Maps
This map shows natural land features
Physical Map
These lines are horizontal and tell us how far you are north or south.
lines of latitude
He founded Greenland
Eric the Red
Marco Polo's goal as a merchant was to bring what back from China?
Goods (silk, tea, gun powder, paper money, coal)
Columbus sailed west from Spain to find what?
A faster route to the Indies
This map shows boundaries made by people and can be brightly colored.
Political Map
These lines are vertical and tell us how far you are east or west.
lines of longitude
He landed on North America and founded what is now called Newfoundland.
Lief Ericson
The Silk Road connected Europe to where
China
Columbus thought he landed in India, but he actually landed here.
The Bahamas
This is the production of maps.
Cartography
Latitude lines are also called this.
parallels
These are the first Europeans to sail to North America.
The Vikings
The silk road was on both ___________ and ______________.
land and sea
What things were passed on the Columbian Exchange?
People, crops, animals
A map that is spherical, like a ball
A globe
Zero degrees East or West, and divides the world into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres
The Prime Meridian
This is the Vikings main way of travelling.
Boat/ Sailing
What was exchanged on the silk road, besides goods?
ideas and customs
These people were negatively impacted by Columbus' discovery of The New World.
The Native people
Half of the earth or a globe is called this.
A hemisphere
Zero degrees north or south and divides the world into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres
The equator
If you were going to give someone directions to your favorite Viking hangout, what type of locations would you use?
Relative locations
If you were going to give the location of one point on the Silk Road would you use an absolute or relative location?
absolute
Columbus discovered The New World. It would later be called America because of Amerigo Vespucci. What was Amerigo Vespucci's job?
Cartographer