Social Studies Chp. 3
Terms
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- the period of European history from around 500 to 1500.
- Middle Ages
- a shop owner
- merchant
- a journey made for a special purpose
- expedition
- the coins, paper, or gold used as money in countries
- currency
- a group of people traveling together for safety, especially through desert areas
- caravan
- the science of determining a ship's location and direction
- navigation
- a fast sailing ship that could be steered easily and hold large amounts of cargo
- caravel
- a Portugese explorer who became the first European to sail around the southern tip of Africa
- Bartolomeau Dias
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Portugese sea captain who set out for India with 4 ships.
The first to reach Asia by sea. - Vasco de Gama
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a merchant who traveled from Europe through Persia and on to china;
upon his return he knew more about China than any other person
shared this information with Kublai Khan - Marco Polo
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ruler of China;
he was entertained by stories from Marco Polo - Kublai Khan
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city in Songhai ;
important trade city because of its location between the salt mines in northern Africa and the gold fields in the south - Timbuktu
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Portugese explorer who set out to prove that there was a way to reach Asia by ship.
Also known as: Henry the Navigator
He helped make improvements in navigation - Prince Henry
- a diagram that presents information in a way that is easy to understand
- graph
- a kind of graph that shows changes over time
- line graph
- a kind of graph that shows how something can be divided into parts
- circle graph