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Vocabulary 1
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People
100
The period of European history from about 500 to 1500 is called this.
What is the Middle Ages?
100
The science of determining a ship's direction and location.
What is navigation?
100
This is why Marco Polo's journey to Asia was so important.
What is he made trade routes bigger and got Europe interested in trading with Asia?
100
Europeans learned about Asia through stories of Marco Polo's _________________.
What is expeditions?
100
The emperor who increased trade on the Silk Road.
Who is Zhu Di?
200
People who buy and sell to earn a living.
What is a merchant?
200
A ship that was about 70 feet long and could carry large amounts of cargo.
What is a caravel?
200
How the expansion of European trade led to the development of banks.
What is traders needed bankers to hold their money, convert currency, and lend money for trade?
200
He was given credit for stirring Europe's interest in Asia.
Who is Marco Polo?
200
The Portuguese ship captain who reached the Cape of Good Hope.
Who is Bartolomeu Dias?
300
A diagram that presents information in a way that is easy to understand.
What is a graph?
300
The network of trade routes that connected China to various parts of Europe and India.
What is the Silk Road?
300
Why Timbuktu was an important trade city.
What is its location between the salt mines in Northern Africa and the gold fields in the South. It was also a great cultural center?
300
The Emperor of China during Marco Polo's travels to China.
Who is Kublai Khan?
300
The Chinese sea captain who explored Southeast Asia.
Who is Zheng He?
400
The coins, paper, or gold as money and it usually varies from country to country.
What is currency?
400
He found a sea route to Asia, as well as created a new ship.
Who is Prince Henry?
400
How the Cape of Good Hope got its name.
What is it was renamed because of its importance as a new route to the east?
400
What Vasco Da Gama proved to Europe when he reached Asia by sea.
What is he showed a way to Asia without using the Silk Road?
400
The king of Songhai who expanded his empire and increased trade with Europe.
Who is Sunni Ali?
500
A group of people traveling together, especially through desert areas.
What is a caravan?
500
He was the first European to reach Asia by sea.
Who is Vasco Da Gama?
500
Besides goods, the other things international merchants shared with each other.
What is ideas such as technology, new methods of farming, cultures, and events in their own parts of the world?
500
The two different graphs mentioned in this chapter and the difference between them.
What is a line graph shows a pattern of change over time, and a circle graph shows how things can be divided into parts?
500
How long the Polos spent in China.
What is 17 years?