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The European Explorers
key vocabulary from Scott Foresman Building a Nation
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Social Studies
4th Grade
09/30/2014

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Eric the Red
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Early Viking explorer who encouraged Icelanders to move to the new country of Greenland
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sagas
Definition
long spoken tales told by the Vikings
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Renaissance
Definition
a time of great learning in Europe that began about 1350
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Johann Gutenberg
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German inventor of the printing press
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Portugal
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a country led by Prince Henry that took the lead in exploration of new lands
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navigation
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the science of finding your way on the ocean by using the stars
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Bartolomeu Dias
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He looked for a sea route by going down the coast of Africa
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Cape of Good Hope
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The bottom tip of Africa that Dias sailed around
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Vasco da Gama
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He left Portugal and sailed around Africa and made it all the way to India.
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caravan
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a group of travelers that travelled across the desert on camels
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pilgrimage
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a trip or journey taken for religious purposes
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spices
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What Marco Polo and other persons wanted to buy from China.
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Silk Road
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A long journey over many roads from Arabia to China. Merchants travelled it in search of spices and silk.
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