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SS Chpt 3-5th grade
European Explorers
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Eric the Red | Viking Explorer. Discovered Greenland after he was kicked out of Iceland |
| Greenland | very cold, Eric the Red called it Greenland because he wanted Icelanders to come/wanted them to think it was a good place to settle. |
| Vikings | Skilled sailors/explorers from Scandanavia. Left the area we now call Newfoundland because there were conflicts with the American Indians living there |
| Leif Ericsson | Eric the Red's son. Explorer who landed on NewFoundland on the east coast of what is today Canada. |
| Vinland | "Land of Wine" Leif Ericsson's men found grapes on the land so they called it "Vinland." |
| sagas | Long, spoken tales passed on from one generation to the next |
| Renaissance | Period in Europe around 1350 where people wanted to learn about the arts, sciences and other parts of the world |
| Johann Gutenberg | inventor of the printing press |
| Portuguese | They benefitted from exploring the coast of Africa because they brought home gold and slaves |
| Prince Henry | prince who was known for his navigation, in the 1420s, he developed a new trade route in Asia |
| navigation | science used by sailors to plot their course and determine their location |
| Bartolomeu Dias | explorer who sailed down during a storm where his ships were blown around the southern tip of Africa into the Indian Ocean |
| Cape of Good Hope | tip of South Africa, also called "Cape of Storms" Renamed by the king of Portugal; the name showed the Portuguese hope for sea routes to Asia. |
| Vasco da Gama | Portuguese explorer that sailed to India in 1497 |
| parallel time lines | two or more time lines grouped together |
| magnetic compass | Chinese invention that aided navigation by showing which direction was north |
| slave trade | Buying and selling of human beings |
| Marco Polo | Italian merchant who traveled to China to bring back goods. His journey affected Europe and Asia because they wanted to know more about each other. |
| Kublai Khan | Emperor of the Chinese empire |
| Mansa Musa | Ruler of an African trade city named Mali known for his immense wealth, went on a pilgrimage to Mecca which strengthened trade ties between Mali and Muslim nations |
| Venice | a trading city in Italy |
| Shangdu | In China, Kublai Khan lived there |
| emperor | ruler of the empire |
| Silk Road | connected China and other lands; network of land and sea routes for trading |
| Zheng He | Chinese explorer that traveled and helped trade and exploration to help show Chinese power. The result of his voyage was that demand for Chinese goods increased. |
| Sahara desert | desert in Africa home to many trading kingdoms |
| caravan | group of traders traveling together; early trade caravans in Africa traveled southward across the Sahara, caravans were used to bring goods to and from the lands of West Africa |
| Ghana | earliest kingdom in African; also known as the land of gold. But Ghana lacked an important resource - salt, which made them trade their gold with other kingdoms |
| Timbuktu | city in Africa where Arab trades bargained to get the best price for their salt in gold. |
| Mali | kingdom in Africa who controlled more land than Ghana. known for trading. Became wealthy after Ghana. Reached its peak as an empire under the rule of Mansa Musa. |
| pilgrimage | journey made for religious purposes |
| Mecca | a city in the Arabian peninsula that is holy to Muslims |
| Songhai | another trading kingdom in West Africa, became wealthy after Ghana |
| astrolabe | an instrument that helped sailors use the sun and stars to find their location in latitude-their distance from the equator. |
| Effects of Trade | People learned about other cultures,; people share goods and ideas with others in different countries; people became interested in others and their customs |
| Cloth and Horses | What the Europeans brought to trade in North America |
| European Ocean Trade Route | formed a lasting contact between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres |
| Calcutta, India | Portuguese merchants settled here and bought spices at low prices and shipped them back to Europe |
| Camel | Known as "Ship of the desert" because the desert is like an ocean and sand dunes can be compared to ocean waves. The camel was used for transportation across the desert much like a ship is used for transportaion across the ocean. |
| Printing Press | very important invention because previous to this, books were written by hand, so this made books easier to print, more available and less expensive. So this allowed ideas and knowledge to be spread faster. |
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