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A group of traders traveling together
Caravan
An instrument that helped sailors use the sun and the stars to find their location in latitude
astrolabe
Science sailors use to plot their course and find their location far from land
Navigation
He and his four ships sailed around Africa and reached India in 1498.
Vasco Da Gama
Invented the printing press
Johann Gutenberg
A kingdom that was very rich in gold
Ghana
The buying and selling of human beings
Slave trade
Tool used by sailors to determine their direction at sea
magnetic compass
Skilled sailors with long sleek wooden boats powered by only sails and oars
Vikings
Portuguese explorer who gathered together the best sea captains, mapmakers, etc…
Prince Henry the Navigator
A journey that is taken for religious reasons
Pilgrimage
Long spoken tale past down from one generation to the next
sagas
Period of time that marked a new beginning in arts and sciences
Renaissance
A vicious Viking, who was thrown out of Scandinavia and Iceland and settled in Greenland
Eric the Red
Traveled thousands of miles by ship, on foot, on horseback, and wagon to reach China
Marco Polo
A city in the Arabian peninsula that is holy to Muslims
Mecca
Ruler of an empire
Emperor
Discovered the Cape of Storms which was renamed to Cape of Good Hope.
Bartholmeau Dias
He found grapes in Newfoundland and named the land Vinland
Leif Ericsson
Commanded the Chinese naval fleet
Zheng He
The Muslim ruler of Mali
Mansa Musa
Name three things that Marco Polo saw when he reached China
Gun Powder, coal, paper money
Where did the Renaissance take place
Italy
What was the homeland of the Vikings
Scandinavia
What does Vinland stand for
Land of Wine