Vocabulary
A new type of ship for its era, about 70 ft long
What is a caravel?
Sunni Ali
Who is the King of Songhai?
A network of trade routes that connected China to various routes.
What is the silk road?
Important trade city of Songhai between salt mines of North Africa
What is Timbuktu?
The Meditterrean Sea, Black Sea, Arabian Sea, Indian Sea, Bay of Bengal, South China Sea
What are bodies of water Marco Polo sailed through?
The science of determining a ship's sailing direction and location
What is Navigation?
Increase trade along the Silk Toad which helped exchange goods
Who is Zhu Di?
What is the use of watermills, windmills, and new deeper digging
The destination city Vasco De Gama reached his voyage to become 1st European to reach Asia
What is Calicut, India
Stones that burn logs
What is Coals
the coins, paper, or gold used as money
what is currency
The Chinese Sea captain who commanded a fleet of 62 large ships
Who is Zheng He?
Period of european history, from about 500 to 1500 AD
What are the middle ages
Once called cape of storms, it is the southern most tip of african
The things that Marco polo was introduced to Asia
Coal, paper, money,
A group of people traveling together
What is a caravan
A Portuguese sea captain reach Asia
who is Vasco da Gama
Traveled from Europe to Persis then China
The western most country on Europes mainland
What is Portugal
A direct, and spicy result of Vasco da Gama voyage to India which cut out silk road and all middlemen
Compared to prices when Portugal first began to explore
Also called a purposeful journey
Who is Henry the Navigator
the ruler of China who hosted Marco Polo
Who is Kublai Kahn
In part, inspired by Portugals success, Spain sought shorter route to Asia
What is the Atlantic Ocean
People who sell and buy for a living
What are merchants