Exploration/Explorers

Someone who buys and sells goods to earn money

• Marco Polo

• merchant

• Columbian Exchange

• circumnavigate

Several Trade Routes connecting China and Europe in which merchants traveled the routes to buy silk, spices, and other goods

• circumnavigate

• Columbian Exchange

• Philippines

• Silk Road

First West African trading kingdom that was rich in gold but did not have enough salt so merchants from Arabia brought salt to them by crossing the Sahara desert

• Ghana

• West Indies

• Philippines

• China

Merchant from Italy that traveled to China with his father and uncle, worked for Kublai Khan, saw many inventions, wrote a book about his travels

• Christopher Columbus

• Hernan Cortez

• Marco Polo

• Ferdinand Magellan

Place ruled by a king or queen

• Ghana

• Kingdom

• West Indies

• Castle

Group of people and animals who traveled together

• Caravan

• Caravel

• Columbian Exchange

• Slavery

Science of planning and controlling the direction of a ship

• caravel

• compass

• navigation

• astrolabe

Tool that measures the height of the sun or a star above the horizon

• GPS

• compass

• Astrolabe

• navigation

Rebirth in learning and knowledge during 1300-1400

• trade

• technology

• profit

• Renaissance

Cruel system in which people are bought and sold and made to work without pay

• slavery

• Columbian Exchange

• profit

• Renaissance