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Marco Polo
Marco Polo 2
Europe
Trade
100
A period of European history from about 500 to 1500.
What is Middle Ages
100
Purposeful journeys
What is expeditions.
100
Coins, paper, or gold used as money and usually varies from country to country.
What is Currency
100
Growth of European trade developed this place to keep currency.
What is a bank.
200
People who buy and sell to earn a living.
What is Merchants.
200
Title of Marco Polo's book.
What is The Description of the World, The Book of Marvels, or The Travels of Marco Polo
200
A group of people traveling together, especially through desert areas.
What is caravans.
200
These people wrote letters that promised payment at a future fair.
What is Merchants.
300
A young man who traveled from Europe through Persia and on to China.
What is Marco Polo.
300
The year Marco Polo died.
What is 1324
300
The kingdom that Sunni Ali became a king of. Eventually became a very wealthy and powerful kingdom.
What is Songhai.
300
This area became a major trading center for gold and salt.
What is West Africa.
400
A ruler of China that had his own court.
What is Kublai Khan.
400
A network of trade routes that connected China to various parts of Europe and India.
What is the Silk Road.
400
An important trade city because of its location between salt mines and gold fields.
What is Timbuktu.
400
A Chinese Muslim sea captain, that made seven voyages while exploring Southeast Asia.
What is Zheng He.
500
Three Cities that were the most important commercial towns and cities.
What is Venice, Florence, and Genoa
500
____________ studied the map when drawing maps of Asia.
What is Mapmakers.
500
Zhu Di began to increase trade on this ancient road names after the most important item carried over it.
What is Silk Road.
500
European merchants traded at these places along the main trade routes.
What is international trade fairs.