1. Chapter 10 The Age of Exploration Traders & Explorers Lesson 1

2. Marco Polo Italian merchant who spent 25 years in Asia

3. Khanbalik City in china that was unknown to the Europeans

4. Kublai Khan Great Chinese Leader

5. Book written by Marco Polo Ye shall find all kinds of wonderful things!

6. Henry the Navigator Convinced there was an all water route from Europe to the Indies

7. Astronomy Study of planets, stars, & other heavenly bodies

8. Compass Most important instrument of navigation

9. Caravel Sailing ship better suited for rough seas & long voyages

10. Bartholomeu Dias Left Portugal & steered his fleet around the southern tip of Africa – called it the “Cape of Storms”

11. Vasco da Gama Sailed his ships into India

12. Calicut Port in India in which da Gama sailed

13. Christopher Columbus Sails for India, discovers the “new world”

14. Christopher Columbus

15. Chapter 10 The Age of Exploration The Beginning of Modern Science Lesson 2

16. Copernicus Astronomer who believed that the revolved around the sun

17. Geocentric Theory All the planets revolve around the sun

18. Heliocentric Theory The sun is the center of the universe

19. Galileo Developed a way to prove the truth of the Heliocentric Theory

20. Telescope Makes faraway objects appear closer

21. Isaac Newton Offered proof that the earth revolves around the sun

22. Gravity Force that causes objects to be pulled toward the center of the Earth