Question | Answer |
When was the age of exploration | late 1400's |
Prince Henry was from where? | Portugal |
Marco Polo explored where and when? | Far east, 1271-1295 |
Prince Henry hoped that sailing would bring him what? | adventure, fame, fortune |
Marco Polo was born when and where? | 1254, Venice |
Marco Polo went with who to go where? | his uncle and father, Cathay (China) |
Why did they go to China? | they wanted the silk, porcelain, jade, spices, and gold china had. |
THE SILK ROAD DEF.: | a series of interconnecting routes that stretched about 4000 miles across the continent of Asia. |
It took the Polos's how many years to reach china? | 3 1/2 |
Kublai Khan gave the Polo's what in his government? | Positins of authority |
Things that Marco observed in China: | They had a postal system with runners and horseback riders; they had paper money; and they used coal to create heat. |
the polo's stayed in china how many years? | 24 |
Marco became a prisoner in | Genoa |
it was a good thing because | it gave other prisoners time to write his stories about china down for a book. |
compass: | a tool used to set a course and follow the direction faithfully. |
astrolabe: | a tool used to measure the angle between the sun or a star and the horizon at a specific time of day or night; from this the sailor can find his latitude. |
dead reckoning: | estimation |
trade winds | fast moving winds, blows toward the equator |
doldrums | calm winds along the equator |
caravels | new ship designed by the portuguese |
Bartolomeu Dias | sailed to the tip of africa; portuguese |
Vasco da Gama | portuguese; sailed to India |