Show:
Silk Road
Africa's Empires
European Explorers
European Explores: Act II
Miscellaneous
100
The reason Marco Polo traveled to China
What is "to trade"?
100
These were referred as the "ships of the desert"
What are camels?
100
The Vikings did not have a written language, but instead passed on spoken tales called this.
What are sagas?
100
The period is know as the "rebirth"
What is the Renaissance?
100
Mansa Musa traveled here on a pilgrimage
What is Mecca?
200
The Silk Road connected what?
What is China and other lands?
200
This was the first African empire and was know as "land of gold"
What is Ghana?
200
The Vikings were interested in traveling west, and landed on this piece of land, which today is eastern Canada.
What is New Foundland?
200
This was an effect of Prince Henry's drive to explore the coast of Africa. (2 possible answers)
What is 1) The Africa's coast was gradually explored 2) Ships were bringing home gold and slaves
200
Timbuktu, long known as a center for trade, became known for this after Mansa Musa brought back Muslim artists and scholars.
What is a center for learning?
300
A network of land and sea routes for trading
What is the Silk Road?
300
People traveled across this region from the north to reach the African empires
What is the Sahara Desert?
300
Portugal sent Prince Henry here to trade.
What is Africa?
300
Bartolomeu Dias and his crew reached Africa's tip before violent storms caused them to turn back. They named the area they reached this.
What is Cape of Good Hope?
300
a ruler of an empire
What is an emperor?
400
This is the reason for why Zheng He and his fleet wanted to reach new places
What is "to trade and show power"?
400
Ghana lacked this resource
What is salt?
400
Portugal brought this good back from Africa.
What is gold?
400
Vasco da Gama and his crew sailed around Africa to reach this land for trade
What is India?
400
Marco Polo left this city (or country) to travel eastward to China
What is Venice, Italy?
500
As more and more people were exposed to China's silk, this happened.
What is "the demand for China's goods grew"?
500
Europeans brought these resources to Africa to trade (only one needs to be said)
What is cloth and horses?
500
Portugal also profited from this, the act of buying and selling human beings.
What is slave trade?
500
Portugal's numerous sea trade routes caused them to become this
What is "a rich trading empire"?
500
This was an effect of Marco Polo's journey
What is "people from both Asia and Europe wanted to learn more about each other"?