America
What were the names of the two empires in America?
What are the Incas and the Aztecs?
What was the famous trade routes called?
The Silk Road
What did Africa have many of?
Market cities
Who ruled the European countries?
Monarchs
Which empire used force to take over land and ruled up to 12 million people?
The Polos were super impressed by Chinese inventions like...( name 5)
gunpowder
compass
paper money
spices
silk
What was Africa known for?
art, ivory, gold
The Renaissance
Which empire built their capital on 2 islands in the middle of the lake for protection?
What is the Aztecs?
What were the boats they traveled in called?
Junks
What was the greatest known art center?
Benin
What did Johannes Gutenberg Invent?
The printing press
Name the Inca capital
Cuzco
Who was the Chinese traveler?
Zheng He
In Benin they would carve ivory and work with
_________ and ___________
brass and bronze
Gutenberg printed an article on who's travel?
Marco Polo
How did the Aztecs record information?
How did the Incas represent words and ideas?
The Aztecs used symbols and pictures. The Incas used Quipus.
Who paid for the travels? What happened when the ruler died?
The Chinese ruler paid for it and when he died the next ruler banned travel.
What is a large city and the villages that surround it called?
What city in Africa was this?
City-state
Swahili
travel, trade and learn.