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| silk road | a series of trade routes between Europe and Asia |
| Marco Polo | Man from Italy who spent 16 years in China |
| Inventions Marco Polo learned | paper, printing and gunpowder |
| Admiral Zheng He | China's leader sent him on many voyages |
| merchant | someone who buys and sells goods to earn money |
| kingdom | a place ruled by a king or queen |
| caravan | a group of people and animals that travel together |
| technology | the use of scientific knowledge and tools to do things better and more rapidly |
| astrolobe | a tool that measures the height of the sun or a star above the horizon. Helped sailors tell how far north or south of home they were |
| profit | the money a business has left over after all of its expenses have been paid |
| Prince Henry | created a school for navigation |
| Bartolomeu Dias | proved it was possible to sail around Africa |
| Vasco da Gama | led the 1st Portugese to India |
| compass | used this tool to find their direction. |
| King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella | paid for Chris Columbus travels to spread Christianity |
| 6 items Columbian Exchange brought from the Eastern Hemisphere | cattle, horses, pigs, sheep, coffee beans, and bananas |
| settlement | a small community of people living in a new place |
| epidemic | an outbreak of disease that spreads quickly and affects many people |
| Magellan | proved the world was round and not flat |
| expedition | a journey to achieve a goal |
| conquistador | Spanish for conquerers |
| empire | many nations or territories ruled by a single group or leader |
| Juan Ponce de Leon | led expedition to Florida |
| Amerigo Vespuci | made voyages to South America and named America |
| Francisco Coronado | led expedition to North America |
| Hernando de Soto | conquistador who conquered and settled Florida |
