Marco Polo
Where was Marco Polo born? (city and state)
What is Venice, Italy?
Name the small, fast, easy to steer ship sailors used.
What is caravel?
What is the tool with a magnetic needle that always points north?
What is a compass?
What are the 3 reasons for exploration?
What are the three reasons for exploration, God, Gold and Glory.
What ocean is between Europe and North America?
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
What was Marco's father's and uncle's jobs and what products did they deal with?
What is they were merchants and traders in silk, spice, fur and jewels?
What is the term that means planning and following a route?
What is navigation?
What are the lines that run from the north to south poles?
What is the name of the line with 0 degrees?
What are lines of lines of longitude?
What is the Prime Meridian?
What is Portugal?
Which ocean is located between Africa and Asia?
What is the Indian Ocean?
Name the 3 places that Polo was sent to on special missions.
What is China, Burma, and India?
What is the art of mapmaking?
What is cartography?
What are the imaginary lines that circle the Earth?
What is the line of this type with 0 degrees?
What are lines of latitude?
What is the equator?
What religion did Prince Henry want to spread?
What is Christianity?
What ocean is located to the east of Asia?
What is the Pacific Ocean?
What is the name of the leader of the Mongol Empire
What is Kublai Khan?
What is the word that means to travel completely around something?
What is circumnavigate?
What is the instrument that sailors used to measure the position of the sun and stars to help with navigation?
What is an astrolabe?
Name some of the reasons explorers were afraid to sail?
What is they thought the world was flat, and that sea monsters were out in the sea?
What empire took over the Silk Road?
What is the Byzantine Empire?
What are 4 things Marco learned about the Mongols?
What is they are excellent riders, they hunted with falcons, both men and women braided their hair, and they lived in yurts.
What continents made up the "New World," and which made up the "Old World?"
What is North and South America, and what is Africa, Asia and Europe?
Name the wind that blows steadily towards the equator.
What are trade winds?
Name the 5 countries that were in the race to discover a new trade route?
What are Portugal, Spain, France, Britain, and Netherlands?
What happened that made trade along the Silk Road less profitable?
What is traders were now being taxed to use the Silk Road?