Travel and transport

Marco Polo was only 16 when he joined his father and uncle on an expedition through Asia. During his 24-year journey along the Silk Road, he visited places like Constantinople, Baghdad and Beijing. By the time he returned to Venice in 1295, he had travelled almost_____

• 4,000 km

• 14,000 km

• 24,000 km

Shoqan Ualikhanov is famous for his scientific expeditions to Issyk-Kul (1856), Kulzha (1857) and Kashgaria (1858). He wrote several books about the geography, history and culture of Central Asia, including A Description of Kashgaria and ___

• The Tatars

• Ablai Khan

• Sketches of Zhongar

In 1911, Roald Amundsen led the first successful expedition to the South Pole. In 1926, he flew over the North Pole in a / an____ . Four years earlier, he had tried to reach the North Pole by ship but hadn’t been successful.

• airship

• hot air balloon

• helicopter

Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. This was just one of her many records. During a round-the-world flight in 1937, Amelia’s plane disappeared somewhere over the___ Ocean.

• Atlantic

• Pacific

• Indian

When he boarded Vostok 1 on 12 April 1961 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Yuri Gagarin had flown in a plane hundreds of times, but he had never flown in a spacecraft. In fact, no one had done that before – Gagarin was the first human to go into outer space. About eight years later, Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on___

• Mars

• the moon

• the sun