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Polo
People
Technology
This & That
Places
100
Polo's home town
What is Venice, Italy
100
Polo's Chinese friend
Who is Kublai Khan
100
This helped measure the position of the stars
What is the astrolabe
100
A group of people traveling together
What is a caravan
100
First European to get to Africa by sea
Who is Vasco da Gama
200
Captured here
What is Genoese War
200
Sonhai leader in mid-1400's
Who is Sunni Ali
200
This ship improved the quality of sailing
What is a caravel
200
A purposeful journey
What is an expedition
200
An important trade city in Northern Africa
What is Timbuktu
300
His 'biographer'
Who is Rustichello
300
Chinese Muslim sea captain
Who is Zheng He
300
One of the first banking families
Who are the Medicis
300
The science of determining a ships location and direction
What is navigation
300
New name for Cape of Storms
What is Cape of Good Hope
400
Nickname
What is Il Milione
400
He died before reaching southern Africa
Who is Prince Henry
400
This allowed for faster steering of a ship
What is a rudder
400
First European to sail around the southern coast of Africa
Bartolomeu Dias
400
This country led the way in finding new routes to Asia
What is Portugal
500
His description if coal
What is stones that burn like logs
500
He began to increase trade on the Silk Road
Who is Zhu Di
500
The Chinese invented this, but scientists created a magnetic one to increase its worth
What is a compass
500
Period of time when Europeans didn't think too much about life outside their countries
What is the Middle Ages
500
Mountain range European travelers had to cross to get to Asia
What is the Himalayas