Unit 2: Lesson 1-Exploration and Colonization

Most people of this time period were poor __________.

• merchants
• profits
• Vikings
• farmers

A person who buys, sells, and trades goods for profit is a _____________________.

• merchant
• barter
• Vikings
• farmers

______ is the trading of goods for goods.

• profit
• barter
• farmers
• Vikings

The science of determining a ship's location and direction is ____________.

• Vikings
• compass
• navigation 
• merchant

______ is the money made on goods that exceed the cost of production. 

• profit
• merchant
• economy
• spices

Norse/North people or ________ were the first people of the Middle Ages to travel to distant regions. 

• merchants
• farmers
• Traders
• Vikings

Traders went to West Africa in 1350s looking for what? 

• silver
• gold
• spices
• silk

These ships were fast, could move easy, and travel long distances....

• sailboats
• steamboats
• caravels
• row boats

_______ was an explorer from 1295 who traveled the world beyond Europe and Asia.

• Vasco da Gama
• Marco Polo
• Mr. Bryer
• Vikings

________ showed the safest routes to follow along the African coast.

• globes
• maps
• atlas
• compass