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Venetian merchant and traveler. His accounts of his travels to China offered Europeans a firsthand view of Asian lands and stimulated interest in Asian trade.
Who is Marco Polo?
someone who buys and sells goods to earn money.
What is a merchant?
Portuguese explorer who in 1488 led the first expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa from the Atlantic and sight the Indian Ocean.
Who is Bartolomeu Dias?
a tool that measures the height of the sun or a star above the horizon.
What is astrolabe?
the name for several routes connecting China to Europe
What was the Silk Road?
Chinese ruler that Marco Polo worked for while staying in China.
Who is Kublai Khan?
a place ruled by a king
What is a kingdom?
the first European to reach India by sea sailing around the tip of Africa.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
money a business has left over after all of its expenses have been paid.
What is profit?
by sailing west across the Atlantic Ocean instead of south around Africa.
How did Columbus plan to reach Asia?
Mali's greatest king who set up trade agreements with the cities he visited in Mecca.
Who is Mansa Musa?
a group of people and animals who travel together
What is a caravan?
King and Queen of Spain - help unify Spain and support and encourage Spanish exploration.
Who is King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella?
a cruel system in which people are bought and sold and made to work without pay.
What is slavery?
Where was the Aztec empire?
What is present-day Mexico.
invented the printing press
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
the use of scientific knowledge and tools to do things better and more rapidly.
What is technology?
Portuguese navigator who landed on the coast of Brazil in 1500 and claimed it for Portugal.
Who is Pedro Alvarez Cabral?
a small community of people living in a new place.
What is a settlement?
Why did the Spanish build haciendas?
What is they did not find much gold in North America, so they turned to farming.
Prince of Portugal who established a school of navigation.
Who is Prince Henry?
the science of planning and controlling the direction of the ship.
What is navigation?
Portuguese navigator who led the Spanish expedition of 1519-1522 that was the first to sail around the world.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
an outbreak of disease that spreads quickly and affects many people.
What is epidemic?
What was the main goal of the Spanish missions?
What is convert American Indians to Roman Catholicism.