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This is a leader of a country who rules like a king. Kubla Kahn was one of them.
What is an emperor?
100
Because of this, people got goods and ideas from far off lands, learned about other cultures and got new ideas and technology
What is The Silk Road
100
This Viking was known for his great temper and naming Greenland
What is Eric the Red
100
The king of Mali
What is Mansa Musa
100
The science of getting around the ocean
What is Navigation
200
A religious journey
What is a pilgrimage?
200
When people learned of Marco Polo's journey they wanted to do this
What is wanted to learn more about the other cultures.
200
This Viking is credited with finding Vineland (modern day New Foundland)
What is Leif Ericson.
200
This was the capital city of Mali.
What is Timbuktu
200
Means "rebirth" and it was a time of great ideas and scientific advancement in Europe
What is the Renaissance?
300
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An astrolable. Helped with navigation
300
More a network of sea and land routes, this was the way goods traveled from China to Europe for centuries
What is The Silk Road
300
The preferred Viking form of transportation.
What is a boat
300
To cross the Sahara you will need one of these since there is little water.
What is a camel (ship of the desert)
300
This technology is most famous for using magnetic north to help sailors and travelers find the correct direction.
What is the Magnetic Compass?
400
A group of travelers or traders across the desert. Camels might be a part of the group.
What is a caravan?
400
The main city where Portugal and her merchants set up their base of operations
What is Calicutt?
400
The goal of Vasco de Gama.
What is sail around Africa to India to set up a trade route that Portugal could control?
400
The kingdoms of Africa got rich on these goods that were plentiful in the area.
What is gold and salt
400
The custom of buy and selling of human beings for work and labor
What is The Slave Trade.
500
These stories combine history, legend and myth and are why we know a lot about Viking culture.
What is sagas?
500
Marco Polo traveled the Silk Road for this reason.
What is Trade?
500
The first book ever published on the Gutenberg printing press
What is The Gutenberg Bible.
500
The Silk Road was mostly controlled by this group:
What is Muslims.
500
A professional writer
What is a scribe