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Asia's Silk Road
Africa's trade
European explorers
Vocabulary
This and That
100
Traveled to China in search of goods to trade
Who was Marco Polo?
100
the huge desert in Africa where traders traveled to and from West Africa
What is the Sahara desert
100
This group of people left their homeland of Scandinavia in search of new land
Who are the Vikings
100
This device made it possible for the sailors to determine their direction far out at sea
What is magnetic compass
100
The Renaissance sparked a new interest in the arts and sciences and a desire to learn more about the world began in this country
What is began in Italy
200
Marco Polo brought valuable trade goods from foreign lands
What is a merchant
200
The earliest kingdom of Africa called the "land of gold"
What is Ghana
200
Leif Ericsson found grapes growing here and his followers settled here but soon fought with the American Indians and returned home
What is Vinland
200
A group of traders traveling together across the desert
What is a caravan
200
The Portuguese and later other Europeans began transporting African captives to Europe, where they became servants
What is the slave trade
300
Chinese emperor who insisted Maro Polo stay and explore for him
Who is Kublai Khan
300
This was referred to as "worth its weight in gold"
What is salt
300
This country took the lead in finding new sea routes to Asia
What is Portugal
300
A journey taken for religious reasons
What is a pilgrimage
300
The Vikings used these long spoken tales to inform others of their adventures
What is a saga
400
Traders and trade goods were not all that traveled the Silk Road.
What is ideas, skills, and customs
400
This African king was known for his immense wealth and taking a religious journey to Mecca
Who was Mansa Musa
400
He gathered the best and most experienced ship designers, mapmakers and experienced sea captains to develop new sea routes
Who was Prince Henry
400
an instrument that helped sailors find their location in latitude by using the sun and the stars
What is an astrolabe
400
A diagram showing major events in different places during the same time period of time
What are parallel time lines
500
Marco Polo's effect on the people of Asia and Europe
What is made the Asians and the Europeans want to know more about each other.
500
This West African trading kingdom controlled more land than both Ghana and Mali
What was Songhai
500
This Portuguese explorer rounded Africa and sailed east and reached India iin 1498
Who was Vasco da Gama
500
The science sailors used to plot their course and find their location far from land
What is navigaton
500
Thanks to this invention books became available to many readers and now new ideas could spread more quickly. Also, who was the inventor
What was Johann Gutenberg