Marco Polo and his family would bring back trade goods from China. What were they called?
Merchants
100
What kind of cloth did the Chinese learn to weave?
Silk
100
What important resource did Ghana lack?
salt
100
What are the followers of Islam known as?
Muslims
100
What were the long spoken tales called that the Viking sailors left behind?
Sagas
200
What Chinese invention made it possible for sailors to determine their direction far out to sea?
magnetic compass
200
Who was the man that was 17 when he set out on a great adventure to China?
Marco Polo
200
What is it called when a journey is taken for religious reasons?
pilgrimage
200
What was the other kingdom that rose and flourished from the middle 1300's through the 1500's and controlled more land than both Ghana and Mali?
Songhai
200
Who was the the man that was forced out of Iceland?
Eric the Red
300
What was the major trade route called between China and other lands?
Silk Road
300
What is a ruler of an empire called?
emperor
300
What was the name of the ruler that was in charge when Mali reached its peak as an empire in early 100's?
Mansa Musa
300
When the Renaissance was called a rebirth, what would it mark for the arts and sciences world?
New Beginning
300
What continent did Leif Ericsson and the Europeans first set their foot upon?
North America
400
Many ideas and skills traveled the Silk Road with traders and trade goods. What was the other thing called that traveled with the traders and trade goods?
customs
400
What religion did the Arab traders bring with them?
Islam
400
What kind of center did the city of Timbuktu become when many scholars and artists settled there?
center of learning
400
Who was the man that developed the printing press?
Johann Gutenberg
400
Who were the skilled sailors from Scandinavia?
Vikings
500
Who was the commander of the Chinese Naval Fleet that sailed in 1405?
Zheng He
500
What kingdom controlled more land than Ghana and owed its wealth to trade?
Mali
500
What was the instrument called that helped sailors use the sun and the stars to find their location in latitude and their distance from the equator?
astrolobe
500
What were the captives that the Portuguese and other Europeans transported as the slave trade grew? Not slaves!!!
African captives
500
What thing did they make advances on with design and building?