1. Ch. 3 Social Studies
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2. Why did Marco Polo go to China?
To bring back valuable trade goods like silk cloth, tea, spices, gun powder, paper money, and coal.

3. What were the effects of Marco Polo’s travels?
New ideas, new skills, new customs
** the want to know more about other countries

4. What is the definition of the Silk Road?
A network of land and sea routes for trading

5. Where did the Silk Road go?
Connected Asia and Europe

6. Why did Zheng He travel?
To expand Chinese Trade
To show Chinese Power

7. What were the results of Zheng He’s travels?
The demand for Chinese trade goods grew

8. What were the effects of trading?
New goods like coal, paper money, new skills, new ideas, new knowledge about other cultures

9. What directions did most of the trade routes go?
East and South

10. What is Ghana’s nickname?
Land of gold

11. What did Ghana trade?
Gold for salt

12. What did Mali trade? Gold for salt
Animal hides, gold and kola nuts for European goods like cloth, horses, and other goods

13. Who was Mansa Musa and why was he important?
He was a Muslim who went on a pilgrimage to Mecca and strengthened trade ties between Mali and other Muslim nations.
He was important because Mali reached its peak as trading empire during his rule.

14. What did Songhai control?
More land than Ghana and Mali

15. Where was the Vikings home? Where did the Vikings travel?
Their home was called Scandinavia.
They traveled to Newfoundland, Canada.

16. Why did the Vikings return home to Scandinavia?
Conflict broke out between the Vikings and the Native Americans

17. Where did the Portuguese explore?
The African shore

18. What were the effects of the Portuguese exploring the African coast?
They mapped the African coast, reported sailing conditions, brought back gold, and profited from the slave trade

19. Why was the Renaissance important?
We had new art, new learning, new inventions like the printing press, new ship designs, and new ship building techniques

20. Know the definition of Renaissance
Period of time that marked a new beginning in arts and sciences and a desire to learn more about the world

21. Know the definition of emperor
Ruler of an empire

22. Know the definition of magnetic compass
A tool used by sailors to determine their direction at sea

23. Know the definition of caravan
Group of traders traveling together

24. Know the definition of pilgrimage
Journey taken for religious reasons

25. Know the definition of astrolabe
A tool that used the sun and stars to find a location based on its distance from the equator

26. Know the definition of saga
Long spoken tale repeated from one generation to the next

27. Know the definition of navigation
Science sailors use to plot their course and find their location far from land

28. Know the definition of slave trade
Buying and selling of human beings