| A | B |
|---|
| technology | applying scientific discoveries to practical use |
| navigate | to plan and control the course of a ship or aircraft |
| expedition | an organized journey with a specific purpose, such as exploration |
| colony | a territory under the rule of another country, usually a distant one |
| Northwest Passage | a legendary water route through North America; Europeans in 1500's believed it would lead to China. |
| contagious disease | an illness that tends to spread from one person to another |
| mercantilism | British economic policy in which the American colonies provided raw materials to England for manufacture, then bought the manufactured goods back from England |
| Jamestown | the first permanent English settlement/colony founded in America. It was in what is now Virginia. |
