) tariffs
d) mother country

economic system where the Mother Country wanted to increase their country’s wealth by controlling trade with other countries
a) capitalism
b) mercantilism
c) socialism
d) fascism

The country from which the settlers of a colony originally came from
a) merchant class
b) market economy
c) mother country
d) colony

sending goods out to another country to sell
a) import
b) export
c) caravel
d) tariffs

Goods brought into a country from another
a) export
b) import
c) tariffs
d) market economy

is an economic system based upon the private ownership of resources and production that is driven to make profit
a) socialism
b) capitalism
c) mercantilism
d) nationalism

a system in which individual buyers and sellers interact in the marketplace to exchange goods
a) market economy
b) merchant class
c) line of demarcation
d) cartography

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