| Term | Definition |
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| Marco Polo | was a merchant from the trading city of Venice who traveled to China to find valuable trade goods |
| Kublai Khan | was the emperor of China who had Marco Polo stay as a guest in his royal palace in Shangdu |
| Zhenh He | was commander of the Chinese army and made seven voyages of trade and exploration |
| Mansa Musa | was the king of Mali who built Timbuktu into a center of art and learning |
| Eric the Red | was a Viking who found and named Greenland. Even thought this was a cold land Eric the Red named it Greenland to encourage people to come to this area to settle. |
| Leif Ericsson | was Eric the Red's son. He was probably the first European to set foot on North America. He founded a Viking colony called Vinland in North America. |
| Johann Gutenburg | developed a printing press in Germany in 1450 |
| Prince Henry | pushed Portugal's exploration efforts in the 1400's |
| Bartolomeu Dias | was a Portugal explorer who found the tip of Africa. He named it "Cape of Storms", but the King of Portugal renamed it the Cape of Good Hope |
| Vasco de Gama | was another Portugal explorer who sailed across the Indian ocean, reached India in 1498. |
| Silk Road | was the major trade route between China and other lands. Traders, trade goods, ideas, skills and customs traveled along this road |
| Timbuktu | was a city in Africa that was a center of trade and learning |
| Magnetic Compass | was a Chinese invention that made it possible for the sailors to determine their direction far out at sea |
| Astrolabe | was an instrument developed by the Arabs that helped sailors use the sun and starts to find their location and their distance from the equator |
| Saga | is a long spoken tale |
| Pilgrimage | is a journey taken for religous reasons |
| Slave Trade | is the buying and selling of human beings |
| Navigation | is the science of determining direction while traveling by sea |
| Renaissance | was a period of time that marked a new beginning in arts and sciences and a desire to learn more about the world |
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