ancient journeys
She was one of the first known women explorers in history from Egypt.
Who is Hatshepsut?
By 323 B.C., Alexander had conquered these lands
What is Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Palestine, Persia, and parts of India?
Ibn Fadlan's travels took his to these parts of the world.
Where are the Viking kingdoms in northern Europe to the court of Baghdad?
He spoke about monsters and other imaginary creatures.
Who is Marco Polo?
Hatshepsut sent a trading expedition to this land in East Africa.
What is Punt?
Christian soldiers got this from the muslims.
What are knowledge and skills, and learning about new regions?
What Ibn Faldan used to remember what he had seen.
What is Ibn Faldan's diary?
He wanted Columbus to find a new route to the East.
Who is the Spanish King?
He sailed all the way to the Sargasso Sea.
Who was Himlico?
Alexander came from this country.
What is Greece?
Nasir Khusraw's travel literature.
What is Safarnama?
What Marco Polo brought back about new goods such as paper money.
What is new information?
The reason for explorers to explore.
Why explorers want to find new markets for goods and new treasures to bring back home?
Columbus landed here instead of India.
Where is the island of the West Indies?
He wrote about the people of India and their history and astronomy and medicine.
Who is Al Biruni?
What Ibn fadlans diary gave Muslim Geographers.
What is the freezing winter climate in the Viking Lands?
Who rulers travel with when they were conquering others.
What are armies?
What historians doubt about Marco Polo.
What is whether he actually traveled to all of the lands he is said to have visited?
He was the first historian to study human societies.
Who was Ibn Khaldun?
The reason a new route to the east was needed.
What is the Mediterranean Sea had been blocked by Turkish vessels?