Marco Polo
Genoa, the city where I was born, is in this country
What is Italy?
What is the Age of Exploration?
These were set up along the trade routes at different times during the year.
What are International Fairs?
These two Asian countries sent explorers in search of new markets.
What are Africa and China?
This example of a Primary Source was written by Marco Polo.
What is "The Travels of Marco Polo?"
This was my title before I started my travels.
What is a merchant?
1. technology improved
2. farmers drained marshes and cut down forests to make more land available for growing crops.
3. farmers used a new plow that increased crop production.
4. Stronger metal tools replaced weaker wooden ones.
Because it wasn't safe to carry money. Because merchants needed to convert different kinds of currency. Because some merchants needed to borrow money.
These two landforms made travel along the Silk Road challenging.
What are the Gobi Desert and the Himalayas?
A description of an original story written by a news reporter is a primary source.
What is false?
This is the country I traveled through to get to China.
What is Asia?
This is the reason people had more time to relax during the Age of Exploration.
Why did people not have to work as hard.
This family was the first to become wealthy from their banking practices.
Who were the Medicis?
This African city was an important center of trade and culture because of its location between the salt mines and the gold fields.
What is Timbuktu?
A museum display of a page of Anne Frank's diary.
What is a primary source?
This is the name of the Chinese leader who I became an ambassador for.
Who is the Kublai Khan?
This is the reason women no longer had to grind four by hand.
Why were watermills and windmills built?
Besides goods, this was traded on the Silk Road.
What are ideas?
The Chinese Emporer Zhu Di completed this huge project to expand and encourage exploration and trade.
What is built a fleet of ships?
A story in a Literature book about the writings of Marco Polo.
What is a secondary source?
These are three ways my book influenced Europe.
What are map-making, expedition planning, and new sources of trade?
1. permanent dwellings
2. hotels for travelers?
3. homes
Besides silk, these items were popular for trade along the Silk Road.
What are spices, perfumes, furs, and lumber?
This city in Africa was the destination for most explorers.
What is Songhai?
A draft of a letter from the president of the United States to Congress.
What is a primary source?