MarcoPolo
SS test 11/30/07
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- caravel
- a fast sailing ship that could be steered easliy and hold large amounts of cargo
- expedition
- a purposeful journey
- coal
- Stones that burn like logs
- Zheng He
- Chinese Sea captain
- Sunni Ali
- emperor of Songhai trading salt and gold with Europe and egypt
- Zhu Di
- Emperor of China in 1402
- currency
- money
- Kublai Khan
- Ruler of China in 1275
- caravan
- a group of people traveling together for safety especially through desert areas
- Timbuktu
- the capital of Songhai and a trading center
- navigation
- the science of determining the location or direction a ship is going
- middle ages
- the history of Europe in 500 to 1500
- Marco Polo
- treaveller who learned more about China than any other European
- Medici
- family in Italy that became wealthy from banking
- The silk Road
- The route that traders used between Europe and China
- Book Title
- The Description of the World/Travels of Marco Polo
- merchant
- a person who buys and sells something to earn a living