Traveling Asia's Silk Road
The Silk Road was a network of land and sea routes used for this.
What is trading?
The primary resource of Ghana that made it a trading center.
What is gold?
The viking who was told to leave Scandinavia because he was quick to anger and quick to use his sword.
Who is Eric the Red?
This viking was probably the first person to reach North America from Europe.
Who is Leif Ericson?
Two primary resources traded on the Silk Road - besides silk.
What are tea and spices?
The Silk Road connected this country to other lands.
What is a China?
The resource the kingdom of Ghana mostly traded for.
What is salt?
The two islands the Vikings sailed to after leaving Scandinavia.
What are Iceland and Greenland?
After this ruler's pilgrimage to Mecca, trade strengthened between Mali and other Muslim nations.
Who is Mansa Musa?
This African kingdom was known as the "land of gold."
What is Ghana?
Caravans primarily traveled by this animal on the Silk Road.
What is a camel?
The city that became a center for trade and learning in the Mali kingdom.
What is Timbuktu?
European trade routes created lasting contact between these two hemispheres.
What are the Eastern and Western Hemispheres?
He led the naval fleets that helped expand China's trade and show their power.
Who is Zheng He?
Vasco da Gama sailed around the tip of Africa to reach this country in Asia.
What is India?
The country Marco Polo traveled from to reach China on the Silk Road.
What is Italy?
The kingdom that followed Ghana and Mali as an African trading empire.
What is Songhai?
The Vikings left Newfoundland because of conflicts with these people.
Who are Native Americans?
This leader of Portugal gathered experts to design ships and find new trade routes at sea.
Who is Prince Henry?
Type of time lines that compare events happening at the same time in two different locations.
What are parallel time lines?
The type of fleet China created to expand trade and show their power.
What is a naval fleet?
Europeans took cloth and this animal to North African ports to trade.
What are horses?
The Portuguese profited from exploring Africa by bringing home gold and these people.
Who are slaves?
He sailed along the Western coast of Africa before his ships were blown around the Southern tip of Africa by severe storms.
Who is Bartolomeu Dias?
The nickname given to camels due to their ability to travel across the Sahara.
What is the "ship of the desert"?